Friday night we went to the Relief Society Birthday party for Pocuro Ward. It was supposed to start at 8:30, so we figured if we got there at 9 it would be about ready to start. They started at 9:15. We had a devotional in the chapel. The R.S. President talked about each woman was a link in the chain of Relief Society, and each link was needed to make the chain strong. If one of the links was missing, it made the chain weaker. Then the bishop talked about R.S. helping women strengthen their faith and he gave Mary Fielding Smith as an example of a woman of great faith. After the devotional we adjourned to the cultural hall where we had great food...
played fun games like this one, where couples had to dance together keeping a tennis ball between them. The last one dancing with the tennis ball wins.
and danced....
and danced.
All the women who didn't have a partner danced in a big circle, even Sister Hoppe who is in her 70's. Since Elder Dahlstrom was a stick in the mud and wouldn't dance with me, I had to join the circle of single women!
We left at 11 and they were still going strong. We were told that last year it wasn't over until after 1 a.m. We had a lot of fun and I told Elder Dahlstrom that he was not going to get out of dancing with me next year!
