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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Youth Confrence 2008-Day 3

The last day of youth confrence was spent with the 12 and 13 year olds. As the kids arrived, they ate breakfast and we got ready to play some fun games. We played a game called spider web where you had to team up and pass all your team mates through an opening on the spider web without touching the rope, trees, or crawling underneath the web. The last person to go through the spider web ran and then jumped as high as he could through one of the openings, with the rest of the youth on the other side of the spider web to catch him. All the teams were able to do this and get everyone through without toching the ropes.. It was a perfect get-to-know you activity because every group had kids from different wards and they had to work together and be creative to perform the task.







Another game played was this rock game. We told the youth to go find a rock, didn't matter what size or shape. So we had some come back with huge rocks and others with medium and also small rocks. Then you let them know that all the team members had to cross on each rock and you had to work as a team in order to balance people on the smaller rocks. It was tons of fun.



After these two games we had a speaker, Elder Lee, an area authority who actually spoke at our Stake Confrence.





While the speaker was going on, we set up for the water games. We played "Do you Love Your Neighbor?" but with a sprinkler in the middle of the circle so when the kids got up to switch chairs they had to run through it. We played some other games and then let them run loose with cups and hoses. We gave both the girls and the boys a trash can full of water so they can all take their cups and have a water fight. It turned out so much fun, they were going crazy and I just stood back to avoid getting wet.








After the water games the kids went home, ate, and then returned around 3:00pm to watch the slide show of all the accumilated pictures from the previous days, and we ended our confrence with a wonderful testimony meeting. The entire event was a great growth opportunity for all of us.

1 comment:

Emily said...

How fun. I remember playing some of those games! It looks like Youth Conference was a huge success.