After a stake or multistake Mutual activity, set aside some time with youth and leaders to evaluate the activity. You can be guided by the following questions:

What?

Ask leaders and youth questions about what occurred during the activity, such as:

• What was the best part?
• What were the challenges?
• How did you feel?
• Was this a spiritual experience?

So What?

Ask the youth questions that help them think about the activity in terms of gospel principles. Questions might include:

• Why did we do what we did?
• What little miracles did we see?
• When did you recognize the Spirit?
• How did the activity help someone?

Now What?

Ask the youth to think about how the activity will affect them in the future. You might ask:

• What difference will this activity make in your life?
• Will you do anything differently in the future because of what we have done?
• What have you learned?

You may want to ask youth to write down their feelings and what they learned in a personal journal or to share their feelings and thoughts with leaders.

(See Teaching, No Greater Call [1999], 122.)