Square Dinner Dance

The Young Single Adult Committee decided that they wanted an activity where they learned to square dance and also had dinner. They thought calling the activity a Square Dinner Dance would be a good idea. They wanted something for dinner that matched a western theme and settled on chili dogs.We ended up with responsibility to organize the whole event.

All the young single adults in the wards and branches in and around Gaborone were invited to attend. A bus load of thirty came from Mochudi.

Because events like this have been very rare we were not sure how many to plan for and thought that if we were lucky we could get eighty to attend and decided that we would have enough food for one hundred just in case. We ended up serving one hundred and fourteen. We were blessed that we had just about the right amount of food.

Four young adults said they would come to our house to chop vegetables for the salad but only one came. We called in the other two senior couples in Gaborone to come to our rescue and they jumped right in. We served chili dogs, cabbage salad, Texas sheet cake, and punch for dinner. We made three cakes and Sister Kimball and Sister Taylor each made two cakes.

The young adults had a lot of fun. They did a line dance, the Hokey Pokey, learned some square dancing, and ended with traditional African dancing.