we had an excellent additional relief society meeting this evening at the chapel, "when life gives you lemons." i've done it before when i was in the relief society presidency in our old ward years ago, we had such good feedback about it and i enjoyed it so much, that i decided to do it again!
i have always been someone who gets super excited when someone offers me lemons. like i jump at the chance to take them. lemonade, lemon cake, lemon and honey... lemons excite me. so when i was browsing pinterest and saw the idea of making it into an evening with the relief society, i thought hey why not?!
we invited the sisters in our ward along to the activity in which the would be educated about the benefits of lemons. we had four people assigned to give a short presentation on the evening about:
-lemons for health
-lemons in cooking
-lemons in the home
-what to do when life gives you lemons (the power of positive thinking)
we had lemonade, lemon infused water and lemon herbal tea bags on offer for afterwards
and had invited the sisters to bring a lemon flavoured (or not) treat to share. so much lemon, i loved it!
we had a good time decorating too, and one of the sneaky girls that was helping did this. i lost it laughing every time i looked!
decorations were simple, reused the honeycomb "pineapples" from madeline's birthday last year, but added a leaf this time instead of a crown...
lots of yellow! yellow paper chains, streamers, tablecloth, flowers...
and these adorable candles, which we gave as a gift to those who had presented on the evening.
best of all, we had two very generous ladies bring baskets of lemons to enable those attending the evening to take some home and put all the tips to good use.
it was such a fun night. i love seeing the end result and everything working out. makes it all worth the effort. ♥
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