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"Purse"onal Relief Society Birthday

by: Erin Rencher

Pursonal Relief Society

Just wanted to quickly share what we did for the RS Birthday party. We used the PURSE theme.

I took a talk about RS from the general authorities and cut it into 25 pieces. I highlighted one word on each piece. I then made a PURSE card (like BINGO) with twenty five blanks..and a FREE Space written in the middle. The highlighted word from each paper was on the top. Each sister got to make her own Purse card by writing the words in any square in any order on the card. They were not to use a word twice and they had one left over because of the FREE space. We passed the purse with the quotes and each sister read the paper, at which time they marked that word on their card.

We had M&M's and Skittles spread down the middle of the tables (looked marvelous) and had the sisters use those for markers! They loved it. The first one to get PURSE got a huge candy bar. After that they were given Hershey's kisses for up to two rows completed. They were having so much fun they went for blackout. It is a great way to have fun and listen to counsel from the authorities at the same time!

I then read the story about purses and choosing them and how we keep looking till we find one we like and some use them till they are worn out and some are multi - purse-onality and have one for every occasion. In the end it turns out talking about how God doesn't go searching for a new person if we aren't what he wants us to be...and he wants to fill us up and doesn't need us to do it all on our own. I got some purse clip art and a picture of Christ off of the internet and showed them pictures...even though we are adults...it was FUN! I made sure to tie it all in to the fact that our sisters in RS before us had different things in their purses, and how thankful we are for them.

I took a purse (from the $1.00 store) and filled it with candy...I made 17 clues that rhymed and put them in a zip lock baggie and taped it to the front of the purse. The first person to find that object in their purse and hold it up got to read the next clue...then it went on for 17 clues and the last person got the purse. It was fun. Some women even dumped the contents of their purse out on the table, so they could be fastest. I had to get three women in the front to look and see who was first. I even had to go so far as to say who had two or three ...etc. The funniest one was the clue to look for the strangest thing...one sister had a water filter in her purse. The sisters were contending to see which item was the strangest...it was just a great time. They had to find grocery list, pictures, scriptures, pills (medicine), glasses, lipstick, gum or candy, etc.

Lastly, we sang "Count Your Many Purses" to the tune of Count your many blessings and had closing prayer and a yummy dinner. Great times were had by all.

I have used the same PURSE game with Visiting Teaching and could adapt it to anything. We made the cards with TEACH on the top, and used a talk by the general authorities! Can be adapted to any subject and have a great time!

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Purse-onal Enrichment Night

By Bennion from the Sand Creek 2nd Ward

This is just another "add too" idea that I did for the "PURSE"-onal enrichment night. I called it: Our PURSE-suit To Happiness!

I used a lot of the other ideas only tweaked it by asking 7 ladies to take 5 minutes or less (and they stuck by it) to talk about the different things that they had in their purse-onal life right now and how the lord has blessed them.

One of our Laurels that is in our relief society and going to school brought her backpack and other things.

Then a divorcee who is now a newlywed talked about her life changing when she did what she was supposed to and how the Lord had blessed her.

Next was a mother with little children and she had decided to stay at home with her kids and not work any longer. She had a diaper bag and talked about all the blessings that she has seen come into her family and herself as a result of staying home.

The next speaker was a sister who became an empty nester this year and her husband was put in as our new bishop. She brought her travel bag filled with things she has to occupy her time now: i.e. travel to see her grandkids, piano books to teach lessons, baby quilts that she has been making, scriptures, etc.

And finally a senior sister, who is now a temple worker spoke to us. She brought her bag with: her temple recommend, photo/history album she has been making for all her grandchildren, and stuff from her mission that she and her husband served in.

I closed by saying that we have a lot of sisters in our ward that have different things in their 'PURSE"-onal lives. Some are half full or empty, and some are overflowing. It doesn't matter where we are, we are all daughters of our Heavenly Father, and he wants us to be happy and to help others be happy. It was a wonderful night.