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Primary Depot
Shared by: Karen Mendenhall
Our Auxiliary Meeting went fantastic. We used the
Primary Depot theme. We decorated with two ladders and a wood plank in between.
On the plank we had used paint cans that we had made labels for (faith,
testimony, love, train, encourage, create, etc) also some tools from the shed.
We all wore the little orange aprons donated to us by Home Depot and had
everyone put their names on them. We sat everyone according to their
calling. All presidents in one section etc. We included Nursery and Music
this time. Each section had little signs for them on dowel sticks in cans
with concrete. The cans were just vegggie cans sprayed black. One of our 11 year
old scouts made them for us as his service project for 2nd class rank in
scouting. After our opening where I talked about the Home Depot
Perspectives as they correlate with the Primary Depot perspectives ( I got
them off the
Home Depot webpage) I turned time over to our resident building contractor
(high councilor over primary) he did a cute analogy and dressed a PP as a
builder, tool belt and all and talked about proper tools for every job,
qualified people, and a quality product. It was fun, the Stake PP all wore
orange hard hats donated by a local
contactor for that night. We sang the new CSMP song as it went along with
the building a strong primary theme. Then we dismissed them to their
'construction sites' (workshops specific to their calling) and told them since
they are 'Union Workers' we needed to make sure they got a break. We had
homemade cinnamon rolls in the white styrofoam containers (Costoco) and hot
chocolate/hot cider in Gott Coolers for them to drink. We had the hot cups
w/lids like Starbucks (also from Costco) then they went to training. It was
really great and we had a
lot of positive feed back. We had 97% attendance and this was in conflict with
the stake semi-final football game for the high school, pretty impressive. Our
invites were in a large mainilla enveope w/ a hammer for the president and the
counselors, nursery, music all had nails on their "Come to the Primary Depot and
let us help you build a
strong primary by nailing your calling!" So much fun!
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