Wearing all white for activities / Airplane crash activity

[Anonymous UserParticipant]

I agree. We have been told not to use this one.

[Anonymous UserParticipant]

I saw the Q&A about the airplane skit and thought I would sent you a little note. I am in the YW Presidency in my ward. I had the idea of teaching our youth about the Plan of Salvation. For a moment I remembered something like the Flight 227 done for us when I was in mutual, they did not wear white though.
Anyway my thought is that Flight 227 was a way of showing what may happen to us after this life. People looking for this skit are looking for a creative and memorable way of teaching this principle. However, there are other ways to teach the Plan of Salvation. If you are interested I made a Plan of Salvation board game. We used different colored candies as pawns and 2 dice. By rolling a 1 or 6 you are Born, Earth Life has spaces to move through, you have to get the exact number at the end then you die and move to the Spirit World. It is doctrinely sound. I think I even had scriptures to go with the different steps we make on our journey. I hope this was not a waste of your time.
Sincerely, Amy

[Jennifer SmithKeymaster]

I am not certain that I feel okay with the idea of “rolling a dice” to get through the degrees of glory. For me, it’s not okay to perpetuate the idea that our circumstance at the end of this life is based on chance.

Do what you like — people always do — but for me, if you’re just looking to keep student attention, I think the play dough plan of salvation activities are better. Here are several Plan of Salvation activities.

[H. Berkheimer]

I love this discussion. When I was in the youth program, we participated in the plane crash activity. It made me uncomfortable. I felt my emotions were being manipulated. As I have served in YW as an adult, this activity was never suggested. Maybe it fell out of favor, thankfully. However, one year at a girls camp in Virginia that I attended as a leader, there was an activity where Priesthood came rushing into a meeting we were having and told the YW to go pack their things so that we could all go to the Stake building and join their families because we had been told by the Prophet that it was time to gather in Missouri. My daughter had a non member friend at camp with her. The friend thought that we were all crazy. I was concerned for the YW who were clearly believing this and were very emotional. I remember a couple of the YW in my care started crying and saying that their fathers were out to sea, or deployed in the military and that they were worried their fathers would be killed. It was horrible. I whispered to the YW in my Ward that this was just a play, a dramatization. Many of the leaders were shocked by this event and spoke to the camp director about how wrong it was.
I now find myself living in a different part of the country, and just las week a brother in Sunday School talked about how he, as a YM, and 30 years ago. had this same experience . He talked about how wonderful the experience was and how today he wonders if the same thing happened, who would and who would not answer the call to go to Missouri.
My question is, has the Church made any “Official” declarations about this type of activity? Who,e it is somewhat different than the “plane crash” activity, I feel that this still uses an extreme form of the manipulation of people’s emotions to make a point. What does anyone know about this? Is this an acceptable activity? I appreciate any input on this.

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