Hemafton-US

5 Mars Monday

The world becomes our backyard. It's always great to learn from other cultures and countries. We started off with a lesson by Leo about how the US was found and how Christopher Columbus is referenced in the Book of Mormon. Additionally, words by President Hinckley were cited from his book "Standing for Something" expressing his views and feelings for the USA.

In this evening of events, we got a taste of the U.S. Literally. Sloppy joes and root beer floats were made. The Sisters, Sister Gardner and Sister Lowry, hosted this FHE. They made homemade root beer from scratch! It was difficult to find dry ice. So in lieu of that they used yeast! It tasted actually pretty good especially with vanilla ice cream. Yum! As for food, we had sloppy joes with celery and peanut butter on the side. How excited can you get!

The fun won’t stop there. It wouldn’t be an American BBQ without some games. Traditional games of olden times were brought out: human wheel barrel and potato sack race was used in some relay games. It was a hoot. Probably one of the funniest incidents of the evening was in the wheel barrel race. Karin had Rebecka by the legs and they're going as fast as they can. When they come to the opposite side to turn around and come back for a few feet, they get told they they didn't reach the line and had to go back. So Karin pulls Rebecka by the legs pulling her backwards dragging her face in the court until they reach the line and continued on to finish the race. And on top of that, we got it on video to see it again and again.

It was cool that a friend, Anton, was brought along to share this memorable FHE. Thanks everyone for coming, getting a taste of the US and enjoying yourselves!