Both Gene and I have the privilege of working with the youth in our church.
He is the Young Men's President and I am a counsellor in the Young Women's leadership. It is so fun, and we really enjoy it. It takes up a lot of our free time but we have really grown to love these young kids as our own,
and we both cherish our time with them.
This first video is of the Young Men of our ward, doing a Samoan slap dance.
Some awesome Young Adult guys from Long Beach came over several times to teach our boys this dance. Then they came to our Luau to help out and support our effort.
I love my Samoan brothers and sisters, they are so generous and kind. Our wonderful MC that evening was Sepa/Lisa who grew up in our ward and graduated from Westminster High School, she was even the Homecoming Queen in 1993/94.
She, along with several others flew all the way from Utah to help us out with our Luau.
Our Samoan guests/helpers were also our wonderful entertainment for the evening aside from our youth who did their dances. A Polynesian custom that we've learned as a ward, is to throw money onto the stage to show appreciation for the dancers. The boys really raked in the money. At the end of the evening they called all of the Bishopric, Activities Committee and all of us youth leaders up on to the stage to do our impromptu dance . . . . All of our efforts raised just under 4 thousand dollars that evening and we had a lot of fun too!
The Westminster Ward has had many, many luaus through out the years but this one is the funnest one I can remember!!!
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