Overcoming Opposition Handout-YW manual 3 Lesson 23

Yesterday our YW lesson was on overcoming opposition.

Here is the hand out that I made for my Laurels.
CLICK HERE to download this handout

I printed up this little handout on card stock with the scripture reference of D&C 29:39

"...for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet."

Then wrapped it up in a small cellophane bag filled with Sour Patch Kids.

And tied it up with a match ribbon.

Too cute!!

"Worth of SOLES..."Board Meeting

One of the first things that I did when I recieved my new calling was plan a board meeting with our YW board. The whole presidency, (besides me) was new and most of the advisors had been in less than 6 months. I really wanted everyone to meet each other and feel comfortable in their new callings.

So stealing an ADORABLE idea from my BFF April, I put together a quick board meeting.

The Theme: "The worth of SOLES is great..."

D&C 18:10

I asked each YW leader to bring a shoe that best describes themselves so that we could get to know each other a little better.

That evening I had each of my councilors go over an important part of the YW program. One talked about the basics of the Personal Progress Program. The other talked about the importance of teaching by the spirit.

I then spoke about important things we needed to do to become great YW leaders. Using talks, quotes & scriptures, I related all the aspects of a good leader to the perfect pedicure. I gave each of the leaders a "Pedicure Menu" with all the quotes and talkes I referenced and put it inside a small bucket filled with pedicure kits.

Of course, I FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE HANDOUT!! Dang, I HATE when I do that. But I do have a copy of the "Pedicure Menu" that went with each item in the bucket.

CLICK HERE to download the YW Spa Menu (2 per pg.)

The evening turned out great!! And was also fun to give each of the new leaders a cute handout.

Getting our YW Personal Progress Organized

Since I've been called as the YW President in my ward (which by the way...was a total shocker to me...but that's another story for another time). I have felt a VERY STRONG need to get our YW working on their Personal Progress. I am bound and determined to have each of my YW get their Young Women Medallions.

 Sooo...here's how we are getting started on it...

A PERSONAL PROGRESS PIE night. The girls HAD to have their PP books with them in order to get a peice of pie. Then with the help of my AMAZING 2nd councilor & Laurel class Presidency we came up with a Personal Progress folder that we had each of our YW put together that evening at mutual. We put EVERYTHING that we could think of that the YW would need to work on PP into this folder.

It was a lot of work and took a lot of time searching for items online for the folder BUT all in all, it was TOTALLY worth it!!

I am attaching a list of what we included in our PP folders for any of you who'd like to do the same for your YW. Feel free to use whatever you'd like from what we did to save yourself some time & energy.

YW FOLDER CHECKLIST:

WHITE 1" FOLDER

ZIPPER POUCH to hold

     Personal Progress book & journal

     For the Strength of the Youth Booklet

     True to the Faith Booklet

1 PLASTIC SLEEVE

     Quote from Ezra Taft Benson (front)

To DOWNLOAD the pages BELOW that were used for my YW PP folder CLICK HERE

Picture of the Temple (back)

3 WHITE TAB DIVIDERS:

Tab 1: ROSTERS/CALENDARS

Tab 2: YW ESSENTIALS

YW Theme

YW Motto & Logo

YW Classes & Symbols

The Living Christ (ordered from Distribution Center)

The Family Proclamation (ordered from Distribution Center)

13 Articles of Faith

TAB #3: PERSONAL PROGRESS

Personal Progress Tracking Sheet

Colored Cardstock Value Dividers with notebook paper between each value

(made each image in Black & white and then copied them onto cardstock in the value colorS.

To DOWNLOAD the YW value folder dividers CLICK HERE

Book of Mormon Reading Chart to go with VIRTUE.

After assembling their folders the YW scrapbooked covers for them. We just printed a couple different subway art pages that they could use on the covers and then let them decorate with whatever we had.

YW VALUES SUBWAY ART
(I didn't create either of the YW subway art below, so I don't have a link for you to download them :( SORRY!)

YW THEME SUBWAY ART

2011 MUTUAL THEME SUBWAY ART

To DOWNLOAD the 2011 Mutual Theme CLICK HERE