Tonight for mutual, the theme was the seventh article of faith. The Beehives were in charge of this one (I'm still one until Oct. 18...). At first we thought about having some people who know about different languages and cultures come talk to us. *yawn* It sounded pretty lame but we didn't know what to do for the "gift of tongues". But then, our wonderful leader, Emily, asked her wonderful husband, whose name escapes me, what we should do. He said that since it said tongues, prophesy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth, we should play bigger or better because since we got the gift of tongues, we get to use it to do other bigger and better things too and get more gifts or something. So, that's what we did.
So after the announcements I went up (I felt like I was shining because my hair was really straight and pretty, Matt Wilcox said he liked my hair!!!!) and said something like:
Me: So our activity is based on the seventh article of faith 'we believe in the gift of tongues, prophesy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth' or something like that
Other peoples: yeah along those lines... you're good...
Jill: I didn't know that it said 'or something like that' in it
Me: well that's the revised Celeste Black version, anyway so we are going to play bigger or better...
Other peoples: are you serious?... cool!!...
Adam: it's bigger and better
Me: no, it's bigger or better because one time these boys came over and they were playing bigger and better and they had this ginormous fish tank... but anyway it's bigger OR better
(more talking that I can't remember)
Me: So Lori divided us all into four groups and we'll have 25 minutes to go around and play in your assigned area of the neighborhood. Then you need to get back to the church and each team will have 5 minutes to come up with a 2 minute skit that has to do with your item.
Ryan: can I be on a team?
Other peoples: no, go home Ryan
Me: Hey Lori, do you want me to give the instructions?
Lori: oh yes, do that
Me: Ok, so you go to a house, knock on the door. Don't ring if they have little kids because then they start crying and parents get mad. Then say 'Hey we're playing a game, and we were wondering if you had anything bigger or better than this' and you show them your item.
Ryan: Can we say that we're part of a mutual group? Because then they might give us better stuff.
Other peoples: yeah, whatever you want
(Lori then gave me an example of our beginning gift which was a small piece of hard candy)
Me: Oooh, what flavor is it? (*laughter from room* I didn't mean to be funny, I was serious...) Oh never mind, so this is your beginning gift.
After that the leaders went up and said who was in their group. I think ours was the coolest. We then all walked to our part in the neighborhood. We had Jill and Lori as leaders, then we had me (obviously), Ryan, Porscha, Packer boy, Becca, Mason, Kayla, Karlie, and the Barlow guy whose name aslo escapes me even though I should know his name. There's probably someone else, but I can't think right now.
We went to the first house and knocked. We traded the small candy for a gross salty nut bar or something. We then went to the next which was the Hansen's. At first Mike just gave us his cat which all of the girls including me gathered around and started cooing over. He then came back and gave us a box of something else. We took this to the McMullins and got a bag of marshmallows.
While we were waiting for the McMullins, however, I saw a group across the street at my house. They were looking in my dad's garage while he looked for something. He gave them one of our messed up bloody mannequinheads Mom used to practice hair on. I started yelling at Dad not to because I really like her. Her name is Sabrina.
We went to my new sunday school teacher's house, and she gave us a quilting stand thing. She didn't want the marshmallows though so Porscha took it and we tried to take it from her to eat it. We went to Porscha's house to get something else and got this thing that hangs that looks like a patriotic hat with a scary face on it and ribbon stuff hanging down. Her little brother started to run after it trying to get the marshmallows from her like some of us. We took the weird patriotic thing over to the Fulk's and waited while Joy's older sister tried to find something. She was taking a long time so Porscha ran over next door to Ryan's house and tried to trade the marshmallows for something. She got a dead potted plant. Joye's older sister ended up not having anything. We ran to the next houses but no one was there. We were running out of time so we ran to Trish Packer's. She was going to give us her dog if we promised to give it back, but Jill said no. She gave us a giant zucchini but didn't want the plant but took the marshmallows. We started going down the street because our time was pretty much up. We saw this group in front of us and they had a mattress. We all looked at our zucchini and knew we were in trouble. We ran full speed to Ethan's house and talked to his dad. Karlie (Ashley's friend) asked if we could take the garbage can if we brought it back. He said yes, so she started dragging it up this hill towards the church. I got the weird patriotic thing and wore it as a hat because it was cool, and Ryan had fun with the zucchini. I don't remember what happened to the potted plant. It took a while to drag the garbage can all the way up that hill, cross the main road, and get it into the church building. We put it in the gym with all of the others.
One group had a canoe (holy cow, who gave them that?!), one had a mattress, and one had a wheel barrel and the head (Sabrina). It looks like no one wanted the head. People thought it was pretty weird that we dragged Ethan's trash can up there.
So after the announcements I went up (I felt like I was shining because my hair was really straight and pretty, Matt Wilcox said he liked my hair!!!!) and said something like:
Me: So our activity is based on the seventh article of faith 'we believe in the gift of tongues, prophesy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth' or something like that
Other peoples: yeah along those lines... you're good...
