This turned out to be a real fun activity! The key is to have everything organized and well planned out (especially if you are working with a large number of youth). We had 9 stations. We had to come up with that many stations because we figured we would have 200 people and we wanted to keep the number of people at each station around 22 people. We had each station clearly marked with a number and what the station was. We first divided the youth up and put them into a station. They stayed and worked at that station for 15 min. About 2 min. before they were to switch to the next station we told them they had a couple of min. left so they could finish up what they were doing. You can have them stay as long as you want them to at each station. We picked 15 min. because we had a certain amount of time that we had allotted for our service project so we worked around that time limit. Then when their time was up we told them to go to the next station. They moved in numerical order until they had gone to every station. The things that we had at the different stations were: #1 homemade stationary. at this one I got on my computer on Print master and made some letterheads like CTR and then put a picture of a boy and girl smiling on each side of the letters. When I printed the pictures off I printed them in "Coloring Book". Then the youth colored them in with colored pencils or markers. At this station they colored homemade bookmarks. #2 Pillow cases: We got pillowcases and found a picture of Christ in a heart that we got from a Primary song help book and a picture of two feet then had the words of our theme of youth conference "I will stand as a witness in the last days" and put all of this on one end of the pillow case. We traced all of this with a iron on pen and then ironed on the pillow cases the pictures and words. This made it go a lot faster. We colored the pictures with permanent markers. We did all this before had. Then at the station the youth use the same colored permanent markers and signed their names on them.

#3 Letters to the missionaries : They wrote letters to the missionaries serving from our stake.

#4 Letters to the missionaries: They wrote letters to the missionaries serving in our stake.

#5 Testimonies: Before we got started we took a group picture. This was the most awesome picture! We got the pictures developed and made a copy for each testimony that was written and paper clipped it to the testimony. We couldn't send the Books of Mormon because of the weight so we sent the picture and testimony and asked the missionary to put them with a Book of Mormon they had and give it to an investigator. The youth wrote their testimonies on a large index card.

#6 Cookies and Trail mix: We split each group up at this station because there wasn't enough room in the kitchen for that many youth. Half of them made homemade cookies and the other made trail mix and put them in baggies.

#7 Decorating wrapping paper: I found more primary pictures and made a lot of small copies and they cut them out and colored them and put them on plain white wrapping paper that I got at Hobby Lobby. After they colored them they glued them on the paper. They also put their own creations on the paper.

#8 Quote bags: I got white sandwich bags and I got 60 really neat quotes from a wonderful book called "Sentence Sermons". But you can get neat quotes from anywhere. I typed them out and copied them. The youth decorated the bags and then cut out the quotes and folded them up and put them in the bag. The missionary gets to pull out and read 1 quote a day for 60 days.

#9 Scripture treats: I got this cute idea from LDSCN archives and it's YW article #9997. You buy small things like a bar of travel soap, small payday candy bar, small key chain, a pkg. of dried soup mix, a penny, etc. We wrapped all these things up separately in newspaper and had the scripture that goes with it ready for them to tape on the wrapped treat. The missionary reads the scripture and then unwraps the treat. This was fun!

Then I orders some cheap things like bubbles, pencils, moving pencil toppers, puzzles, etc. and put them in the package. I'm sure these packages were a wonderful treat for the missionaries! I hope they have as much fun opening them as we did putting them together.

Some things I learned from the post office in mailing the packages: Packages that you are sending over seas, don't mail letters in them because they will charge you $15.00 extra for every package. Also if you keep the weight of the package under 4lbs you can send them as small packets and it's a lot cheaper!