Sunday, October 21, 2012

Today in Young Women's I gave a lesson on "Avoiding Degrading Media."  Here are some of my visual aids and handouts:

It's a movie "goodie" box with handouts

for the lesson.

Warning label that some media can be

hazardous to your spiritual health.

This quote is by President Ezra Taft Benson.

It's been a busy weekend for the young women here in Vernon. Yesterday they did baptisms for the dead at the Snowflake Temple.  This evening they had Stake Young Women's in Excellence at the Show Low Stake Center.  Keep in mind that the temple is a 90 mile round trip and Show Low is a 50 mile roundtrip.  

Although the program started at 7 we had to be there at 6 for a song practice.  Sister Nicoll took the Applegate girls and I took Trenda Wilhelm, Mary Swift, and Kilee and LeeAnn Hunsaker.  Sister Soderquist is out of town at her sisters wedding.  This is the song we sang:

This is the song we sang.  It was introduced

at the General Young Women's meeting this year.

The featured speakers this evening were the President and Matron of the Snowflake Temple, Brother and Sister Baldwin who just happen to be the parents of our stake young women's president Sister Jones.  

President Baldwin thanks the young women for coming to the temple to do baptisms and then encouraged them to search for their own family names.  The last speaker was President Williams, the Show Low Stake President.  He wrote a letter to his 17 month old and 9 year old daughters and read it to the young women.

It was an enjoyable evening although I was disappointed that none of our girls participated in the Personal Progress aspect of the meeting.  There were displays set up in the cultural hall of value projects various girls had worked on.  We left around 8:30 for home since most of the girls get up at 5:30 for school.  

Program for Stake Young Women in Excellence.

I was gone this evening from 5:30 until 9.  When I left James was writing a letter to his children and their spouses.  When I returned he was just finishing it up and he said he had worked on it the entire time.  The letter is to express appreciation and to encourage them to keep the commandments, in particular, to keep the Sabbath day holy.  I do appreciate James so much!