This activity is similar to Secret Grandmother, but on a larger scale. This activity was very detail orientated, but still popular. It took a lot of effort to prepare. Adopt a grandparent is essentially pen pals. We set this activity up so they would write back and forth for two months and then we would have a meet-n-greet dinner at the church for our November combined mutual. My teaching companion and I put together a list of older members in our congregation that would benefit from this. We wanted a diverse group. It didn't matter if they were active or not, male or female, married or single, already grandparents or not. We put together a list of about twenty people, including married couple and individuals. The Bishop approved our list before we proceeded and added his own suggestions. I also recommend receiving suggestions from the Elders Quorum and Relief Society President. They know the needs of their stewardship. Once we had a list in place, we preassigned all of the y...