relief society ward history: a rs birthday celebration

i love being able to attend our ward relief society activities. after being the ward relief society president and knowing what kind of effort (and stress!) go into each and every one of them, i try never to miss a single one as i remember how much i would worry for the entire day that people wouldn't come.

this was an exceptional activity. each year we celebrate the founding of the relief society (march 17th 1842) with an activity to gather the sisters of our wards together. this was a celebration of the sisters of our ward particularly... with photos of all of our past relief society presidents in one of the displays. i was so honoured and incredibly humbled to be counted among these incredible women. i know and love so many of them and would never have expected to be placed alongside them. it is amazing what the lord can do with us when we are ready and willing to serve.

we played relief society bingo, which was an absolute riot. i can never get over how competitive these women can be.

some absolutely beautiful displays showed the talents and hobbies of some of our sisters

and days of relief society in the beginning

and there was a pile of throwback photos from days gone by.

the hall was set up to make us all really feel at home, like we were relaxing in the lounge

and of course when the relief society sister are involved, there is always the best refreshments! 

i truly love being part of the largest womens organisation in the world! ❤

relief society movie night

i love love love it when planning pays off. we had our relief society movie night last night and it went so well! no hiccups, all went according to plan - and everyone enjoyed themselves! woo!

our additional meetings committee had decided to have a movie night, watching the disney produced church movie, the other side of heaven, based on the mission of john groberg to the kingdom of tonga in the 1950's. it is such a wonderful movie, may i suggest you watch it if you haven't already?

we had a full candy bar, complete with lollies, popcorn, drinks and dinner (hotdogs!) which was a huge hit, it was great fun watching everyone get into it before the movie started.

 

one of the lovely men in our ward kindly set up a huuuuuge screen that took up the entire stage in our cultural hall, along with a projector and sound system. apparently he made the screen stand years ago for one of the many parties his kids had. so clever... and how lucky are we to have him on side?

  

yum, dinner!

before the movie began, we were blessed with a performance from a polynesian dance/ drum group that one of the girls from our ward is in. they were amazing, and certainly set the tone for the evening.

the boys doing their thing

and the girls, featuring our aniwa ♥

they even had members of the crowd come and participate in a final dance. it was great and everyone was really into it.

after all that, people got into the candy bar and settled in to watch the movie. 

we had so much good feedback and i am so pleased with how the evening went. definitely one to file away for a possible repeat! ♥