Elder and Sister Blattman’s Missionary Weekly Journal
July 5, 2011
July 5, 2011
The 4th of July is well celebrated here in the birthplace of the constitution. We considered going downtown to the big parades, reenactments, and crowds but then chose to go local and watch a parade in our township. We left out any photos of what seemed to be hundreds of fire trucks.
The costumes are pretty wild on the two groups that must be part of the ‘Mummers Parade’ later on this year in Philadelphia.
Stake President Corbitt, from the Cherry Hill New Jersey Stake was our speaker in summer seminary today. He came and had lunch with the kids, joked around, and got to know them a little. Then he left and came back dressed up as Joseph Smith. His costume was great and it really grabbed the kid's attention. Then he played a game where the kids took their new scriptures and could look up and read any verse in the Doctrine and Covenants and he had to guess the section. If he missed they got a point and if he guessed the section correctly he got a point. First to five wins. The rule was also that he could ask them to read the verse before and the verse after if necessary. He won 5 to 3. Then he went back into character and recited section 1 as if the Prophet was dictating it to a scribe while we read along. The kids loved it.
2 comments:
for those of you who are wondering what the heck is a mummer parade: http://mummers.com/
these pics sort of reminded me of the circa 1980 Disneyland parade photos we have on slides...does any one else know what I am talking about?
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