Phillip and Julianna Iverson: Texting Basket

Friday, March 06, 2009

Texting Basket

You may recall this blog about our texting issue at Mutual. At Bishop Dehmel's suggestion we went with the "basket" idea.

I was rather nervous about it at first. I had found out that the YM were having the same issue, so I got the YM pres in on it as well. On Wednesday I walked in, grabbed the basket and threw my phone in. I turned to the YM pres, Bishop and 1st Counselor who also added theirs to the basket. (Whew the easy part is over...now what?)
Surprisingly we had very little argument from the boys and slightly little more from the girls. They weren't too happy about the idea but gave in.
One week down...we'll see how next week goes.

5 comments:

Unknown said...: Hurray!! I'll make sure to put mine in the basket on Sunday so the girls know it's for Sundays too.; 5:24 PM
Trent and Mel said...: Hey guys, we happened upon your blog tonight through the Gaufins. I'm so happy to see people in our new ward like to blog also. Yeah!; 8:41 PM
Leah said...: Way to go! I started to do the same thing with my Activity Day girls and now I'm going to do it with the YW. Let me know how it works for you guys!; 9:16 AM
Bird is the Word said...: yeah!!! great examples!!; 3:37 PM
The Hanks Family said...: lol...no wonder my dad doesn't answer the phone during mutual anymore.; 8:34 AM

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