Enrichment Activities

[keianaParticipant]

Thankyou for all the help from this wonderful site.
Just wanted to see how everyone is doing with enrichment activities and find some new and creative ideas for the months ahead.
We’re well on our way with our enrichment activities. The sisters speak often of the love that is developing within our RS auxilliary. In January we met and went through the new guidelines. Only 13 or so sisters turned up but we are slowly increasing our enrichment activities group numbers.
We have cooking, sewing, craft & home decor and health & fitness groups. We meet once a month except our health group who meet weekly for their walk etc.
I have learned so much in the last two months since starting enrichment activities and I am so grateful for this program. I not only have learned so much but have felt an increased love towards our RS sisters. I see the sisters love grow for each other as well.
Our cooking group have cooked choc chip cookies and won tons so far and looking forward to makin sweet and sour next month. Our sewing group have made shorts and skirts and looking forward to making a top next month. These activities have really got me going so much so that I asked my mom to show me how to sew a top, {even before our next sewing enrichment activity} and manage to sew my own pea{pehah) meaning a lavalava and a top. I proudly modelled it on Sunday. This week I am learning how to use glitter and fabric paint to decorate it. Our craft group have make flowers/roses out of flax plants and floral arrangement. These were displayed during our RS fireside as part of our Birthday Celebration. And of course our health group are walking every Saturday.
I am really blessed and feel so overwhelmed with gratitude having had the opportunity to implement this wonderful program in my ward RS.
The sisters increased learning and love for one another truly uplifts me and I look forward to each month now.
I hope and pray you all are having a good time as I am!
By the way, I am the 2nd Counsellor and so I’ve been so busy because I have not had an enrichment leader for awhile, infact, she just got called two Sundays ago so I’m glad to hand things over to her and relax a bit. Just a bit. We’ve also had our first Enrichment Meeting for the first quarter where I taught the sisters how to do mosaic (with tiles) It was fun and all the sisters enjoyed it and were delighted with the coasters they made at the end of the day. Would love to read what your ward is doing! Thanks

[Jenny SmithParticipant]

Our unit is getting started slowly. We’re doing a number of mini-classes that include:

* Pruning/Gardening
* Beginning Internet (betcha can’t guess who’s teaching THAT one)
* Intermediate/Advanced Internet (Me again)
* Canning Jam
* Parenting Class
* Hair/Makeup
* Crochet (for edging burp rags, etc)

and a bunch of others I can’t remember off the top of my head. :)

We’re usually holding just one of these per month, and it’s up to the teacher of the lesson to determine when she (or he) would like to hold it so that it can fit with the teacher’s schedule and hopefully those in the class.

We’re hoping to organize support groups for the single/divorced women in our unit and for the older women in the ward. Those groups will be responsible for coming up with ideas that will suit their needs.

We’ve also organized a babysitting swap for when sisters go Visiting Teaching, and may organize a playgroup, too.

Pruning and Gardening was last week and had an attendance of 6. I think those low-sounding numbers are to be expected for these types of activities. It’s taken a lot of work on the part of our Enrichment Counselor and Enrichment Leader to get stuff going, but I think eventually it will actually serve the needs of sisters better AND be less work for the presidency.

I hope we can get some of the less active sisters and non-member neighbors to come out for these activities to begin feeling the unique socilizing LDS women enjoy.

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