I Just Had to Share this with You

As some of you may know I have moved from being an Idaho girl to becoming a Utah wife and yesterday when I checked Facebook, I saw a few posts from a few of the lady's that were in my ward from back in Idaho. I guess in Relief Society they had their President's Message/Lesson on the power of thoughts and the teacher, a good friend to my family shared this video with the sisters. Even though it was used for a Relief Society lesson, I think it would and could be easily used for Young Women's. I hope you find this as inspiring as I did! 

Wouldn't this make for a great challenge or mutual activity or even Personal Progress. I just love it!

A Late PPW

So I thought I would let you all know (and yes in pure me fashion I am a day late) but last night was our ward's New Beginnings and I was invited to come because I was being awarded my YW Medallion that I had earned. I was really stoked to still be able to receive it even though I was released. I will update you on that in a bit (I got an essay to get out of the way for school first).


Hopefully you all are still working hard towards you personal progress goals. If I can do it I know that you can really do it. 

You Need 2 Check this Idea Out!!!

Photo belongs to http://inkablinka.com

I just had to share this wonderful idea that Kristin from Inkablinka came up with as a weekly reward for their wards young women for working on their personal progress. I love that it goes with the mutual theme for the year!  

You NEED to check this idea out by clicking HERE! To cute and super easy to make! Will definitely be sharing this idea with our YW president at our next presidency meeting. 

My Journey and Challenge

With our YWIE coming soon upon us, I have given much thought to my own personal progress. I will admit that I have been rather relaxed in completing values and the value projects. As soon as I got busy with camp, personal progress just kind of fell to the wayside and then school started up and yeah, its like a snowball rolling down a hill. 

This got me thinking a little bit. I want to be an example to the girls that I have been called to lead and teach and this nagging thought has always been in the back of mind telling me that how could I expect my young women to work and complete personal progress goals if I myself am not working towards my YW medallion. It comes down simply as this: I can't. 

So I have decided that I am going to hold myself accountable and challenge myself to post on this blog my progress (and journey through this really wonderful program). I am asking that you, my fellow readers...for I know you are out there, that you hold me accountable. If I slack I want YOU to tell me to be better.

So here is my plan: I am going to commit myself to work on personal progress (at least one goal a week). Then I am going to use Wednesday as my day to check in with all of you and blog about my progress (either my success or failure...I am going to bear myself to you all). We are going to call this Personal Progress Wednesday (its the day that I do all my YW stuff...such as mutual).

Personal Progress Helper....

We just had our PP fondu night...what better way to get your young women together to work on personal progress than by offering food!

Just to tell you what our night was, before getting into the reason behind this post, we had two different kinds of chocolate (dark/milk and white) and then we had a variety of foods that went with the colors of the YW Values (marshmallows for faith, blue gummy sharks for DN, strawberries and swedish fish for IW, granny smith apples for knowledge, yellow gumdrops for good works, orange slices for c&a, the leader who had purple wasnt there but you could use grapes or something, and then pretzels for virtue). We also had pp interviews with each of the girls (one on one) while the rest worked on their individual pp. We provide journal sheets, scriptures, magazines for the girls to use. It was great.

So moving on. I was searching all over the net for some ideas on how to encourage the girls to do pp. I saw that a lot of wards/leaders have the same problem, either the girls don't care for the pp program or they dont have time. I was one My Place for YW Stuff and saw this great idea. It was a spread sheet that laid out all the value experiences and how long you need to complete them. I recreated it using excel and then pasting it into word 2007 doc (I was trying to get it so I could get more than one on a sheet...yeah...I failed) but I also wanted to redo it because the original was so dark in color (and you really need to have it in color to work) that to print a ton of them out would go through a lot of ink so I lightened the colors up a bit.

Here is a picture, click HERE to download the word docx.

Oh the Joys of Summer

I just wanted to take a few moments and update you with what is going on and what you will see being posted on We Are Daughters of a Heavenly King.

Girls Camp- it has sort of become my life right at the moment as it is coming up at the end of the month and I sort of have a double duty as being camp director and the 2nd counselor in our YW presidency (long story there) but I am grateful for it as it keeps me busy while I wait for the upcoming school semester to start.

I have a project that I am working on and will be posting closer to the day we leave for camp. It is a four part process and I am trying to keep it underwraps from the rest of my leaders and girls. However if you would like to know about it (and are not from my ward) email me  @ wearedaughtersofaheavenlyking@gmail.com and I will share with you what I am doing along with a PDF so you can see it. It would make for a cute camp project/ idea and I can change some of the pages to adapt to your theme or what not.

