Girl Fun!

One of my responsibilities as second counselor in the Relief Society Presidency is to oversee Enrichment. On March 11, 2008 we had our Relief Society Birthday Dinner. Here are a few highlights. Our theme was "Make us one" and we used purses to illustrate the theme.


This was the box the invitation came in.

This was the invitation. It was a little paper purse, with a candy purse handle. When you opened up the invitation all the information about the event was inside. We told sisters to bring their purses. To entice the sisters to be on time we had a drawing for two TOTALLY cute purses that were given to us by a man in our Ward who designs all the bags for Franklin Covey. At exactly 6:31 p.m. we cut off the chance to enter the drawing. Our motivation worked and we had about 50 people who arrived on time.

We invited the Young Women to join us so we set up for 72 and filled every chair, much to our surprise. Each table had a different theme associated with purses, such as one table had little purses, like a teenage girl would carry, another table had big mom purses, another table had church bags. In total we had 9 table with different purse themes.

We served dinner and talked and visited. Then we played games. One game we played that was really fun was a game where everyone at the table pulled items out of their purse that started with the letter "r." From our table we chose the person who had the most random item starting with "r" and they had to go up front. The whole audience voted on who had the most random item, and the winner was a sister with a Roman coin (a reproduction of course) in her purse. A close second was a recipe box.

After the games I gave a short presentation about notable past Relief Society sisters and showed what type of a bag they might have carried. My favorite was a pink purse filled with big curlers and Aqua Net hairspray to represent the bag of former general Relief Society president Barbara B. Smith. To conclude we asked five sisters who were at different states of their lives to show the purse they carry and talk about the value of Relief Society. It was a great evening and I was home by 8:45 p.m. thanks to a wonderful committee!