LDS Escape Room – Personal Progress Activity for Good Works
Shared by Korina M. “Tonight for Mutual we made a escape room. I didn’t tell the girls tell they were [doing personal progress, too!]. But when they were done they had either finished or started all of the Good Works value experiences for personal progress! Anyways not overly complicated the girls had fun. ” Editor’s note – an escape room is…
S’more themed Evening of Excellence
We based the evening of Excellence on Elaine Dalton’s Young Women Let’s Give Them S’mores talk. 9/17/2011 church news and based the program on Virtue experience #1. For the theme, we had a fake campfire in the center of the room (logs glued in a log cabin formation on a wood board covered with tissue paper and “lit” with a…
Young Women Value Quest
In this “quest for value” the young women will be divided into two teams with at least one leader each. They will play 7 games relating to 7 of the YW values and, at the end, should emerge with 8 value-colored flags. The way to win is to complete all of the games and get all of the flags before…
New Beginnings Super Bowl Theme Ideas
Here are some ideas for a football themed New Beginnings: ———— We invited all the Young Women’s families. We used the Salem Utah Stake’s idea of Kick-off and tailgate party. We had our Opening and then did a skit with the Young Women on teamwork. Using their playbook (personal progress manual) and values for the presentation on teamwork. The rookies…
Patty and the Personal Progress Operator
We had a fun New Beginnings evening with a 50’s theme. Decorations included old LP’s with labels on them going with the different values. We had helium balloons of the different value colors also attached to glass ice cream sundae dishes as centerpieces at the tables. We also had Skittles in the centerpieces. We called it the “Heavenly Sweets Ice…
The Biggest Gainer: New Beginnings VIDEOS
Hi There, I’ve been told by many people that I should get this online, so here it goes! For New Beginnings this year we came up with a spoof off of the show “The Biggest Loser”, (where people transform their lives by losing weight). We created the following live skit and video called “The Biggest Gainer”, where we’re gaining the…
General Conference YW Challenge from Naperville 2nd Ward
“Decide now to make general conference a priority in your life. Decide to listen carefully and follow the teachings that are given. Listen to or read the talks more than once to better understand and follow the counsel. By doing these things, the gates of hell will not prevail against you, the powers of darkness will be dispersed from before…
Personal Progress Value Cakes
The Naperville 2nd ward had a great idea for food at YW in Excellence “DESSERTS: It’s hard to see but we had 8 cheese cakes, and the toppings were in our 8 value colors. A huge baker’s thank you to our dear YW Pres. Sis. Wutzke for all her work! Yummy! White: “whipped cream” for Faith, “Blue: “Blueberries” for Divine…