Our Branch President scheduled a Friday night Family Home Evening/Young Adult Meeting. The ones that came watched a movie while the young adult group met to make plans for a couple of activities and talk about how we are going to get our group numbers up. The island Branch is spread out and most of the young adults do not have cars so it makes getting together hard for them. Many of them must take the bus to get to church or anything else. The pictures here are not good quality. We were using Mike's camera and didn't have on the flash, so when I lightened them they were washed out but are still valuable.
After the meeting we played a fun tie game while waiting for the movie to end. You stand in a circle with two ties going in different directions. One tie has to be tied in one loop and the other in two loops and then you clap once and pass it on. The last one holding the tie when the opposite direction finishes has to do some command like dance or crawl backwards. We had a lot of fun. The missionaries were with us.
This is Elder Anderson, one of our young elders having fun with us. The girl Valerie Mendoza is applying to BYU this year.
Our other missionary, Elder Cloward, is dressing up one of the children in a tie and his name tag to be a missionary. Luis Illecas is looking on. He plans to put in his own missionary papers soon.
Valerie Linares is our Young Adult President. She is a wonderful young lady of 22, the Primary President also, and goes to school, riding the bus 35 miles away. We are amazed at her spirit and dedication to the gospel.
The movie group, enjoying the food. I made a huge layered bean dip, which they were suspect of at first but ended up eating all of it. I was also able to make a cake and some cookies in my new mini-oven.
This is Maria Villalba and her daughter Aurora . They are eating Paella made by her husband Brother Villalobos who is in the District Presidency. (The women in Spain keep their maiden names) Brother Villalobos is responsible for getting us here. Maria teaches children English in elementary school so she is a great asset to me.
It looks like your first activity went very well and was enjoyed by all. You are surely in your comfort zone as you continue to cook good meals and treats.
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