Youth etiquette dinner

The Mia Maid class was in charge of our joint young men/young women etiquette dinner this year. They chose to do a Japanese cultural dinner. Here's their invitation:

Molly made these signs for the walls with Japanese symbols representing different things such as friendship, peace and tranquility.

Molly is currently serving as the Mia Maid president. She did a fabulous job with this activity ( as did ALL the Mia Maids!). Molly's assignment was to make the invitations and signs for the walls, the seating chart and typing up the names to add to some origami boxes her entire class made for place cards. She also called all the young women leaders to let them know the details of the event and was just genuinely excited for the entire thing. She has amazing leaders that are very organized, they are teaching her great organization skills that will help her for her lifetime.

Here's Molly and I at the end of the evening...still smiling!


All of the youth took off their shoes and left them in the hall and sat on pillows around low tables. They enjoyed sushi, raw salmon, tofu and noodles. Just a taste was offered to all and I think the youth all enjoyed the experience. The guest speaker spoke about etiquette in other countries. It was very interesting and taught the youth the importance of understanding others values.

Our young women secretary made a cd of some Japanese music that played in the background as the youth ate.

I think everyone enjoyed the evening.