From: owner-lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com (lds-yw-digest) To: lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: lds-yw-digest V1 #102 Reply-To: lds-yw-digest Sender: owner-lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk lds-yw-digest Tuesday, June 2 1998 Volume 01 : Number 102 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:40:23 EDT From: Subject: (lds-yw) Value Files: Choice & Accountability (4 of 8) Scott Richard G. Making the Right Decisions I speak primarily to the young men and women of the Church throughout the world. Your circumstances and personal challenges vary tremendously, yet each of you is in that period of life when you make decisions that will affect the entire course of your life. I come to you as a friend with a sincere desire to help each one of you to obtain the greatest and most lasting benefit from this critical period of testing. I speak as I would to a son or daughter to communicate what I know to be true. I pray that you will understand the importance of three principles we will discuss. May there come promptings to you from the Lord through the Holy Ghost regarding their application in your life. I recognize that many of you will understand what I say because of decisions already made. I pray that others will be prompted to make the same personal commitments, for this counsel will have limited value until that is done. I will explain with an example. My parents gave me a beautiful watch for high school graduation. I looked at it frequently because of the love it communicated. Each night I carefully cleaned and wound it. As years passed, I often neglected to wind the watch. Consequently, it stopped being useful, often when I most needed it. Today I use an automatic watch. It is consistent and always gives me the correct time. It is totally dependable. I never need to worry whether I can count on it or not. I realize that as with watches, there are differences in youth. Some need to be wound up, while others are automatic because of important decisions already made. I commend you who are automatic, who have committed to be true to the Lord and to live by faith when you cannot see the end from the beginning. When faced with choices, you select the path consistent with the teachings of the Savior. I know you are sometimes criticized by those who call you fanatical, who cannot understand why you don't do what the crowd does. Hold fast to your principles. You cannot today remotely imagine what that decision to be unwaveringly obedient to the Lord will allow you to accomplish in life. Your quiet, uncompromising determination to live a righteous life will couple you to inspiration and power beyond your capacity now to understand. To others, if an honest evaluation of your life reveals a continuing dependency on individuals or things that are not good, please listen. I sincerely want to help you. If you understand and use the principles we now review, they will bring you great reward. The first principle: Place the Savior, His teachings, and His church at the center of your life. Make sure that all decisions comply with this standard. This principle will see you through periods of testing and growth. Upward growth occurs in cycles that build upon each other in an ascending spiral of capacity and understanding. They are often not easy, but they are always beneficial. As you walk the path of righteousness, you will grow in strength, understanding, and self-esteem. You will discover hidden talents and unknown capacities. The whole course of your life may be altered for your happiness and the Lord's purposes. The next principle: Recognize that enduring happiness comes from what you are, not from what you have. Real joy comes from righteous character, and that is built from a pattern of consistent righteous decisions. When the things that you acquire are used as tools to help others, they won't rule your life. Your righteous decisions determine who you are and what is important to you. They make doing the right things easier. For happiness now and throughout your life, steadfastly obey the Lord, no matter what pressure you feel to do otherwise. And now the last principle: Stay morally clean. Any sexual intimacy outside of the bonds of marriage, and I emphasize that means any involvement of the sacred, private parts of the body-is a sin and is forbidden by God. While the world has other standards, you must stay morally clean. There are many reasons. Chief among them is that it is a commandment of God, the violation of which He considers to be serious sin that will bring great suffering. To ensure you keep this sacred commandment, in moments of quiet reflection when [p. 35] you feel the influence of the Holy Ghost, set specific personal standards of what you will do and what you will not do when temptation comes- for it surely will. Then, when you find yourself in the battlefield of life, don't change your standards; don't abandon them no matter how you feel, no matter what pressure is applied. Satan will use rationalization to destroy