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AmyJ wrote:
On a personal note, our primary is looking to start up Achievement Days (for 8-11 year old girls) again – and I chose to be the leader for this group again. I put together a list of activities to propose to the girls that I wanted to do/themes that were relevant to this age group and were Zoom-friendly – but were pretty non-religious (though in line with church teachings on Community, Self-Reliance, Service, and Personal Growth). At our first Primary planning meeting, we went over the general handbook for Primary – and I was amazed about how the recent changes for the Primary Children were heavily focused on teaching the gospel and planning activities around the mission of the church. I had brought up 3-4 not religiously focused activities I was thinking of presenting to the girls, and (predictably) got some pushback from the Primary President (“those aren’t really gospel-focused”) and then she also gave some anti-pushback (“but those are in line with the church and are really important”) – and she concluded with “I don’t know”. She also mentioned that she doesn’t always by instinct see how my activities will work – that they come together really well.She left the planning with me and another sister from the Primary Presidency to talk to the girls to see what they want to do, and she didn’t oppose me bringing up my list of concepts to the girls. At this point, I think that they don’t want to try to call another person and take over the executive functioning of dealing with that person and planning those activities – that I won’t hear anything else about it as long as I keep to my current course.
DW and I are in charge of activity days for the boys in our ward. We have begun doing it by zoom. This has led to complaints from at least one mother that feels that if the YM and YW can meet physically then we should be able to do it as well. DW and I are not comfortable with live meetings just yet so if push comes to shove then the leadership can accept our zoom meeting format or release us. In December, we did a nativity based “escape room.” This week, we will be doing a more secularly based Christmas trivia game. When my wife did activity days for the girls some years back, I was surprised at how gospel centric it was. It seemed to me to be a SS lesson with treats and a cool craft. DW and I were more recently the cub scout bear den leaders. I believe this latter experience informs how we plan our activity days lessons now. The boys want something fun and engaging, if there is a spiritual component then that is an afterthought. P.S. We have also invited the girls to our zoom activities. Most of the work is in planning the activity. it is fairly easy to scale it towards a larger group.
There is also a Mormonland podcast of the Bushman interview. It’s about 37 minutes long and offers some additional insights and details about stuff discussed in the article (including cosmopolitanism and the “one true church” idea). https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/01/07/mormon-land-historian/ ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/01/07/mormon-land-historian/ Quote:“My line is that you don’t read the scriptures, the scriptures read you. Stated differently, scriptures are less about revealing universal truth and more about revealing your nature as evidenced through your interpretation of and reaction to said scriptures.”
^^This.
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