I set up a longer table (I brought one from home but you could use one from the building) and I set it up on two plastic storage tubs instead of on it's own legs so it would be a low table. I tried to make it look sort of like the last supper table....table cloth, some rustic candle sticks and copper plates, etc. I had pita bread in a basket (wrapped in a cloth) and grape juice in a pretty bottle I have. I brought throw pillows to sit on and we all sat around the table.

The girls were very attentive because of the unusual setting and thought it was fun. I had the girls take turns reading all the scriptures in the lesson and at the Last Supper part, we passed around the pita bread and the grape juice.

I used all the scriptures and quotes from the lesson and also used part of a talk by John Bytheway that is in the 1998 EFY book, Joy in the Journey, Chapter 7, "The Best Three Hours of the Week".

I just listened to the online version of John Bytheways talk and it is different than the EFY book version. It is longer, more in depth and excellent. I highly recommend it to anyone preparing this lesson. I discovered there are tons of other great talks to listen to there! Maybe all of you already knew it was a great resource but it's new to  me.

I felt the lesson went really well. There was a great feeling there. I have the most awesome laurels. I challenged them to write down things they could do to make the sacrament more meaningful, try it for 4 weeks and then if they want, we will have time in class to report about it.

This is the general idea of what I did. I wondered if the sort of "re-enactment" of the Last Supper was appropriate and asked my Bishop, who happens to be my husband, and he said it was fine.

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