Jill: I didn't know that it said 'or something like that' in it
Me: well that's the revised Celeste Black version, anyway so we are going to play bigger or better...
Other peoples: are you serious?... cool!!...
Adam: it's bigger and better
Me: no, it's bigger or better because one time these boys came over and they were playing bigger and better and they had this ginormous fish tank... but anyway it's bigger OR better
(more talking that I can't remember)
Me: So Lori divided us all into four groups and we'll have 25 minutes to go around and play in your assigned area of the neighborhood. Then you need to get back to the church and each team will have 5 minutes to come up with a 2 minute skit that has to do with your item.
Ryan: can I be on a team?
Other peoples: no, go home Ryan
Me: Hey Lori, do you want me to give the instructions?
Lori: oh yes, do that
Me: Ok, so you go to a house, knock on the door. Don't ring if they have little kids because then they start crying and parents get mad. Then say 'Hey we're playing a game, and we were wondering if you had anything bigger or better than this' and you show them your item.
Ryan: Can we say that we're part of a mutual group? Because then they might give us better stuff.
Other peoples: yeah, whatever you want
(Lori then gave me an example of our beginning gift which was a small piece of hard candy)
Me: Oooh, what flavor is it? (*laughter from room* I didn't mean to be funny, I was serious...) Oh never mind, so this is your beginning gift.
After that the leaders went up and said who was in their group. I think ours was the coolest. We then all walked to our part in the neighborhood. We had Jill and Lori as leaders, then we had me (obviously), Ryan, Porscha, Packer boy, Becca, Mason, Kayla, Karlie, and the Barlow guy whose name aslo escapes me even though I should know his name. There's probably someone else, but I can't think right now.
We went to the first house and knocked. We traded the small candy for a gross salty nut bar or something. We then went to the next which was the Hansen's. At first Mike just gave us his cat which all of the girls including me gathered around and started cooing over. He then came back and gave us a box of something else. We took this to the McMullins and got a bag of marshmallows.
While we were waiting for the McMullins, however, I saw a group across the street at my house. They were looking in my dad's garage while he looked for something. He gave them one of our messed up bloody mannequinheads Mom used to practice hair on. I started yelling at Dad not to because I really like her. Her name is Sabrina.
We went to my new sunday school teacher's house, and she gave us a quilting stand thing. She didn't want the marshmallows though so Porscha took it and we tried to take it from her to eat it. We went to Porscha's house to get something else and got this thing that hangs that looks like a patriotic hat with a scary face on it and ribbon stuff hanging down. Her little brother started to run after it trying to get the marshmallows from her like some of us. We took the weird patriotic thing over to the Fulk's and waited while Joy's older sister tried to find something. She was taking a long time so Porscha ran over next door to Ryan's house and tried to trade the marshmallows for something. She got a dead potted plant. Joye's older sister ended up not having anything. We ran to the next houses but no one was there. We were running out of time so we ran to Trish Packer's. She was going to give us her dog if we promised to give it back, but Jill said no. She gave us a giant zucchini but didn't want the plant but took the marshmallows. We started going down the street because our time was pretty much up. We saw this group in front of us and they had a mattress. We all looked at our zucchini and knew we were in trouble. We ran full speed to Ethan's house and talked to his dad. Karlie (Ashley's friend) asked if we could take the garbage can if we brought it back. He said yes, so she started dragging it up this hill towards the church. I got the weird patriotic thing and wore it as a hat because it was cool, and Ryan had fun with the zucchini. I don't remember what happened to the potted plant. It took a while to drag the garbage can all the way up that hill, cross the main road, and get it into the church building. We put it in the gym with all of the others.
One group had a canoe (holy cow, who gave them that?!), one had a mattress, and one had a wheel barrel and the head (Sabrina). It looks like no one wanted the head. People thought it was pretty weird that we dragged Ethan's trash can up there.
While we were thinking of our skit, some people pointed out that Ethan's house wasn't in our area so we were disqualified. Jill said that she didn't know and forgot to check but it's okay. They said it wasn't. I got mad, so I said "Hey, I'm President Black of the Beehives, and I say that we're not disqualified!" They didn't bug us after that. It was, afterall, the Beehives who came up with this activity. The leaders are just advisors, but I am the boss.
We thought of a skit and then performed it.
The first group with the canoe had a guy pretending to be a tree, and another guy pretending to be a bird in the tree.
Tree: *just stood there*
Bird (Mitch): caw! caw!
People on canoe: wow! Look at that tree! That's a cool bird!
Sariah: does anyone know a good joke?
Adam: I do, okay, knock-knock
Ethan: who's there?
Adam: canoe
Ethan: canoe who?
Adam: canoe think of a good joke about a canoe or boat?
Everyone: hahahaha!