you. That is, he will twist something you know to be wrong so that it appears to be acceptable and thus progressively lead you to destruction. Love, as defined by the Lord, elevates, protects, respects, and enriches another. It motivates one to make sacrifices for another. Satan promotes counterfeit love, which is lust. It is driven by a hunger to appease personal appetite. One who practices this deception cares little for the pain and destruction caused another. While often camouflaged by flattering words, its motivation is self-gratification. You know how to be clean and live a righteous life. We trust you to do it. The Lord will bless you richly and will help you keep clean and pure. How can you keep your resolve to live worthily? How can you be sure that your resolve will not be eroded by the pressures around you? Choose good friends, those who have made similar decisions in their lives, those like yourself who are wise enough to live a life of order and restraint. When one gets off track, it is generally because the other kind of friends were chosen. Be surrounded by true friends who accept you the way you are and leave you better because of their association. Consistently live the truth you already know. Much of the disappointment and tragedy that youth encounter comes from misuse of the increased freedom to act that is necessary for you to grow. Now, when you have increasing responsibility for the decisions you make in life, you will make them wisely because of your unwavering determination to obey the Lord. You will learn that the restraints provided by the teachings of the Lord actually form a platform to greater freedom. If they are hurriedly dismantled in the misuse of increased personal choice, there will result binding chains of transgression. Don't be found in compromising circumstances. Seek counsel from those who are worthy. Pray in faith for help. Go to your Father in Heaven. He wants to help you, but because of your agency you need to take the first step. Important lessons will be learned as you are on your knees. Some will distill in your mind and heart as you seek to establish the right balance in your life. Powerful personal development will come through urgent prayer offered in faith from a foundation of righteousness. When all the challenges pour down on you, you will have a quiet inner feeling of support. You will be prompted to know what to do. You can live in a world of turmoil and great challenge and be at peace. You will be inspired to know what to do and to have the power or capacity to do it. Remember this promise of the Lord as clarified by President Harold B. Lee: "Ye are to be taught from on high. Sanctify yourselves [that is, keep my commandments] and ye shall be endowed with power." (D&C 43:16.) I know that the principles we have discussed are true. They have been proven in my own personal life. With my companion, Jeanene, who excels me in every worthwhile quality, I have walked the path shared with you today. I know these truths are correct. I pray that somehow there will come a reinforcement through the Spirit to your mind and heart of their great worth when they are challenged in your life. (See D&C 8:2-5.) Test your daily thoughts and acts against the principles we have reviewed. Are you making progress toward them, or have you begun to wander down destructive paths? Life is a workshop where you can test the correctness of the principles you have chosen to guide your life. Now is the time to set your course, to establish fundamental priorities. You will learn to select from many good and bad things those that are righteous and most important. Young women, use the inspiring Young Women Values and the referenced scriptures to help you do this. Young men, use the scriptures regarding priesthood to give your life focus. I encourage both to use the pamphlet For the Strength of Youth. It will bless you in your resolve to be pure. As the mighty eagle, you can rise to glorious heights. You can discover truths that will ignite your spirit. Do you believe that? I know you can. As you combine positive experiences of life with eternal doctrinal truths, you will discover what it means to be a divine child of a Father in Heaven who is perfect. As you apply His truths, they will generate vision in your mind and commitment in your heart. You will be inspired and can have power beyond your own capacity. You can qualify through that divine power to be instruments in the hands of God to accomplish what you could not do alone. You will learn to make reality of your worthy dreams for the future. You will be led to see a vision of your true potential and then, through obedience to correct principles and the consistent, appropriate use of moral agency, begin to convert that potential into reality. We love you. We need you. We pray for you. You are the instruments the Lord will use in the future. Please pray about what I have said to gain your own witness until you [p. 36] know that it can happen. And then, as you are righteous, it will happen to