Light the Fire From Within

From the YW List
Shay

Our theme was last year was "The Olympic Spirit - Light the Fire From Within." Each group picked a country. The stake theme song was a
beautiful song written by Janice Kapp Perry entitled "The Light Within".  It can be found in a Songbook with the same title at any of the church
bookstores.

The stake scripture was D&C 84:45-47

"For the word of the Lord is truth, and whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, eve the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

And the spirit giveth light to every man that cometh into the world; and the Spirit enlighteneth every man through the world, that hearkeneth to
the voice of the Spirit.

And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the Father."


They separated each day by:

On Your Mark Get Set Go! The Finish


The song sang at the closing ceremonies on the last day was "Keeper of the Flame" which the 5th years and the stake sang after which we joined in. Absolutely beautiful. I only have the words, not the music.

We had opening ceremonies where each group made their own flags and carried them in procession to the ampitheatre. The stake, of course,
were Greece and one of the priesthood leaders up there for the week ran in, toga and all, with a torch and lit a torch which stayed lit the entire time we were there. It was kept close to the stake tents with someone always watching it.

We even had Olympic games between the groups, the shoe kick--see how far you can flip you shoe from (the winner, believe it or not, flipped her
shoe more than 65 yards!), choco put--cover a girls face with coolwhip and teammates threw cocoa puffs onto her face, the one with the most on
their face wins, and other silly and fun games. I'm sure you can come up with your own silly ones.