Stand Ye In Holy Places and Be Not Moved: New Beginnings 2013

I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Right now I have the privileged of serving with the young women (girls age 12-18) in my ward.  Technically I get to teach the girls who are 16 and 17 years old in church on Sunday.

This has been an amazing experience for me, and it's changed my life for the better.  The studying that I put into those Sunday lessons has left its impact on my personal life, and I'm grateful for it.

Every year a theme is set for the Young Women and Young Men's programs.

This year the theme is Stand Ye In Holy Places and Be Not Moved.

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At the beginning of the year the Young Women hold a program called New Beginnings where we invite the girls who will be turning 12 years old during the year, and thus joining us in Young Women's, and we introduce them to the theme and to the activities and programs that we do in the Young Women's program.

Casidee (and Jayme) were invited last year (here).  This year it was Brynn's turn.  She'll be turning 12 in September.

Cas was asked to speak about the theme and she did an excellent job.

If there's anything that I want my girls to take from this year's theme it would be that no matter where they are, it is a holy place, simply because of who they are.

Daughters of God.

There's a good video on that here.

Casidee did a great job talking about just that.

The girls brought their favorite shoes and talked about how they can stand in holy places in them in their lives.