Tonight was the Single Adult (over 30) FHE. What a mess!!! Me, I am the mess! I woke up in the night on Wednesday and realized that we had invited every single adult in three stakes to come to FHE.
I have seen the list of single women in the two Suva Stakes and they number 420. Yup, that's right, 420 LDS women over 30 are single. Since divorce is not acceptable here, most of those have never married, some are widowed, and only a few are divorced. Well, I woke up in a cold sweat thinking about the food. To add to the stress about food every day this week I had some LDS woman call and ask about the party which started me thinking that we might have to move FHE to the church behind the institute.
I figured I would fix sloppy joes because they go a long way, are easy to fix, are relatively inexpensive, and are easy to serve. How much hamburger does one need to feed 420 women plus any men who hopefully would come? I panicked. Poor Scott. He had to listen to me for two whole days about food for the party.
It is interesting that about two weeks ago, after Scott had gotten all excited about doing the over 30 thing, I got this feeling that we should not do it. I got the idea at first because in every ward's Young Adult Sunday School Class there are from 3 to 10 students that are over 31 and still single. They have absolutely no place to meet anyone LDS who is over 30 except at church. Which obviously isn't working as far as getting married is concerned. I thought that we could hold these FHEs once a month so they could meet each other. When Scott ran it passed Elder Wakolo, he reminded us that there were single mothers who could not come to our FHE if we held it on Monday nights. It is, of course, their responsibility to be home with their children having FHE. We moved the activity to a Friday. After that I began to feel that sponsoring this activity was not something we should be doing.
OK, so how did it turn out you wonder? Well, I made enough sloppy joe to feed a small army. Really! I had two big oval crockpots and one large pan filled with the stuff. We had less than 20 show up although those 20 plus ate nearly an entire crockpot of sloppy joes. I am always amazed that over 30s are dying to meet new people, but when given the chance to do just that they do not. I can not decide if they are embarrassed by their status, or if they think everyone over 30 that is not married is weird except themselves.
We had a great time, however. Cheryl Bahn one of the sharpest Fijian women I know gave a short, interesting and clever lesson. We had asked those who attended to bring either a salad or dessert. We had two lovely salads, someone brought soda, someone else brought chips, and we had several desserts. It worked out perfectly. Scott did the activity and used the music game he made up for the Young Adults in the Suva Stake. Everyone had a great time playing. By then it was after 8:30 so we asked if they wanted to go home, or watch a movie. MOVIE won. So we showed them Annie. For some reason Annie tickles the Fijian funny bone. It was 11:30 before Scott and I got home.
What may you ask and I going to do with all the left over sloppy joes? Feed all the left over buns plain to the YSAs tomorrow night, They, indeed, will eat anything. We will freeze the left over sloppy joes and use it for our Senior Couples FHE the end of the month.
I am thinking we will get out of the over 30 business.
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