Now to the UPCOMING stuff- we are doing personal progress chocolate fondu tonight for our mutual activity. It should be fun but during all of this, we are suppose to be holding or interviews with each of the girls. Last time I was in that posistion I had no idea on what I should ask or how to conduct it. Needless to say I probably made the girls a little uncomfortable because I was uncomfortable (hey I had only been called to the YWs for about a month...). So I did some digging and found some really cute ideas that I know I could recreate and hopefully make someone else who may be in the posistion that I was in job a little easier.  So keep an eye out for those items.

Also I want to thank all of you who have emailed with questions and requests and have posted comments. I also want to thank everyone who reads this blog. I had no idea that people would even find it interesting and keep coming back for more. It really creates a desire to be more on top of it and keep creating items. I am truly blessed to know that I am helping others with their callings in YW. Please continue to express interest and comment/email with what ever!!! Because of you I keep this blog going!

April's Personal Progress Motivator

Sorry this has taken me so long to get posted but I finally have it ready to go. I will post pictures of the finished product a lil later on (It seems like I always lack with pictures and getting them up with the posts).

Anyway here is what I am doing. I am taking a tag and punching a hole on the side...taking some ribbon and looping it through and then tie the other end around some candy (in this case mini Twix candy bars) and setting the ribbon tied candy inside a plastic egg. Then of course setting it in a wicker basket with easter grass.

Here is the tag: 7 to a page PDF



March's Personal Progress Motivator

Is finally up and ready to download for your enjoyment. It took me some time but I finally found some super cute St. Patty's day digital scrap kits that was free from Delicious Scraps! Make sure you check it out!

So this is my idea for using this little gem. I have found some yummy Grandma's Sugar Cookies (you know the kind that alsways make the super yummy, but oh so rich pink frosted ones?) that were half the size of the original pink cookie and had green frosting and St. Patty's day sprinkles on them! (I found mine at Wal-Mart for around $2.75 for 10). I will put each one in a small little baggie and tie it up with some green ribbon and attach the tag. Super easy right? I will post some pics of how mine turns out as soon as I get them made (I ran out of ribbon *sigh*).

Click HERE to download PDF- 10 to a page

Alright, so I finally got the ribbon I was missing and have pictures now to post for you!

Here are the items I used.

 Ok, so not quite the Grandma's Cookies that I descibed but they still taste just as yummy!

Here is a close up of the cookies...it had green and white sprinkels with little green shamrocks! 

Found these bags at Wal-Mart in the party section, for a pkg of 20 it was $1.50!

Finished Product

Another Picture of the finished product!

Made 20 of them! Whew....

February Personal Progress Motivator

February's motivator is up for download. Will be adding pictures once I get them put together so you have an idea of what I am trying to describe.

Here is what the saying looks like, this will be taped to one side of the conversation heart box.

For this project you will need:

box of conversation candy hearts

ribbon (I bought some red Valentine's Day ribbon from Wal-mart)

pencils (again valentine's day pencils from Wal-mart, package of 20 for $2 assorted)

copy of the saying (CLICK HERE FOR PDF -SET OF 8)

mini printable of calander month (create your own, my brother created mine using Publisher so I don't have a file to offer you for those)

double stick tape

scissors

single hole punch

 

Trim the calanders but leave enough space on the side or on top to punch 2 sets of holes big enough to slip a pencil through. Cut out the saying (found on link above) and tape onto one side of the conversation heart box. Tie the pencil with calander attached to the box with ribbon. Ta-da! Your done!!

January's Personal Progress Motivator

Here is the first of 12 Personal Progress motivators.

Keep checking back for the rest!

 

January 2011-Don't "FLAKE" Out!

Here is what you will need:

1. Fake snow (I used Buffalo Snow Snowflakes because of the irradescence color).

2. Ribbon (I used white)- about 10 inches in length per bag/tag

3. Those small baggies that you can find in the craft/jewelary section

4. Copy of the tag (which can be found HERE for download- PDF 8 to a page)

5. Single hole punch

6. Scissors

Stuff each bag with some of the snow flakes and seal. Line up the tag and bag and punch two holes through both items. Thread your ribbon through and tie a bow.

(Saying and idea was taken from the Young Women Personal Progress book by Linda Dastrup)