2017 Young Women's Brain Dump

A quick place to dump the random young women's pictures from last year.

New Beginnings and the Pie throw.  If they did personal progress in the certain time set, they could win pies to throw at the leaders.  

Karen Hilton, Mariah Lingwall, Natalie Parker, Me, Crystal Bartlett

Girl's camp first aid certification, where I got to do some makeup for the injuries that needed to be treated:

Brynn suffocated, Casidee with a cut, KyleeTuckfield choking, Yuritzi Huerta with broken bones, Angel Downward with a snakebite, Erin Jacoway with a burn.

 A visit to the family history library, which is really cool now that they have all sorts of interactive elements to it.  I found that I'm 10th cousins with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, so, you know, day made.

Back row: Simone Parker, me, Jackie Hall, Crystal Bartlett, Lindsey Webster, Danna Hyde, leader from another ward. Front row: Evynn DeHann, 2 girls from another ward, Jayme, Erin Jacoway.  And Natalie Parker's face.

 Swimming.  Because we could.

Alex Liljenquist, Evyn DeHaan, Cali, Kayla Evans, Tayler, Casadee Bartlett, Gabriella Hurst, Luke Parker, Simone Parker, Lindsey Webster, Jayme's friend McKenzie, Jayme, Sean, Max Parker, Casidee and Brynn.

Tayler made the slide show:

Young Women

As of now, 2017, I have been serving in the Young Women's organization for seven years.

And I hope there is no end in sight.

I love every aspect of it, and I adore these Young Women.

And even now, as I attend the wedding receptions, and even their sealings, speak at the mission homecomings, and continue to support them as adults, they will forever be my girls.

Here are some 2015 Young Women pictures.

As well as the first time we did pies for personal progress.

We gave them a 6 week challenge.  For every experience they completed the could earn one pie to throw.  For every project they completed, they could earn 10 pies.

Random Acts of Kindness Scavenger Hunt:

Hiking Dimple Dell and learning about the Pioneers:

The many, many times they fill my phone with pictures when I wasn't looking:

And goofing around in the church:

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.