VTU...

8.27.13
I have served on our ward's Relief Society Committee since we became a ward last year.  It is so fun to plan the activities for the "Additional Relief Society Meetings" aka Homemaking aka Enrichment. I work with a great group of women who are very talented.  When we first started planning this activity back in April we were super excited for it.  We wanted to have an activity centered around Visiting Teaching, but not make it boring.  One sister, Rochelle, had had something similar to this in a previous ward and had saved all the papers from it! Win! We worked through the summer getting things prepped and once we got back from all our trips we began putting the final arrangements together.  I didn't get a picture of all of us in our VTU shirts, but they turned out cute.  I made about a dozen for the night.  {And I have to make a note for me, I gave a talk in church two days before this so I had a busy couple of weeks. }

Finally, the day came and we met to set up early.  I left after an hour to deal with my crazy boys. But the transformation was awesome. Here are some pictures of the set up...

 As they came in the foyer there was Registration.  We broke the table up by last name.  The tables were manned by our VT supervisors.  When you checked in they gave you a packet with some essentials for the night; class schedule, pen, ruler handout, VT roster (I will take a picture of it). As well as a current VTing route.

 In the cultural hall we had long tables set up like desks.  We covered them with white butcher paper.

 We used the bell to "change classes"rather than move every few minutes we stayed in the same place the entire time.

 The jars were filled with school supplies, erasers, crayons, glue, pencils, pens etc.  Other than the jars I brought from home, (which Boss broke a lid to, geez that kid!) all the contents were donated.

 This was the refreshments table and  the area where we collected donations.  I really should have taken a picture after because it was filled to the brim with paper, backpacks, crayons and other essentials.  The Young Women in our ward will now put the items into the backpacks and then we will take them to a local charity we work with.

 These might have been my favorite part of the night.  The "refreshments." Heidi ran the bags through the printer to put our logo on.  Inside we had fruit leather, chips, a homemade granola bar and a lunch sack note.

 I mean come on, how cute???

 Here was our PE area, and below was our Teacher's desk.

We had the following class schedule:
Orientation, the Pledge, a cheer by our very own VTU cheerleaders, History, P.E., Statistics, Film, Communications, Study Hall and Choir.  Each class was just a few minutes long and was taught by a member of either the RS committee, RS VT supervisor or someone in the RS presidency.

 Some of our lovely supervisors, Jamie, Margaret, Scarlett (below) Julia, RaeChelle

 Barbara gave the welcome.  She is one of the co-heads of the committee (and you can see the t-shirts I made in this picture)

 Nothing will sadden me more for a while than the fact that I didn't video this cheer.  Brittany wrote it and it was about our ward and how visiting teaching is never done.  Best cheer squad ever (Angela, Brittany, Amanda, Alli, Sarah) Thanks for keeping those cheer skills sharp ladies!

 During Scarlett's PE class we had to stretch and get warmed up for the game we played.

 Scar leading the stretching.  She got roped into teaching this class because she's my friend, hopefully she still is :) She did amazing.

 At the end of the game here were our three winners- their prize? Doing everyone else's VTing.  Ha ha.

 Donna and Marge taught statistics and we even had a pop quiz.  Luckily the answers were in the packet.

 After watching a funny film on how NOT to visit teach, Jamie taught us about the importance of good communications with an old fashion game of telephone.

Great job Jamie. I got to be the Choir Director (I led the songs) and the Ecclesiastic Professor (I said the closing prayer).  It was a fun night, we had an amazing turnout, and now we are ready to plan our Christmas program!