you. As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others, helping them realize more of their divine capacity. Like a worthy magnet, you will draw others to a higher standard of life. The power of your worthy example is increased as you help others caught in the web of transgression and guide them into a harbor of safety where there is parental strength and priesthood inspiration, where they can repair through repentance the strained and damaged parts of their character. Many yearn to overcome transgressions that bind them to a path they really don't want. While public actions denounce any desire to change, privately they want to change but don't know where to begin. Be that saving influence in their lives. Help them. In closing, I return to my automatic watch. It is powered by a solar cell and to function must be exposed to light. We are like that. We operate on light and need a constant renewal of that light. If we drift into a path where there is darkness, it can be extraordinarily difficult to come back. You will not have that challenge because you will live in the light of truth. There is one more blessing that will come from your decision to obey. Of all, it is the most beautiful, but the most difficult to talk about. As you stay morally clean and consistently obey the teachings of the Lord, your love for your Savior will deepen, your understanding of your Father in Heaven will broaden, and you will love them more and more, until all you really want to do is to know their will and, with their power, do it. I know they love you. They know each one of you personally. They know every detail of your life, every thought, every desire to strengthen yourself and to change. Be obedient to them, and they will bless you with the power to be obedient to their teachings. I so testify in love for you, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. ________Today...I Can Choose Author Unknown Today comes with built in decisions, great and small. The clothes I put on, the road I travel, the people whose lives I touch...in fact, nearly everything in my day depends on how I choose. Today I can choose to carry the blame myself, or to hold out a helping hand...to shout out loud in anger, or to wait ten seconds...to cloud someone's mind with doubt, or to lift a heart with encouragement. Today I can choose to count stars or to count mud puddles. When I go to the store, I can choose to see how much there is to buy instead of how much I have to pay. When I get stuck in traffic, I can see, in every other car, a person just as important as me. Today, because I live in a free land, there are a thousand things I can choose: The neighborhood I live in, the friends I laugh with, the work I do, the thoughts I think, the dreams I dare. And what I will become, in spite of my fears and failures, in spite of the talents I lack, in spite of all the privileges I never had, depends on how I choose to challenge myself today. For I have power, if I choose, to act instead of complaining...to speak out instead of cherishing a hurt...to seek justice instead of getting even...to love the world instead of waiting for the world to embrace me first. What I choose today may well be the cause of my tomorrow. Today...I shall live as I choose. Let me choose wisely and well... "You Knew What I Was When You Picked Me Up" By: Iron Eyes Cody, Reprinted from Guidepost, November 1989 On film in Hollywood I have played many American Indian roles.... the warrior, the medicine man, the chief wearing his double-tailed eagle headdress and smoking the peace pipe. And in a TV spot for the "Keep America Beautiful" Campaign, I was an Indian drifting alone in a canoe. As I saw how our waters were being polluted, a single tear ran down my cheek, telling the whole story. All three versions of my public service "tear" commercial are still playing after 17 years. But now I have another story to tell, an old legend, with a warning as potent as that tear. Many years ago, Indian youths would go away in solitude to prepare for manhood. One such youth hiked into a beautiful valley, green with trees, bright with flowers. There he fasted. But on the third day as he looked up at the surrounding mountains, he noticed one tall rugged peak, capped with dazzling snow. I will test myself against that mountain, he thought. He put on his buffalo shirt, threw his blanket over his shoulders, and set off to climb the peak. When he reached the top he stood on the rim of the world. He could see forever, and his heart swelled with pride. Then he heard a rustle at his feet, and looking down, he saw a snake. Before he could move, the snake spoke. "I am about to die," said the snake. "It is too cold for me up here and I am freezing. There is no food and I am starving. Put me under your shirt and take me down to the valley." "No," said the youth. "I am forewarned. I know your kind. You are a rattlesnake. If I pick you up you will bite, and your bite will kill me." "Not so," said the snake. "I will treat you differently. If you do this for me you will be special. I will not harm you." The youth