My ward decided to do a big FHE activity. The assignment was to make a video about something from the Book of Mormon. Those were the only instructions. So, my FHE group and I got to work thinking of something fun and entertaining we could do for our video. It is a male dominated group, so many ideas were thrown out.
My favorite idea was to do a sock puppet murder mystery. We were going to turn the story of the chief judge getting killed (I think Nephi was the prophet at the time) into a classic whodunnit.
Alas, the men thought sock puppets were silly. The idea was scrapped.
Instead, we decided upon a series of short "And I'm a Mormon" clips. One was Abish, the track star. Another was Nephi building a boat. Samuel the Lamanite. Alma the Younger talking about his thug days. The guys got pretty excited, and it turned out really well.
Every group in the ward made a video, and we had a big FHE activity together to watch all of the videos. They were all clever and creative, and surprisingly well-made. Which got me thinking.
We made these videos just for fun, for our ward to watch. And it brought us all together to make the videos a success. Which is pretty powerful. A group of 9 opinionated guys (plus a couple of us girls) managed to come together and get really excited about something, and they/we made it happen.
Imagine if that were applied to something bigger. More important. The impact it could have is amazing. I think that is why the church puts out so many different forms of media now. It brings people together in lots of different ways for a powerful and wonderful purpose. Think of the impact we could have if we took advantage of media like that.
I'm sorry that they didn't go along with the sock puppet idea. I love it! It really is awesome that media can bring together people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances. When I was in middle school, my dad and I both bonded over the Harry Potter books.
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