Subway Art...YW Values

I tried my hand at creating a piece of Subway Art...

I used Picnik to create it. Click HERE for download jpeg or you can right click on the image above and save as.

"13th Night"

As promised from the short little blurb that I wrote last night from my phone, I am posting the details of last nights mutual activity.

The theme for the night was Being in the World but Not of the World or simply known as the "13th Night." 

We started out with the girls all repeating this years mutual theme, the 13th Article of Faith. Our idea for the nights activity was on the last words of "if there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things" and Elder Oaks talk on Pornography (which can be found HERE).

We had our stake president come in and talk to the girls, he is also a professional counselor and has had experience in the effects that pornography causes, plus our girls really responded well to him when he talked at girls camp. 

We had the girls and leaders sit in a circle so it was a little more intimate and so the girls would feel comfortable asking questions or making comments. Our stake president started off with some points that he liked in Elder Oaks talk and then proceeded with some current statistics which are and were quite alarming....for example if we took all the money that is spent on pornography we we could fix the national debt with in weeks. Considering there is about $180,000,000.00 spent in 60 minutes on the filth. Scary isn't it? He also mentioned that one in seven females get solicited. Even scarier!! 

He also brought up some great stories from the scriptures to drive his point. He used the story of David and Bathsheba (how thoughts turn into actions and so forth) and then he talked about Joseph and Potifer's wife (sorry if I spelled those name wrongs) and how Joseph knew what was wrong and how he made a commitment to avoid the temptations. 

We talked a little from our discussions how thoughts and being modest affect the young men that our young women associate with.  How being strong and committed to doing what is right can help them if they found themselves in a situation that would compromise their virtue when on dates or what not. The girls made a lot of great points and it made it for a great night to address some concerns and issues that our youth are being forced to deal with in the world that they live in. 

Tonights mutual activity

Hey everyone! We had a great activity tonight with our stake president that I just had to share (a more complete post will added soon). We had our "13th Night"  which focused on being in the world but not of the world and centering around the yw values of choice and accountability, integrity, and most importantly virtue. There was a lot of discussion and questions from our yw. It was just amazing so I will be posting about it tomorrow when I am more awake and focused.

Avoiding Dishonesty

Avoiding Dishonesty, lesson 34 from the YW Manual 3. 

Took my inspiration from the FSOY booklet. 

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Paper credit goes to Hot Pink Pansy!

Each Person is Divine & Eternal

Here is lesson 33 for the Young Women Manual 3- Each Person is Divine and Eternal. I just love this quote from President Gordon B. Hinckley. Sister Susan W. Tanner quoted it in her talk that she gave at the General YW Meeting in 2007. You can read her talk HERE.

The handout is a set of 4 with paper and element credit going to My 4 Princess Designs and Hot Pink Pansy. Thank you ladies!

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Service in the Community

Here is lesson 32 from the YW Manual 3- Service in the Community. Bookmark style handout with 3 to a page. 

Paper Credit goes to Plum Dumpling Designs from their 6 Bees Kit from the April LDS Blogtrain

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Service in the Church

Here is lesson 31 from the third yw manual. PDF set of 4.

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Paper credit goes to Dede Smith from the 6 bees kit that was available on the LDS Blog Train.

Camp Pictures....

Or at least what I was able to take...still waiting on some more (fingers crossed)

 Most of the above pictures were taken at around 630 in the morning....with the exception of the top photo

 One policy was that everything had to be put away before they went to bed...the items that were not were placed in the "UH OH" box (kind like a lost and found) and in order for the girls to get their stuff back they had to do something to earn it....here the two pictures above are of two of my girls "butt writing" their names...its really funny to watch....especially when you have them do their full name!

Pictures of our skit...we kinda did a night at the museum meets harry potter type of a thing. Since we were France our setting was at the Lourve and the girls were on tour and every time they would pass one of the "works of art" something would happen...ie the painting or statue would interact with them in some sort of way...cause the girls to get our security guard to have them look...nothing happens and everyone is still and in their places...etc...finally it ends with the tourist running out screaming and the art having a big party...in a nut shell.

The rest of my pictures were of the fire...I love fire so I couldn't resist taking photos of it...it was my down time so to speak