resisted for a while, but this was a very persuasive snake with beautiful markings. At last the youth tucked it into his shirt and carried it down to the valley. There he laid it gently on the grass, where suddenly the snake coiled, rattled and leapt, biting him on the leg. "But you promised……" cried the youth. "You knew what I was when you picked me up," said the snake as it slithered away. And now, wherever I go, I tell this story. I tell it especially to the young people of this nation who might be tempted by drugs. I want them to remember the words of the snake: You knew what I was when you picked me up. - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:49:24 EDT From: Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Senior Night - Moments in Time In a message dated 98-06-02 01:29:25 EDT, you write: << All different kinds of clocks maybe with cute faces. >> No it's not dumb at all... I don't know if I have cute graphic pictures like that... but that would be cute. Also, Shiela suggested cute clocks that everyone brings from home. I guess the key word here either way is "cute"...... so it just depends on what I can find. I better start looking Ü I really like the idea of the families decorating parts of the gym also...great idea!! (Jennifer take note!!! I would DEFINITELY DO THIS NEXT YEAR IF YOU ARE GOING WITH OUR THEME!) How much notice do you think they need??? Senior Night is a week away... (I know, I know.. you are all wondering WHY IS SHE JUST NOW THINKING ABOUT DECORATIONS???? Well... it is a loooooong story... but the short version of why I wasn't thinking about it weeks ago is that weeks ago I was handling the crisis of the moment then! It's been one of those springs... and winters!) I appreciate ALLLL your help. Any ideas you have shared helps me a TON... even if you think it's just a thought here or there. It gets my brain going in a way I wouldn't have thought of on my own & new possibilities become apparant. So it ALL helps! Thanks so much for being such a great support & a fun little break in the day every once in awhile!!! Stacey P.S.Keep your ideas coming if you have any more of them on decorations Ü HUGS - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 10:18:22 -0600 From: Lisa Stamps Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Laurels and RS This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------9CECDD0569CB0B64E4DE9500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We just had a great presentation on this very topic. Our stake RS presidency came in with a goofy skit which portrayed a laurel on "trial" for her feelings about RS. In a silly way they put the issues "on the table" so that they YW didn't feel like they were the only ones thinking things like: "they're all old," "no one will talk to me," "it's all about being a mother," "I won't make any friends," "I'll be the only one like me," and "what about a singles ward?" It was very useful. Our stake policy is to allow the YW to chose when they come in: any time after they turn 18 until fall when school starts. We have several going both ways. It seems to work. One of the biggest lessons I (as a "grown up") was reminded of by the presentation was that once we turn 18, age doesn't matter as much. In school, work, ward, everything, people just don't ask anymore. You're a grown-up, and that's that. The stake really emphasized how much our YW can bring to RS and how much the members of RS can share with them... Jhenrick@aol.com wrote: > I would like some ideas you are implementing on the transition for laurels to > Relief Society. This is a difficult transition for some of them. I told my > Laurels that they are allowed to stay throughout the summer, and then the big > move happens. > > Julie > Jhenrick@aol.com > > - > To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - --------------9CECDD0569CB0B64E4DE9500 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Lisa Stamps Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Lisa Stamps n: Stamps;Lisa org: The China Connection email;internet: china@xmission.com title: President x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard - --------------9CECDD0569CB0B64E4DE9500-- - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:13:41 -0600 From: "Charmaine L. Peck" Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Laurels and RS We talked about this in a Stake Council meeting, because it seems to be a problem. There are wards who tried a "pilot" program of having the laurels all come to Relief Society once a month, come to homemaking, go as visiting teachers, etc. I had a real problem with this because they are still young women, not Relief Society sisters, and I believe in sticking to the handbook. So the Stake Presidency had the Young Women presidents and Relief Society presidents meet about this topic. We came up with this: Each Relief Society will call a "Young Single Adult Specialist" who will actually fellowship, if you will, the girls coming into RS. They will make personal invitations to things, make reminder phone calls, sit