Just A Reminder...

I just wanted to remind everyone that the YW/Mother Dinner and Young Women Recognition is this Saturday, March 27th at 5:30pm. Joy and Becca will be receiving their Young Women in Excellence and it will be a wonderful evening had by all! We hope you can make it!

Individual Worth

Individual Worth

"What man of you, Having and hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?"

Luke 15: 4

The signs of the times are all around us. Recently, earthquakes in Haiti and Chile have brought devastation to those areas. In the song we sang for New Beginnings, "Strong and Courageous",  it stated, these are perilous times. There are dangers that we face on a daily basis, both temporal and spiritual.

In these areas of devastation the people involved are focused on one thing...finding their loved ones. Is that not what the Savior is doing daily? In the scripture above we see the individual worth of the one sheep. Let's turn it around. Do we see the individual worth of the Savior? Do we understand that He alone is the only one that can save us?

Many of us see the affects of confusion about ones individual worth. There are those who are confused about their gender, the importance of family, or living a virtuous life. While we have these things explained to us through the scriptures and a living prophet, others do not know about these important things. And there are others still, who have these helps at their fingertips and still do not have a full understanding.

While earthquakes are turning temporal things into rubble, sin can turn spiritual lives into that same rubble. Although we can clean up the messes that are temporal, only Christ can clean up spiritual messes. He will look into the rubble and find a precious gift... Us.

May we all find strength and worth in the Savior as we think and pray for those who are in need this day.

Charity: An Example of the Believers

This is a wonderful video that I hope inspires each one of you to reach out to those who you associate with who may be in a need of a friend. The high school, Syracuse High, featured in this video was where the young women that I previously severed with went to school.

How will you be an example of the believers? What will you do to make a difference in the life of another?

Love Sister Eastham

Personal Progress Value Projects

Here are some ideas for ten hour projects if you are needing some ideas. There are a bunch of ideas at sugardoodle.

Faith:
- Memorize “The Living Christ” (inside PP pamphlet). As you do , consider the Savior’s influence in your life.

- Think of faith as a seed as you help plant, care for, and harvest a vegetable garden.

- Take a family history class through your ward or branch and collect stories of your relatives or others who have demonstrated faith. You may also interview family members or others.

- Read the entire Book of Mormon and follow the instructions found in Moroni 10:4

- Write original stories, poems, or songs, or complete a visual arts project that illustrates your faith in Jesus Christ.

Divine Nature:
- Develop a skill you could use in your future home, such as cooking, sewing, making repairs, or designing. Teach that skill to someone.

- For an extended period of time, serve someone in need, such as a young mother, a person with disabilities, or an elderly person.

- List the roles of a women as taught in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” and carry out a project that helps you learn more about one of those roles.

- Using an art or handicraft you have learned, make something for your future home

- Carry out a project that will promote unity in your extended family, your school, or your community.

Individual Worth:
- Compile your personal or family history using journal entries, pictures, and important papers.

- Instruct or tutor someone in an academic subject, music, a sport, or an artistic skill.

- Carry out a project to improve the living situation of someone in need.

- Direct or participate in a youth choir, a play, a talent show, or an art exhibit

- Learn a marketable skill that could help you in a current or future occupation.

Knowledge:
- Learn how to organize, clean, and maintain a home from your mother, grandmother, or another woman you admire.

- Prepare for higher education and obtaining marketable skills by learning about college or trade school entrance requirements, scholarships, tuition, and other expenses. Apply for entrance when appropriate.

- Read D&C 89. Improve your health by developing and implementing a regular fitness program and learning to cook and eat food that is part of a healthful diet.

- Prepare to instruct others by completing the Teaching the Gospel course taught in your ward or branch.

- Working with your mother, grandmother, or a sister in your ward or branch, master a home arts skill she teaches you

Choice and Accountability:
- Using For the Strength of Youth as your guide and under the direction of your leaders, organize or participate in a discussion group, fashion show, or other event to help you and other youth live the Lord�s standards.

