For months our senior sister missionaries have been meeting behind closed doors in secret meetings to put together a specialized training session for all of our missionaries. Topics to cover: budgeting, cooking nutrious meals, exercising and emergency preparedness.
Our goal: Make it informational, make it fun, make it stick!
We enlisted the help of some of our missionaries and worked with them for a several weeks. They taught the four mini-classes at the beginning of the session. They were anything but boring. Our Super Missionary (Elder Breese) periodically came on the giant screen with a special hint or message. After the classes the challenge began. Each companionship was on a team with four other missionaries. They had to complete one activity in each category, including doing 15 minutes of exercises and recreating the recipe they saw demonstrated during the cooking mini-class. We had teams running all over the place. Along the way the could earn Super Clue cards. At the end we had a mock emergency and timed to see which zone could actually complete their phone tree first. When the president's phone rang--members from the winning zone were given a final super clue card. Teams put together their clues to decipher our ending message which was, "But if you are prepared, ye shall not fear." Our point is that as we learn to budget (saving some emergency money), eat better, exercise and understand what to do in emergencies we won't need to worry about those things and we'll be super missionaries. One half of the mission came to our Day 1 session in Ilagan and the other half met us on Day 2 in Santiago.
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| Day 1 Champions |
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| Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Super Missionary! |
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| Our Three Exercising Amigos. They showed up on a sweltering day wearing sweats! And were ready to GO! |
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| The budget bandit, always trying to get missionaries to waste their money! |
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| These three sisters came as President's Angels complete with their matching t-shirts |
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| The Three Amigos demonstrate various exercise moves. No that isn't the sun shining on Elder Goobie's legs. He actually shaved them in stripes! You should have seem Sister Webre's horrified expression when she realized what they had done! |
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| One team during the cooking challenge. |
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| Our Super Missionary told them to listen very carefully during the various mini classes. |
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| Day 2's winning team. They solved the puzzle and won a banaue bag! |
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| These cute sisters were cooking up a storm. |
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