with them if necessary, just really give them a lot of attention. If there are enough girls coming in, they will call another Relief Society teacher and they can have their own classes for awhile. BUT, since then, our stake got a single adult ward, so.....gotta love change. Hope this helps. Charee Peck, Stake YW President, South Salt Lake Stake serryp@burgoyne.com - -----Original Message----- From: Jhenrick@aol.com To: lds-yw@xmission.com Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 9:41 AM Subject: (lds-yw) Laurels and RS >I would like some ideas you are implementing on the transition for laurels to >Relief Society. This is a difficult transition for some of them. I told my >Laurels that they are allowed to stay throughout the summer, and then the big >move happens. > >Julie >Jhenrick@aol.com > >- > To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:17:47 EDT From: Subject: (lds-yw) Choice & accountability files (did they come as Attachments?) Choice & Accountability file 1 & 2 of 8 came to me as attachments.... if anyone out there got them as attachments, and can't open them, please let me know and I will split them and resend them. - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:16:54 EDT From: Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Laurels and RS In a message dated 98-06-02 11:42:00 EDT, you write: << ideas you are implementing on the transition for laurels to Relief Society. >> Our Stake & Ward Relief Society Presidents are really focusing on this & making efforts to help this transition. Apparantly many sisters are "lost" during this time & miss out on a wonderful support system and worse fall away from the church. So far... here is what has happened in our ward/stake... The Stake had a special breakfast & program for all R.S. sisters and invited the Laurels as special guests. The program was called "Seasons" --- humorous & focused on the different seasons of women's lives & how we all learn & grow & love each other, etc. There were displays around the rooms with the Laurels pictures & things written about her so that all the sisters could get to know them better. (The Young Women Presidents did this) Also, our ward Relief Society has been inviting the Laurels to Homemaking meetings every few months... for some fun ones they think they'll enjoy. They have come & do enjoy it! Also, our ward Relief Society is going to be making a quilt for each graduating Laurel to take with them to school or where ever. They are doing this at the next homemaking... will be tieing them (their parents are donating the fabric & picking out something that will coordinate with whatever they may be planning to take to school) & then will present them to the girls from the sisters. They are hoping this will help the girls to feel an appreciation, love & some kind of bond towards the sisters & they will know how much they are loved. And the Relief Society President asked a girl or two to come in one Sunday in Relief Society and to listen & to then privately "critique" it with her... meaning just see if she had any thoughts from a Laurels viewpoint of what she especially enjoyed & what could be ideas that would help it be interesting to the Laurels. Lastly, (for now!) the Relief Society sisters are going to learn some of our beautiful young women songs to be able to sing sometimes in their opening exercises... for them to connect with the girls & for the girls to hear something familiar sometimes in Relief Society. Hope that helps! Stacey P.S. I would suggest that the R.S. coordinate with the Young Women.... ours really hasn't & we had made plans to make quilts for them and so now obviously aren't going to. Also, it would have been nice to have coordinated what week some Laurels weren't going to be in our class on Sunday... or at least to just have let us know! I think they are all WONDERFUL ideas & it's great they are focusing on this... I'm ALL for it ... they just need to be considerate & coordinate a little with us. Does that make sense? Ü - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 00:32:41 -0800 From: handtalk@bitburn.org (Teresa Coates) Subject: (lds-yw) PP & Lessons >Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 01:27:37 -0400 (EDT) >From: RnDGardner@aol.com >To: lds-yw@mail.xmission.com > >I bought this manuel three years ago when it was being used for the first >time. The copyright date is 1993. I have a page viii that is titled, > >"Young Women Values Correlated with Lessons." > > The curriculum of the Church is designed to each all of the principles of >the gospel. The lessons in this munual are part of that total curriculum, >and many reinforce one or more of the Young Women Values. Some lessons do >not relate to a specific value but are important in the total curriculum for >Young Women. When possible, you may want to imcorporate discussions of the >values into appropriate lessons. Following are some suggestions for doing >this: > >Faith: I am a daughter of a Heavenly Father who loves me, and I will have >faith in his eternal plan, which centers