Young Women

November came in with a bang.  It started out with a week that I thanked my lucky stars when it was over. Like, really, I was almost giddy when Sunday night came to a close, and I got to lay in bed and snuggle close to Dave and exclaim how…

At the same time Grace and I were packing up for our 4th year adventure overnighter (back HERE), Claire was packing up for her first Beehive camp. Ok, and for those readers not “in the “know” on the crazy Mormon lingo, the term “Beehives” is used for the group of…

Each year our church holds a girls’ summer camp (see ours from a few years ago back HERE). This year we’re not doing a real camp since we are doing a Trek (comes around every four years, our last one is back HERE).   But the 4th-year campers always do…

When I got released from being the Young Women’s president I knew I’d be sad because I adored (and still adore:) those girls.  But I also thought I would be relieved.  It was a LOT of work and there were so many other things on my plate that I could…

Last week we held our New Beginnings program with the Young Women. That’s when we introduce the whole program to the new girls coming in that year (the ones who are turning 12) and involve all the girls in a little program for the parents. We talk about Personal Progress…

I have a question that I have been wondering about for some time. What happens when you and your parents differ in a parenting techniques or philosophy/policy to do with family? I know your parents have spent a lot of time developing and teaching parenting practices. I also totally get…

We’ve had a whole slew of changes around here at church. I mentioned that the boundaries of our “ward” (the people we go to church with each Sunday), got changed last month and it’s been a little bit crazy keeping up with goodbyes and welcomes …missing the girls we loved…

I hope these are readable! As promised, below please find pictures of the contents of our envelopes for our “Daughter of God” week. (Click HERE for more info. on what I’m talking about.) I decided to just put pictures of what was in the envelopes here to make it easier,…

At the end of the week where we had this and this and this we headed up to the mountains for Youth Conference. With all four hundred-some youth ages 14 and up from our little pocket of the desert in a trail of yellow school buses.(the girls in our group)(the…

When our family went to California last summer we ran into a fellow Young Women president who told me about a great idea they implemented last year: In their congregation of girls they set aside one particular week to help the girls more fully understand that they are God’s children.…