Our Primary put on a ward activity this evening-- "Book of Mormon Challenge". Our ward has a goal for everyone to read the Book of Mormon this year and this was a bit of a kickoff activity. Abe served as our announcer-- his name was "Amazoriantumr". We had dinner and lots of games for families to play. Clark built our "Ruins of Ammonihah". You had to race against someone else to blow a ping-pong ball through the maze. In "Nephi's Beast Hunt" you tried to hit the beasts with toy balls. As you can imagine the girls were horrified to see their precious webkins abused in such a manner. No actual animals were harmed in the playing of this game. In "Samuel the Lamanite" the goal was to shoot Samuel off his wall with a nerf gun. The little lady with the gun in this picture is WAY too close. No shooting Samuel point blank. I had to intercede and make them step back. This was a popular table. If you thought shooting Samuel was bad, "Waters of Sebus" was downright grotesque-- but in a funny sort of way. If you recall, the Waters of Sebus was the location of Ammon's cutting off the arms of the Lamanite robbers. I am swinging arms (made of nylons and stuffing) and I'm about to throw them to Abe and Elinor who will try to catch them in a towel. Very fun. Somewhat irreverent, but fun. We had a few other games: "Amalickiah's Poison Darts" (blowing toothpicks through straws into boxes), "Book of Mormon Trivia" (answer BOM questions), and "Symbols of Zarahemla" (a matching game). The final game was "The Title of Liberty Challenge". There were two teams racing to have everyone on their team put on the t-shirt, and sign their name. It was close and very funny watching people getting tangled up in the shirt trying to do it quickly. Overall the activity was very well attended and I think people enjoyed themselves. And I'm glad it's done. Good night.