in jesus Christ, my Savior. (See >D&C 14:7) >Appropriate Lessons: 1,2,15,22,23,24,25,26,29 > >Divine Nature: I have inherited divine qualities which I will strive to >develop (See 2 Peter 1:4-7.) >Appropriate Lessons: 1,10,13,18,22,41,42,48 > >Individual Worth: I am of infinite worth with my own divine mission which I >will strive to fulfill. (See D & C 18:10.) >Appropriate Lessons: 12,13,14,32,33,38,44 > >Knowledge: I will continually seek opportunities for learning and growth. > (See D&C 88:118.) >Appropriate Lessons: 8,9,16,17,18,36,39,40,46,47,50 > >Choice and Accountability: I will remain free by choosing good over evil and >will accept responsibility for my choices. (See Joshua 24:15.) >Appropriate Lessons: 4,11,17,27,28,31,34,35,43 > >Good Works: I will nurture others and build the kingdom through righteous >service. (See 3 Nephi 12:16.) >Appropriate Lessons: 3,5,6,19,20,21,30,49 > >Integrity: I will have the moral courage to make my actions consistent with >my knowledge of right and wrong. (See Job 27:5.) >Appropriate Lessons: 7,14,15,36,37 > > >So you can check to see if the lesson titles are the same here are a few: >1 Drawing Closer to Jesus Christ >2 Spirutual Gifts >3 Building the Kingdom of God >4 Obeying Commandments Helps Us Fulfill Our Divine Roles >10 The Priesthood: A Great Blessing >14 The Blessings of the Temple >19 Preparing to Teach Others >22 Counseling with the Lord >25 The Law of Sacrifice >32 The Importance of Life >38 Physical Health >43 Wise Use of Leisure Time >48 Communication Skills in Leadership > >I was really surprised when not everyone had this page in their book. Let me >know if the lesson titles match up - now I'm curious. > >Debbie Gardner >Irvine Stake, CA > - -------------------------- If at first you don't succeed, deny trying. ;-) - -------------------------- - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 09:20:35 -0700 From: edbowman1@juno.com (Elaine D. Bowman) Subject: (lds-yw) Re: lesson This year our stake YW gave us the lesson schedule. All the wards in the stake are on the same lesson each week. It works out great. The lessons are scheduled around a value each month and the 4 stake activities per year coordinate with the value. We try to center our ward YW activities around that value also. Example: for the month of March our value was "Choice and Accountability" with the following lessons 1. The Blessings of the Temple #14 2. Temple Marriage #15 3. The Importance of Life #32 4. The Sacred Power of Procreation #33 The stake that month also presented "The Mock Wedding" as a stake youth activity that coordinated with that value and lessons. The activity was a wonderful experience - the youth are still talking about it and so am I! It was very moving and spiritual. This also saves me the headache of coordinating a lesson schedule which is a great deal of work! Elaine _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 00:33:09 -0800 From: handtalk@bitburn.org (Teresa Coates) Subject: (lds-yw) PP & Lessons >Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 13:24:05 -0700 >From: Cindee Nielsen >To: lds-yw@mail.xmission.com > > Our President did a list, corresponding lesson numbers with values. We >choose a value per month, along with other seasonal themes (for example, >Charity is our ward's assigned value at camp for 1998, so our monthly >theme is Charity in May to prepare for camp). The color is listed as a >reference to the value color, or the color of the decorations we will >use for the seasonal themes. The list we will be using to plan lessons >is as follows: > >Month Theme Color Lessons >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >January Faith White 2,23,24,29 >February Individual Worth Red 12,32,33,44 >March Knowledge Green 8,45,46,47 >April Integrity Purple 25,34,36,40 >May Charity Pink 7,9,21,49 >June My body is a temple White 14,15,37,38-39 >July Pioneers/Patriots Red/white/blue 3,16,17,31 >August Good Works Yellow 5,6,19,30 >September Divine Nature Blue 10,13,18,48 >October Choice & Accountability Orange 4,28,35,43 >November Thanksgiving Brown 11,20,41,42 >December Savior/Christmas Red/green 1,22,26,27 > - -------------------------- If at first you don't succeed, deny trying. ;-) - -------------------------- - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:31:09 EDT From: Subject: (lds-yw) Wanted AD by Pres Kimball A "wanted ad" posted in the Church News by President Kimball, 1960. Wanted * youth who will listen to the council of those who have lived life and know the joys of obedience and the sorrows of disobedience. * youth who will live their life unchained by the faddish fads, uninfluenced by the idiosyncrasies of the oddballs and weird would be leaders. * young folks who will not, like sheep, jump over the cliff merely because the whole band before them leaped to their destruction below, but youth who stand by their guns, yielding only to those social and crowd pressures that wisdom labels proper. * youth who will resist all antisocial influences against proper development: youth who will lead in