Farewell Party
We are moving to yet another apartment. This one is supposed to be permanent, at least until we leave the Philippines. Our ward had a Family Home Evening at our house. We had about a dozen people come over. We sang a song, had a prayer, had a lesson, played some games, then had dinner. Jack had made macaroni and cheese, sweet and sour chicken, and salad. I had bought a cake for dessert. American cooking at its best. They seemed pleasantly pleased with it.
The lesson and games were fun. I will see if I can explain it. First they had everyone say something easy they want their neighbor to the right to do. There were things like dance, sing a song, do jumping jacks, drink water, etc. Jack wanted me to do tree pose for 30 seconds. I wanted Elder Tantarat to pat his head and rub his stomach. We went around the circle and told what we wanted our neighbor to do. Our bishop is military so the Elders' Quorum president, Raymond, wanted him to do one handed push-ups. We then read Luke 6:31. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. We then had to do what we wanted our neighbor to do. That was fun. When we got to the EQ prsident, he couldn't do a push-up. The bishop stepped in and said he would do it for him. It was a great eample of the atonement in action!
We then played two games. Indi-Ian Pow. The leader would tap either his left or right shoulder and say Indi. Whichever should he tapped, the play would move that way to the neighbor who would tap one of his shoulders and say Ian. The neighbor on the side he tapped would then point at someone in the circle and say Pow. Whoever he/she pointed at had to pat their head and their stomach while saying "ding-ding-ding". Their two neighbors would then have to say"hahahah" while tapping their mouth. The "ding" person would then start the next round. It was fun to watch people try to keep up
The second game was a clapping game. You slap your knees twice than clap your hand. Each person would have an individual hand gesture. The leader would do their personal hand gesture on the clap. Then someone else's hand gesture on the next clap. The person whose hand gesture was done would then do their hand gesture on the next clap and someone else's on the clap after that. It would keep going around. it was funny to see people trying to recognize their sign and remembering another sign.
The missionaries have to know all kinds of fun games. I appreciate that they like to take selfies. That's the only way I got pictures. At the end of the night, they all crowded into the elevetator to go home.
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