Young Women Activity

Last night we had a very fun Young Women activity. In January the young women were all assigned an older sister to have as their adopted "grandma". They were suppose to do secret kind things for them then last night we all got together and revealed who the granddaughters were. We played the "Three truths and a lie" game and ate a yummy dinner. It was such a fun activity and so fun to see the older ladies interact and love the younger girls. Hopefully the younger girls also learned to love their "grandmas". The "grandmas" loved getting the little notes and cookies and other nice things. We even had some say "they always seemed to come on the days that I really needed them!" I hope everyone enjoyed this as much as I did!

A Realization

Tonight was our ward's Young Women New Beginnings. What a perfectly wonderful night! I have to admit I was a little bit nervous, but everything came through and the spirit was SO strong. We have incredible Young Women, now, they aren't perfect and there are some that we will always be praying and worrying about, but overall they are great! The girls all participated in the program and we had a great turn out. The whole program was about Christ, the young women values and women from the scriptures. I most definately had my heart touched!

For me, the most touching part of the night was at the end as all of the Young Women and leaders were singing "Have You Received His Image in Your Countenance" I looked at the parents and my heart was touched. Each parent had their eyes totally fixed on their daughter with total looks of love and adoration in their eyes. Many with tears in their eyes. I loved this. I hope the Young Women understood what they were seeing. I remember when I was that age I thought my parents were out to make my life miserable, I don't know that I would have ever recognized that love in my parents eyes. I was too dumb! Maybe these Young Women are smarter (I can hope but I don't think it is something you understand until you're a parent yourself.)

Young Women Values

In our Young Women we are trying to incorporate using the values more. So, I made these blocks. We are going to display them all together at big activities (New Beginnings, Young Women in Excellence, etc...) and then every month we'll have the value that we are highlighting sitting on our front table. They were pretty inexpensive. We used 1 2x6 piece of wood which was cut into 8" pieces and painted white. This cost about $3 at Home Depot. Then used vinyl letters, a lady in our ward cut them, but they would'nt have cost very much. The ribbon was our biggest expense but I was able to find most of it on clearance at Michael's.

eta: Because there have been a bunch of questions... Yes, I did the new value "virture", it just happens to be hiding. Its color is gold and if you look very closely you can see the gold bow behind "individual worth". :)