proper dance and foster group activities for many teenage years. * youth who will be masters, rather than slaves, of styles and customs: bright youth who maintain a middle of the road course in modest makeup, hairdos, dress, talk, dance and dates, avoiding the chains of radical extremes. * youth who, though outnumbered in a group, dare to stand firm in principle through criticism and taunting. * A young generation who will yield to no unrighteous pressures, surrender to no cheap practices, submit to no immoral activities, youth who will die before sacrificing honor and virtue. Have a great day... My friend sent me a bunch of her YW files.. thought I would share a few. Pam in Denver - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:30:06 EDT From: Subject: (lds-yw) Royal Generation.. Ezra Taft Benson You are a royal generation. The Heavenly Grandstands are cheering you on. ( Isn't that a neat thought!) We are fast coming to the close of this game. The opposition is real and is scoring. But we have scored, we are scoring, and we will score in the future. The Lord is our coach and Manager. His team will win and we can be a valiant part of it If we so desire. Rise up, O youth of Zion! You hardly realize the great divine potential that lies within you. May you all follow your leader, Jesus Christ, and increase mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was listening to a youth talk tape once and the speaker made reference to this quote.. He said, Remember being in grade school and lining up against the wall picking teams? Every day is like that, only we pick the teams to play on. The captains are Satan and Christ. We choose if we want to be part of the dream team, a bench warmer, or simply be on the team. We know the out come, Christ will win. What remains to be seen, is where you and I will be standing on the last day. Pam in Denver - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 09:39:08 -0700 From: "S. Lee" Subject: (lds-yw) World Wide Celebration I know that I have asked this before, but I am hoping that since a couple of months have past that maybe some new ideas have surfaced. I am curious to know what everyone is planning to do for the "Culminating Activity" in November. I have heard some say that they are combining it with YWinE and others are doing something totally separate. Please post your ideas (this time I will print them off so I won't have to ask again Ü) again. In our stake we are having a combined stake celebration. We are meeting at the stake center and having each ward (7) participate. We have made a list of choices for the wards to choose from. Perform a skit, display art, share testimony, share feelings about theme, and a couple more that aren't coming to me right now. This will all be done revolving around "Turning the heart to the family". The yw and their parents are invited, it's an hour and a half and we will serve refreshments and probably do a cutsie mormon crafty handout Ü (someone else will have to handle that, not me) Please share what your ward/stake is planning. Thanks. Shiela - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 09:41:26 -0700 From: "S. Lee" Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Senior Night - Moments in Time Stacey, I think a week is enough notice for parents. I also liked the idea of recruiting the Beehives/Mia Maids to help decorate. Delegate!!!! You'll enjoy the activity more if you're not bogged down by it!!! Shiela Ü SPrice9OOO@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 98-06-02 01:29:25 EDT, you write: > > << All different kinds of clocks maybe with cute faces. >> > > No it's not dumb at all... I don't know if I have cute graphic pictures like > that... but that would be cute. Also, Shiela suggested cute clocks that > everyone brings from home. I guess the key word here either way is > "cute"...... so it just depends on what I can find. I better start looking Ü > > I really like the idea of the families decorating parts of the gym > also...great idea!! (Jennifer take note!!! I would DEFINITELY DO THIS NEXT > YEAR IF YOU ARE GOING WITH OUR THEME!) How much notice do you think they > need??? Senior Night is a week away... > (I know, I know.. you are all wondering WHY IS SHE JUST NOW THINKING ABOUT > DECORATIONS???? > Well... it is a loooooong story... but the short version of why I wasn't > thinking about it weeks ago is that weeks ago I was handling the crisis of the > moment then! It's been one of those springs... and winters!) > > I appreciate ALLLL your help. Any ideas you have shared helps me a TON... even > if you think it's just a thought here or there. It gets my brain going in a > way I wouldn't have thought of on my own & new possibilities become apparant. > So it ALL helps! > Thanks so much for being such a great support & a fun little break in the day > every once in awhile!!! > > Stacey > P.S.Keep your ideas coming if you have any more of them on decorations Ü HUGS > > - > To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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