Seminary Scavenger Hunt

What turned out to be an incredibly fun activity was our Doctrinal Mastery Scavenger Hunt!  I divided the kids into 4 groups and told them they had to go around the church building and take a picture of something that represented each of the 10 Doctrinal Mastery scriptures that we have covered so far.  Each person in the group had to be in at least one picture and they had to text the pictures to me along with the corresponding DM verse.  The pictures were awesome and some even made me laugh!

A few examples: Matthew 16:15-19: Jesus Christ promised to build His Church and confer the keys of the kingdom;

Matthew 22:36-39: Love the Lord;

John 14:15: If ye love me, keep my commandments (Harrison told me this was him pretending to be Moses with the 10 commandments tablets);

Another keeping the commandments although they were showing how NOT to keep the commandment of Thou Shalt Not Kill. Poor Spencer - this year in seminary he's been beat up and almost murdered in the kitchen.

John 17:3: Eternal life is knowing God and Jesus Christ.

Matthew 5:14-16: Let your light so shine as an example to others. 

 John 15:16: The Lord chooses and ordains apostles and prophets (This group said they were showing how they sustain the church leaders).

More keys...

Matthew 11:28-30: If we come unto Jesus Christ, He will ease our burdens and give us rest. (I think Xander enjoyed this one and might have been tempted to stay there the rest of seminary.)

John 7:17: Do God's will to know His doctrine.

Matthew 22:36-39: Love thy neighbor.

They told me this one had to do with the commandments - thou shalt not have any other gods before me.

Another one for letting your light shine!

Luke 24:36-39: Jesus Christ was resurrected with a body of flesh and bone.

More resting at seminary!

John 3:5: We must be born of water and of the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God.

Creative ways to show keeping the commandments...

knowing God's doctrine...

loving the Lord...

and loving thy neighbor.

We had the missionaries visiting us that day, much to the excitement of some of our young ladies, and they did a great job coming up with some of their own DM expressions! One advantage they had over my students - the missionaries had a key to the library!

The kids had a blast with this activity and it is definitely one I'll be doing again!

Powder Puff

Last year Savannah didn't get her application in in time to play in the powder puff game so this year she made sure to get it done right away. I'm so glad she did because it was so much fun watching her play! A pre-game shot of the seniors...

and an encouraging talk from Coach Ewers.

Let's go Seniors!!

There's my Sav, #3. She was so glad she chose to play on the defense because she got much more playing time which is always more fun.

Some sideline instruction from Coach Ross..

as well as a few laughs.

What a jump!

She was able to hit down several passes to the receiver she was covering, her good friend and fellow soccer teammate, PR.

What would a Powder Puff game be without the cheerleaders?!?!

These crazy guys put on quite the show!

And they WERE crazy....it was absolutely freezing and there they go, running in their little shorts all the way around the track.

Back to the game, where the seniors were absolutely dominating the juniors.

Savannah had a great game and only backed off when one particular junior, Caris, was running at her. She told me later there was no way she was getting in Caris's way...she's a beast, ha ha!

The Seniors crush the Juniors!!

Celebration time!!

Seniors....Seniors!!

A few last pictures of those awesome cheerleaders...

and the victors!

My cute girl and Celine!