Be Strong and of Good Courage – Youth Conf 2010

For the past 5 years I have served in the youth. Currently as the 2nd counselor to our YW Pres. I’ve served as advisor, president, in the stake presidency and every time I’m always hoping for a change. But in all honesty, I love serving the youth. They keep me young. LOL. J/k. This past weekend we had our ward youth conference. We were at Camp Williams Military Base from Thurs July 8th to Saturday July 10th. Ended with our Sunrise Service Sunday Morning at our Stake Park. I had a good time. And I know for a fact our youth kids enjoyed themselves.  Motivational speaker, workshops, utimate freezbee, song tree, leadership course/obstacle course, repelling, waterballoon, talent show/stomp/peotry reading, dance, service project, swimming, testimony meeting, sacrament program, food and fun.  I'm glad we won't have to worry about another one for another 2 years.. 

Pictures coming soon...

Zumba in Zion..haha

For our personal progress activity this month, Audra our awesome PP advisor planned a mother/daughter Zumba night. Asked BZC instructor Teresa Auva’a to come out and teach us. We extended the invite to all the mothers in our ward and had a good turn out. We got kinda worried when Teresa shows up and there is only 2 of us there. As we are about to begin, ladies started showing up…YAY. We used our gym and had everyone from the primary, young women, YSA and Relief Society, old and young following along. Couldn’t help but laugh at our older ladies. I tell ya, they were trying their best to keep up and did well. It was a good work out and I just love Zumba more and more. We had a lot of good responses from it. And even some who want to attend Teresa’s class. One gal has the Zumba workout DVDs and she loved Teresa’s workout better. Fun night working out together with my sisters in Zion. Now they know that working out doesn’t have to be boring. Yay for Zumba!!!

Temple Square

Our Beehives class activity this month was at the Temple Square.

It was a scavenger hunt.

Listen to the message at the Christus.

Go through the God's Plan for Family presentation.

Learn more about the Tabernacle.

Listened to the Mo-Tab choir practice.

Talk with the sister missionaries about why they chose to serve.

Watch a short film at the visitor center.

Go to the top floor of the JS building to the restaurant. Find info.

Where and what is written on the temple.

And sooo forth...

We had a good time.

The girls were loved the messages shared there.

Was reminded of the importance of families.

Learned a few new things.

I could not believe what I've been missing out on.

I live 5 minutes away and never taka a minute to check it out.

It definitely will be a good family night out location.

I love my calling and being able to serve the young women.

The Beehives are a fun group of girls.

They make my calling easy to do.

I love their excitement with everything we do and learn.

And the sweet spirit they bring into all that we do.

Forgot the camera in the car...Boo me!!!

Cooking with the YW

Cooking is always a last minute activity we tend to do when all else fails.  But this time around we decided we would have the girls do everything.  From start to finish.  No help from the leaders at all.  We wanted to give them a chance to cook a full course meal in hope that one day they can take what they've learned and cook for their family.  I know for me personally, I didn't cook until I was 21 years old and didn't have mommy there to cook for me..  Sad isn't it.  I hope the girls won't wait til then but take every opportunity to give their moms & dads a break from cooking. 

The Laurels had the main dish.  They made baked french onion chicken. 

The Miamaids had salad and appetizer.  They tossed together a green salad and made a layered dip.

The Beehives had dessert.  Made peach cobbler served with vanilla ice cream.  I totally slacked and missed out on a piece of peach cobbler.  Snooze you lose..sucks to be me!

Thanks girls for working together and putting together a delicioso meal. 

Speed Dating

I know what your thinking...Speed Dating. No not for me...hehe.. To go along with it being Valentines this month our young men leaders planned a speed dating activity for our youth combine this month. The youth had a great time getting to know each other better and finding out things about each other that they probably would have never known. We hope it helped them have confidence in themselves to talk to others and even of the opposite sex. Don't worry, we made sure everyone understood the importance of waiting til your 16 (actually 21 for samoans..lol) to date, dating in groups, dating those with high standards, dating to protect each others honor and virtue. Not getting serious with the first person you THINK you love (lol) etc. I know our youth kids enjoyed themselves and learned alot about each other and what to look for when they are of dating age. Another fun and spiritual activity to add to the books. I think this is one activity we need to have our YSA (Young Single Adults) do...hahahaha.

Beehive 2010 Calendar Craft

I guess you can call it a craft..hahaha. Anyhoo, I had to think of an activity to do with the beehives this week. As I was camping on blogspot world i came across a blog and found this calendar made by one of the many talented women out there.

So tonite we all decided to try it out. I wish I had thought to take pictures of the girls calendars. Everyone did an awesome job. So creative. I on the other hand am just plain jane and actually copied a template that was already made for the paper i chose. No fun for me. LOL. The girls can easily tear out past months and add in future months. So the beehives have no excuse for not knowing about an activity. : ) I made sure to add in every ward and stake youth activity on the calendar. I'll update the calendar every 3 months so that they each girl will have updated info. What have I gotten myself into... LOL. Here is a shot of mine.

Couldn't find any pics to fit. So I will be draggin my kids out in the cold to get some shots soon. Hopefully.

I've enjoyed reading and seeing all the wonderful craft ideas out there. I hope to get into it and craft my life away...hehe. I am not crafty at all. Or creative too. So hopefully by reading all the great ideas out there I can come up with some cool stuff.