Gina's "Greenie" Missionary Package

                Gina is on a plane, right now, on her way to serve the people of New York!!  For Family Home Evening yesterday, we put together a "Greenie" Package for Gina.  I am putting this blog together for anyone else who would like to do something similar for their missionary.  (For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, "greenie", it refers to a missionary who is fresh out of the MTC.)  You will soon see, this package is a play on the whole "greenie" concept.

The package contents:

• Mint M&M's
• Lifesavers Mints
• Green Picture frame with photo
• Green shower poof
• Green Whoopee Cushion
• Green Crayons
• Green Finger and Toenail Clippers
• Green Bubbles
• Scotch tape
• Giant Green Pencil
• Jello: Lime and Pistachio Pudding
• Little Green Notebook
• "Doodle Journal" AKA. Sketchbook
• Letters from Home

Then to top it off we paired each item with a scripture...

For example, the doodle journal:

Isaiah 30: 8  "Now go, [DRAW] it before them in a [journal], and [DOODLE] it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever."

And the shower poof:

Isaiah 1:16  "WASH YOU, make you clean."

M&M's:   Psalms 78:25  "Man did eat ANGEL'S FOOD."

Notebook:   Moses 6:5  "A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE was kept."

Crayons:   2 Corinthians 3:3  "Written not with ink, but with the color of CRAYONS."

Nail Clippers:   1 Chronicles 20:6  "FINGERS and TOES were four and twenty."

Mints:   2 Nephi 33:1  "When a missionary speaketh by the power of the Holy Ghost ... she needs FRESH BREATH."

Picture Frame:    John 13:15  "For I am have given you an EXAMPLE."

Bubbles:   D&C 78:18  "Be of good CHEER!"

Whoopee Cushion:   Psalms 126:2  "Then was our mouth filled with LAUGHTER."

Jello:   D&C 89:13  "Used only in times of WINTER, or of COLD, or famine."

Giant Pencil:   Acts 15:23  "And they WROTE LETTERS."

Tape ("Just stick to it"):   D&C 24:8  "Be PAITIENT in afflictions ... ENDURE them, for, lo, I am with thee."

Lastly, I thought it would be fun to give Gina a little sneak peak of the fun to come by writing "greenie" all over the outside of her package...

And Voila!  Go and think green!  Happy Tuesday everyone!!

Update Alert!
April 1, 2013:

"OK ... THANKS FOR THE PACKAGE!!  It was ubber cute, and the mint M&M's were AMAZING!"  -Sister Rasmussen