Young Women's Night of Excellence:

Here are the invitations that were passed out on Sunday.  (Moroni was bordered with gold glitter)

 Each girls' name was printed on the front of the homemade envelope.

...yes, these took FOREVER to make.

Decorations.

As the girls arrived, the got to wear one of these VIP passes.

Decorations from the night:

Each girl (whether present of not) was spotlighted.  We told 3 things that made them special or that they were involved in.  

Then they got to walk down the red carpet with our awesome Bishop.  They told us one thing they were working on for Personal Progress in the microphone.

 After, they were handed one of these made by our amazing YW President:

At the very end, we watched a slide show (made by our YW pres) of all the pictures we took through out the year at our activities and girls camp.

We had the idea to wear our old HS dance dresses for the night. 

(mine barely fit, I think I was 5-6 months pregnant)

and to make you smile, here is a pic of my husband and little boy "helping" set up for the night ;)

Did it make you smile?  :)

Divine Nature YW Activity.


I realize, I'm not very good at taking pictures the night of.... I'll work on that.

Hopefully you can still get the idea of how much fun we have at our activities!!!!

This night was based off of the YW Value, Divine Nature (Daughter of a Heavenly King/Princess in Training).

The invitations were folded in thirds and sealed with a gold seal.





First we had them learn how to walk on a red carpet (red butcher paper).

Our awesome and sweet Secretary was Ms. Idaho, so naturally she taught us how to walk and wave :)

We had classical music playing in the background and of course wore, SASHES!!!

To get to the next room, they had to put a Hymn book on their head and walk.

Not that easy to do, trust me.



Next, our Mia Maid adviser taught us eating etiquette (pinky's up):

They had to walk with their hands like this to the next room :)

Lastly, we had a lady in our ward talk on Divine Nature and referred to the Book 'Once Upon a Time' by Deiter Uchtforf.  And also how the temple is like a queen's CASTLE.

 To end the night, we made a craft to help them remember their Divine Nature.

It was a black wood black with this 5x7 modge podged on it.  Also, they made a wire crown to hang on the corner.

For fun, we  had a QUEEN photo booth:

And as always, here are the images from the internet that inspired this night :)

This is what we did for our combined YM/YW activity last year for the "Come Follow Me" mutual theme.

Sorry there are no pictures from the night, but IT WAS AWESOME.

Read the rules and games HERE.

The game board was made out of several poster boards and put on one wall of the gym.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I'll do my best to answer!

New Beginnings

This years mutual theme is about Embarking in the Service of the work of The Lord.  And how Sweet is the work of Service!!!

Our theme for New Beginnings this year was 'Sweet is the Work'.

Here are the CUTE invitations:

Here is a blank copy if you'd like to make one :)  I taped a skewer to the back, put a ziplock sandwich bag over the invite, and tied a ribbon.  On Sunday I put them all in a glass candy jar to pass out.

Here's a pic of the program (my YW pres made these).

 We had the Laurel President conduct, two YW sing a duet (they did awesome), and then 3 recently YW Program graduates spoke on the importance of Personal Progress, and then the bishop wrapped it up.



Get it?  "Wrapped" it up. Ha.

Well, I thought it was funny.




So anyways.....




We also had the YW stand for the theme, spotlighted the new Beehives coming in this year, and had every woman in the room who had received their YW medallion stand up to be recognized.

Here is the delicious Sweet is the Work treat table.  On the small table on the left, we had ice water with lemons and a slush drink (our Mia Maid adviser was the master mind of this set up:)).

Lashes & 'Staches    Daddy Daughter Date

Above is the handmade invitation we sent out 2 weeks before the DATE.

And this was the one a week before.  Make sure to remind the MOM's (dad's forget stuff :))

This is what the paintbrush invite template looks like if you want to attempt at making some :)

As they arrived, they got to do a photoshoot in front of this set up.  We had frames, hats, glasses, scarves, and of course, mustaches.

While the dads and daughters were waiting for the others to take their pics, we had them see if they could 'Guess the Stache'.

For your own copy, click HERE.

1. Tom Sellec,  2.  Hulk  Hogan, 3.  Albert Einstein, 4.  Dustin Hoffman (Hook), 5.  Will Farrell, 6.  Mike Dika, 7.  Monopoly man, 8.  Charlie Chapman, 9.  Ned Flanders (the Simpson's)


We had a relay race where the dad had to dress the daughter in cowboy attire.  The daughter did the relay and then it was dads turn.  The rules were the daughter had to dress dad, and dad had to dress the daughter.  The finishing touch was that they had to put on the sticky mustache.

We had a simple obstacle - like run around chairs, under the table and 10 jumping jacks and then back.

We played 'Pin the 'Stache on Mr. Potato Head'.  They got to choose who spun who around and then pin the 'stache on.

Then the dads got to paint the girls nails!!!  Fun!
(Some dad's needed some work on their painting skills)

The rule was, the DAD's got to pick the color!

We also played 'Who's your Daddy???'

The room was divided in half by this chalkboard.  The girls sat on one side and the dad's on the other.  I would point at a dad and he would (in his disguised voice) say, "I mustache you, if you know who your daddy is?".

Then the daughter would see if she could guess if it was her dad.

This. was. SOOOO fun!!!

In fact, we had so much fun we did it the reverse way after.  The girls disguised their voice and we saw if the dad's could guess.

Sorry girls, but the dad won that game :)




At the very end, we had the dad's say what their favorite thing was about their daughter and vice versa.  We also had the Bishop (who was one of the dad's) speak real quick and bare testimony of our Heavenly Father.


This was the handout.

And as always, here are the photos that inspired this night:

For tomorrow's lesson, we will be talking about the Holy Ghost. (link for outline click here).

Included in the material for the outline, "What are the Roles of the Holy Ghost" is a VIDEO.


It's amazing.


I probably listened to it at least 6 times.  Pausing and pondering and listening to certain sentences by James E. Faust.

Over and over.



I am going to bring an old radio and quickly go over how to manually tune into a station.  Then show the video.

If you too are going to be discussing the Holy Ghost, here are some questions that might help when getting your girls to interact:

-"There will be many voices pulling for your attention".  What are these distracting voices/static?
-Why are they distracting?
-What channel should we listen to?  What does it sound like? (answers can be found in Boyd k. Packers talk, Counsel to Youth found here.  It's a good one.)
-How do we TUNE in?
-Why should we tune in?

We also will be reading the scriptures listed here.

I won't give word for word on any of my lessons because I feel YOU should prayerfully prepare your lessons.  But I thought giving questions to ask may help you with your discussions.

And above all, LISTEN to the voice of the Holy Ghost.  HE will reveal things into your heart and mind that you will be able to help your Young Women gain their own testimony's.

(For a print our of the image above, click HERE)

To help the girls remember the TOPICS each month, we made these cute papers to set out each Sunday.

Each class of the YW has a clipboard (set on the chalkboard or an easle) to clip the paper with the month's topic on it.

Here's an example of February's:

For a Word Document of all the month's, click HERE

As a presidency, we thought it would be a good idea to give out 'Miss You' cards to the YW that are inactive.  This is to let them know we are thinking about them and miss them!  So we are going to tape one of these to their front door every last Sunday of the month.

Feel free to use them if you'd like to do this too!

click HERE and HERE and HERE for all 3 :)