- Under the direction of your leaders, help plan and direct a youth dance or other activity that features appropriate dancing instructions and wholesome music, lighting, and atmosphere.

- Create and implement a program that encourages the wholesome use of television, music, computers, Internet, and other media forms in the home. Share your idea with others.

- Learn basic clothing alteration and repair techniques as you adapt your wardrobe to standards of modest dress.

- Learn to be more orderly in your home by completing a cleaning or organizing project.

Good Works:
- Help plan and participate in a project to clean or beautify your community.

- Prepare to be a homemaker by collecting recipes, shopping for food, and preparing meals for your family.

- Work with a family member to gather the names of some deceased relative who were not members of the Church. Identify their birth and death dates and submit their names to the temple. Help plan a temple trip and do baptisms for those relatives.

- Receive training for a skill to use in emergency situations, such as first aid, resuscitation, or life-saving skills.

- Serve others. Volunteer in the community, gather items to meet humanitarian needs, spend extended time assisting with child or elderly care, or tutor in school or in your community.

Integrity

- Help plan and participate in a project to clean or beautify your community.

- Prepare to be a homemaker by collecting recipes, shopping for food, and preparing meals for your family.

- Work with a family member to gather the names of some deceased relative who were not members of the Church. Identify their birth and death dates and submit their names to the temple. Help plan a temple trip and do baptisms for those relatives.

- Receive training for a skill to use in emergency situations, such as first aid, resuscitation, or life-saving skills.

- Serve others. Volunteer in the community, gather items to meet humanitarian needs, spend extended time assisting with child or elderly care, or tutor in school or in your community.

2010 Mutual Theme

In preparation for our New Beginnings program, this video introduces the 2010 Mutual theme. 

(Turn off the music below, before starting the video)

Divine Nature

"Be Loyal to the royal within you, for you were born daughters to a king."

This months lessons will focus on Divine Nature. So what is Divine Nature? It is a part of you which is inherently divine and inherently you. It defines you in an eternal way. Sometimes it seems like Divine Nature and Individual Worth are the same thing. We know that we are unique individuals and that we have Divine Parents. These things seem to mesh the two. But lately I have understood more about Divine Nature. I learned more by asking myself questions like these:

What parts of me are divine?

I think my talents, my abilities, my righteous desires, my mental and spiritual capacities, and my ability to become like my Heavenly Parents are all divine parts of my nature.

What are your Heavenly Parents like?

They are good, pure, all-knowing, and all-powerful. They live in an eternal family unit. They are parents.

What is your Divine Nature? What defines you? Who are you? You are a Daughter of God, Sister,  Friend.  Part of our Divine Nature is every noble characteristic that makes us better daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, and friends. So look within yourselves and label yourselves again. What do you see? I see the glorious potential to become like our Heavenly Parents. 

New Beginnings Assignments

YOUNG WOMEN NEW BEGINNINGS OPENING CEREMONIES

Program Assignments:
Parker- Opening Prayer
Claire- Theme
Hayley- Music Conductor
Rachel- Torch Leader/Program Conductor
Lauren- Sariah (faith)
Aryn- Mary (divine nature)
Becca- Elisabeth (individual worth)
Hannah- Emma (knowledge)
Danae- Hannah (choice and accountability)
Callie- Ruth (good works)
Nicole- Esther (integrity)
Joy- Eve (virtue)
Laura- Closing Prayer

Treats: Please bring a treat in your assigned value color (be creative)...

FAITH- Nicole, Marlene
DIVINE NATURE- Danae, Hannah
INDIVIDUAL WORTH- Rachel, Rhianna
KNOWLEDGE- Joy, Parker
CHOICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY- Becca, Callie
GOOD WORKS- Laura, Morgan
INTEGRITY- Lauren, Aryn
VIRTUE- Claire, Hayley