WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE?

Okay, I am learning what's work and what doesn't. Today was a "doesn't." We worked in groups of five or six and tried to decide what was more important for our well-being because we were lost/stranded. We didn't know where we were. We needed to list in order one being the most important and 15 being the least. We needed to make a personal decision and a group decision. The items were box of matches, food concentrate, length of nylon rope, parachute silk, portable heating unit, two 45-caliber pistols, case of dehydrated milk, two 50 kg tanks of oxygen, map, life raft, magnetic compass, five jugs of water, signal flares, first-aid kit with hypodermic needles and a solar-powered radio transmitter-receiver. Interesting to watch the different groups (ask Bryan how well he worked with his group). In the end there was no right or wrong answers. The questions were: (1) when you were ranking the items as a group, did someone take charge? Who? (2) Did some participate in the process more than others? In what ways? (3) What motivated the group to succeed? (4) What attitudes helped the group succeed? (5) How did the group discussion help you understand any errors in your own thinking? (6) What attitudes led to disorganization?
So, the final outcome -- this was a bust! I was trying to point out what Nephi, Laman, Lemuel, Sam and others may have had to face. Who takes charge? Why? Why is it always Nephi? How can we possibly build a boat? Oh yeah, we have seen an angel....what does that have to do with building a boat? etc. Oh, well....moving on (luckily not on a boat -- I might be facing mutiny).
This week we will be finished with 1 Nephi.