Fun and Games

On pages 2–3, President Eyring talks about the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Joseph was very good at the game of stick pull. Sometimes he’d even win while playing against two people at once! Here’s how to play:

1. Sit on the ground with another person facing you.

2. With your knees bent and feet touching, have each person grab a sturdy stick. (You could use a broomstick.) Each person tries to pull the other person up by pulling the stick toward him or her.

In Russia, one of the most popular sports is ice hockey. Here’s a fun hockey game you can create anywhere with a pencil and a piece of paper.

Draw a hockey rink as shown below. Then take turns with a friend seeing who can score the most goals. Here’s how to play:

1. Place the point of a pencil or crayon in the middle circle.

2. Close your eyes and try to draw a line that goes through one of the circles and ends up inside the goal box.

3. If your line makes it through a circle and stops in the rectangle, you made a goal!

4. Whoever scores the most after 10 shots each is the winner.