YSA Convention

Our hotel was across the road from the beach. I walked out there briefly to see what looked like lots of kites flying. On closer look I saw that there were guys on surfboards attached.
At the end of December, there was a YSA convention held in Narrabeen about an hour or so north of Sydney. 500 YSAs from around Australia attended. At the same time another 500 attended a YSA convention held in Perth.
Family History office was asked to participate in the convention. We joined forces with Self-Reliance missionaries and tried to make the space inviting... one that might attract young YSAs when they had many other activities to choose from.
All in all it went better than we anticipated and the room was full for the two hours of each of three days that we held the event.
Dad taught family search tree in real time and had two YSAs at a time on computers and helped them find ancestors and get around family search. Meantime, I took photos of YSAs under the theme of 'ancestors in prison' as we believe they are without saving ordinances.

Dad teaching a few of the YSA. The group would fluctuate in size and sometimes there were people sitting on the floor watching.

Some of the pics of Ancestors in prison pics that were printed and YSAs picked up at end of convention

We used the verandah as a discussion area and Johnny Leota from Self Reliance taught the YSAs about principles of self reliance. He has recently returned as mission president in Samoa and really knows how to relate to the young adults.