Young Women in Excellence is TOMORROW!

The young women and their leaders have worked hard to prepare this event to celebrate our lovely young women, their accomplishments, and their many talents. The only thing missing is you. Please join us in the Primary Room. It really just wouldn't be the same without you. ;)

Preparing for "Young Women In Excellence" -- a letter to parents

Dear Parents,

As we plan for our Young Women in Excellence Program, we seek to focus on the girls and their activities. We have a group of wonderful, busy, and accomplished young women in our ward. Your daughter is no exception.

Please help us show your daughters how amazing they are by participating with us on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 7 PM. We would appreciate it if you would take 2 or 3 minutes to tell about your daughter’s accomplishments. We see so much talent in each of them. Some talents are readily visible, like dancing or playing an instrument. Others are subtle, like being conscientious, keeping a clean bedroom, or reading the scriptures each day. We would like you to share with all of us what you see as your daughter’s greatest talent, especially those talents that we may not be able to see during the brief times we have to spend with her.

We appreciate your constant support of the Young Women program and your efforts to teach your daughters of their divine roll as women of God. Please join us in celebrating the goodness and light that streams from these young people.

Sincerely,

The Hobble Creek West 13th Ward YW Presidency

Ginny Duncan, President
Monica Blume, 1st Counselor
Amy Kelly, 2nd Counselor
Luann Hawker, Secretary

September 2009

September zoomed by at light speed, but we still managed to have some fun. Our combined activity with the Young Men was a trip to Deseret Industries in Provo. We all learned some things about the church humanitarian services, then we split into small groups and spent some time volunteering with various tasks in the DI sorting areas. The group in the photo above was assigned to sort through a bin of donated books and pick the ones that were in good condition and had content appropriate for resale.

The Young Women also started making preparations for our upcoming event, "Young Women in Excellence", which will celebrate the Personal Progress Program. The theme for the evening is "A Garden of Girls" and the date is set for Tuesday, October 27. Please note that this is a different date than was originally planned. We look forward to spending a wonderful evening with the Young Women and their parents.

October started off well with our first activity last Tuesday, October 6. We all took a short trip to the Provo Temple and the girls randomly visited with patrons as they were leaving the temple. They thanked the patrons for taking the time to serve the Lord in the temple, asked them what they loved most about their temple visit, then sent the kind strangers on their way with a plate of home made cookies. After all the cookies had been distributed, we gathered together to share some of the thoughts passed on by the temple patrons. The evening prompted a good discussion about why we attend the temple and the reverence we feel when we are there.




Here are the activities we have to look forward to in October:
October 13 -- YM/YW Combined activity
October 20 -- Cake Decorating
October 27 -- Young Women in Excellence