Zone Meeting at the Park - March 3, 2015

We had an interesting zone meeting last Tuesday. The zone leaders called and said that we were to meet at the municipal park instead of at the chapel.  So we met at the municipal park by the river that runs through the park.  

Without any explanation, the zone leaders had each companionship make a boat out of materials that were supplied, boxes, bottles, balloons, plastic bags, tongue depressors, etc.  The zone leaders gave everyone a "passenger" -- a raw egg that they had decorated with a face and the branch/district name!  I was pleased that everyone participated, every boat was different, and all the boats were launched and floated.

The one problem was that the zone leaders didn't think about the boats getting away from the missionaries and floating on down the river -- free to ride the rapids!  It was funny to see the missionaries finding a big branch and trying to use it to guide the boats to shore.  It was a very big branch that needed two missionaries to handle it.  But it did get two or so of the boats to shore.  

The purpose of the activity was to illustrate to the missionaries that they need to take care of their investigators (the eggs) and guide them past the shoals and rapids (help them overcome trials and teach them the gospel), and that by the time they get past the shoals the investigators should have a friend, a calling, and teaching.  We lost some of our investigators/boats!  But others will help them down the river.

Chalk up one for the zone leaders for creativity!