Posted by:
forestpal
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Date: April 20, 2014 10:51PM
Our stake's gold and green balls cleared up in the '80's.
That's right. No more balls, no more New Year's Eve dance (instead, that lame televised fireside for white teens, their chauffeur parents, and 6 African Americans) no more RS bake sales, no more Christmas crafts sale, no more road shows, nor dance festivals, nor youth conferences in Watsonville, no ski trips to Squaw Valley (those were the best!), no YW/WM one-act plays, no girl's baseball, no talent night--certainly no more Halloween party with games, a chamber of horrors, and a scary movie. The Mormon youth went out into the community with our music, and we volunteered as "Candy Stripers" in the hospitals, helped clean up the local parks, etc. We were not as "exclusive." In California, the Mormon church was allowed to be more liberal. I think it was the influence of the universities there, and having professors as teachers and leaders.
We actually enjoyed "Mutual." I made life-long friends. I think that teenagers, like lobsters, when bored and cooped up too closely, turn on each other. The Utah Mormon teens seemed to be constantly sniping at each other, when I taught YW. They were not happy.