YSA One Day Convention

The Young Single Adults from Gaborone, Kanye, and Mochudi met on Saturday, 8 September, at Mmakgodumo Dam in Kanye for games and socialization. The idea all started as a picnic by the Kanye Institute and grew from there to a multi-unit event. The event went smoothly because of all the planning and organizing by the young adults of the food and activities. Eighty-six people attended. Everyone seemed to have a good time. Many of the young single adults want to have more multi-unit activities like this one with many people there.

Those from Mochudi had to start early in the morning traveling to the event because the drive is over two hours. They took public transportation to Gaborone to save money and hired a kombi from there to Kanye. The kombi took them back to Mochudi after the activity because of worry about returning to Gaborone too late to catch public transportation back to Mochudi.

Breakfast and lunch were served at the activity. Breakfast was polony (bologna) or tuna sandwiches, fruit, and drink. Lunch was chicken or beef, relish, pap (maize meal), and brownies.

To start the activities the youth had to find people in the group that had done specific things like live in Johannesburg for four years or have two brothers and two sisters. This was a good way to get to know other people. They group was divided into six teams to play the games which included a grapefruit passing relay, categories, fruit basket, steal the bacon, moose-moose, water bucket relay, sack races, apple eating, and tug of war. We were in charge of several of the games. Sister Rands did much of the planning but Elder Rands ran the games because Sister Rands is back in Utah for surgery on her left hand this time.