Enrichment Night

Tonight was a BLAST! For any of you looking for an idea for enrichment night in your own church's (I use the word church because some people are non mormons and they could do it too if they wanted ) but then I guess it wouldn't be called enrichment night. Anywho...we had what was called a "service auction". Everybody brought a service. For example: a homemade meal, a coupon for babysitting, homemade cards. I brought a crafty sign that said HOME is where they love you. I have to say that lots of people liked my "service" so I was glad. It wasn't that much service so I feel like I should have done more, but anyway... Then what we did was well ate of course....delish food!! I brought a strawberry margarita squares. They were ok. There was a really good salad though and it's going to be on my cooking blog really soon (when I get my hands on the recipe). I will post the Strawberry margarita squares soon too though. Anyways...so after eating, what we did was they determined ahead of time a list of ways you could receive "points" or "money". So they read the list and for each thing you did, you got 5 points or more depending on what it was. For example, if you read your scriptures daily, you get 5 points, if you attended 4 sacrament meetings last month, 5 points. Um, 5 points for each child you have. etc etc. The list went on for a while. There was lots of creative stuff. Things that you should be doing to better yourselves basically. So then after we tallied our points, then the auction began. There was some fun stuff there. None of which I could "afford". The advantage is in being older because you have more children, and lots of other stuff too. But then again, that's just a good excuse for why I stunk at auctioning for what I wanted! ha haa! I ended up getting some cute homemade cards that someone had made. 8 of them. It was nice! There was lots of babysitting, and food. Loaves of bread. Etc etc. It was great fun. We laughed and joked and had a great time trying to bid for what we wanted. Everyone had a stick thing to wave for our bid, and someone's husband did the bidding for us. So anyway, I just thought I'd share my idea. I thought it was super fun and a good way to mingle and get to see other people's talents but also to focus a lot on service. Doing something for someone else. Some more idea for "services" were Crochet lessons, homemade jewelry, piano lessons, food storage binder with recipes and helps for how to use random food storage ingredients, and scrapbook pages. Some more ideas for points are if you've done visiting teaching this month, visited a sister in need, visited someone in a hospital in the last year. Attended the temple, and points based on how many times in the last year. So it was a lot of fun! It also helped me to think about the things I have and haven't done lately. It's amazing how a YEAR can sneak by you before you go to the temple again. CRAZY!! One was if I've bore my testimony to anyone in the last year. I don't believe I have. Someone said well you do every week when you teach primary and then the sad reality came to me that I don't even do that. I teach my lesson but I never actually explain to them how thankful I am for Jesus Christ and the atonement and that I have this wonderful gospel in my life. So I enjoyed it fully. It was a fun night! Have a GREAT WEEKEND!!! Mine is busily packed with plans. Which I like! So I'll talk to ya on Sunday probably. Have fun!

Comments

[Jenn]

How Crazy!!! My mom had the exact same enrichment activity this last week! And she called me up all excited about how much fun it was and totally loved it! So it must be a fun activity! I think it sounds fun anyways. Glad you had such a good time!

[Krista Watts]

Jackie, I just love that idea. It really does make you think about what you have done to better yourself. Thank you so much for sharing it with me. Hope you guys are doing well. Love ya... Krista