(if you don't get it say it out loud)
Then next group had the mattress. All of the people except the leaders got on and started chanting/singing/whatever you call it: "Eight little monkeys jumping on the bed. One fell off and broke it's head. The momma called the doctor and the doctor said: no more monkeys jumping on the bed! Seven little monkeys..." They kept on getting confused on what number they were on, so it was even funnier.
The next group I didn't hear anything, but what I saw is that Kaleb (a short deacon) ran with the wheel barrel, stopped, said something, and took Sabrina out of the wheel barrel and threw it. This other deacon caught it and was a bit shocked to see he was holding a head. It was still funny.
Ours is Jill was in the front of our line and she walked on and started doing what I can't really say was a rap, but we were copying her. It was so funny though. She would say: "We are cool" "You are dirt" "You are scum" "We are the best" "You are dumb" and we would just copy her and pretend to be rapping. Mason then ran on with the huge trash can and said "Hey! No trash talking!" and he opened the trash and we all fell to the ground with our hands over our noses. It was great.
Heather then wrapped everything up and we had creamies. We got some guy's jacket and put it on Ashley Roylance so it was pretty big on her, and we zipped and buttoned it so you couldn't see her head. We then put the Sabrina head on her head and put the hood on and had her walk around like that. It was so hilarious and some people even took pictures on their cell phones. It was a bit creepy though. I then carried Sabrina everywhere with me and had her kiss all of the boys. They probably thought that I was weird or something. Oh well.
A lot of them asked where we got her, and I said that Mom was cutting her hair and I pointed out how it was a lovely, tangly, bloody, curly, mullet and that Mom was doing a great jog cutting it, but then she accidentally stabbed Sabrina in the head with the scissors and that's why she had blood everywhere. I then told them that Mom used mannequins (is that how you spell that?) to practice doing hair on when she went to beauty school.
They said that she was creepy and gross and some even said that she was ugly! I asked them if they would say the same thing if I got hurt and was all bloody like her. Jill said that she's tell me to clean my face, and the rest just said no. I thought so, so be nice to her!
It was super fun and my dad was glad to have Sabrina back. Combined young men and young women is so much fun! One time we did this faith walk, but I kinda ran into a tree. Oops. Matt said he liked my hair!
We thought of a skit and then performed it.
The first group with the canoe had a guy pretending to be a tree, and another guy pretending to be a bird in the tree.
Tree: *just stood there*
Bird (Mitch): caw! caw!
People on canoe: wow! Look at that tree! That's a cool bird!
Sariah: does anyone know a good joke?
Adam: I do, okay, knock-knock
Ethan: who's there?
Adam: canoe
Ethan: canoe who?
Adam: canoe think of a good joke about a canoe or boat?
Everyone: hahahaha!
(if you don't get it say it out loud)
Then next group had the mattress. All of the people except the leaders got on and started chanting/singing/whatever you call it: "Eight little monkeys jumping on the bed. One fell off and broke it's head. The momma called the doctor and the doctor said: no more monkeys jumping on the bed! Seven little monkeys..." They kept on getting confused on what number they were on, so it was even funnier.
The next group I didn't hear anything, but what I saw is that Kaleb (a short deacon) ran with the wheel barrel, stopped, said something, and took Sabrina out of the wheel barrel and threw it. This other deacon caught it and was a bit shocked to see he was holding a head. It was still funny.
Ours is Jill was in the front of our line and she walked on and started doing what I can't really say was a rap, but we were copying her. It was so funny though. She would say: "We are cool" "You are dirt" "You are scum" "We are the best" "You are dumb" and we would just copy her and pretend to be rapping. Mason then ran on with the huge trash can and said "Hey! No trash talking!" and he opened the trash and we all fell to the ground with our hands over our noses. It was great.
Heather then wrapped everything up and we had creamies. We got some guy's jacket and put it on Ashley Roylance so it was pretty big on her, and we zipped and buttoned it so you couldn't see her head. We then put the Sabrina head on her head and put the hood on and had her walk around like that. It was so hilarious and some people even took pictures on their cell phones. It was a bit creepy though. I then carried Sabrina everywhere with me and had her kiss all of the boys. They probably thought that I was weird or something. Oh well.
A lot of them asked where we got her, and I said that Mom was cutting her hair and I pointed out how it was a lovely, tangly, bloody, curly, mullet and that Mom was doing a great jog cutting it, but then she accidentally stabbed Sabrina in the head with the scissors and that's why she had blood everywhere. I then told them that Mom used mannequins (is that how you spell that?) to practice doing hair on when she went to beauty school.
They said that she was creepy and gross and some even said that she was ugly! I asked them if they would say the same thing if I got hurt and was all bloody like her. Jill said that she's tell me to clean my face, and the rest just said no. I thought so, so be nice to her!
It was super fun and my dad was glad to have Sabrina back. Combined young men and young women is so much fun! One time we did this faith walk, but I kinda ran into a tree. Oops. Matt said he liked my hair!
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