Be Ye Knot Afraid

School colors for SHSU

Just wanted to share a little about our latest on campus activity --Survival Bracelets!  This took place on February 28th.  We had planned originally to hold this in January but a snow day for the university cancelled our plans.  We prepared for this event in several stages.  Our son, Joseph designed a t-shirt for the event. The students loved his ideas.  We also did a couple of trial runs on Friday Forums so that everyone would be able to help someone else make a bracelet.  We ordered lots of paracord and clasps in a variety of oranges and blues plus a variety of other colors.

Front Side of t-shirt

We thought we might do 50 bracelets if we were lucky.  We ended up doing over a hundred bracelets that day!

The event was supposed to go from 11-1pm.  We finally just had to turn people away at 3 pm and close down.  One of our students came up with the idea of a survey in order to track the students who attended.  The 

bracelets were free to whoever wanted to make one.  Some kids came back after classes to make a second and third one.  We gained a ton of referrals for the missionaries and have also made follow up calls to invite students to our classes.  

Learning how to make bracelets at Friday Forum

Teaching a student 

Back of the shirt

We couldn't cut cord fast enough!

The Campus TV station interviewed our students

The Monday before the event, I got a little nervous about having enough cord, so I made an 

emergency order.  It arrived at 11:15 the day of the event--not a moment too soon.  It was another 800 ft and 100 clasps.  At the end of the day, we had about 300 ft. total left.  

Neil and President Olson