Saturday, July 24, 2010

Personal Progress: Good Works #3

This one requires that the girls think of 3 ways to help others, bear someone's burden, etc.  So I'm giving them 2 ways and they just have to come up with a third.

First we will make a little container.  It's someone's garbage (all cleaned up) decorated with paper, buttons, and a flower.  Then you put candy or a gift or something inside and give it away.
Then we will make a pocket card.
Hindsight advice:
-Don't get a flat tire right before the activity.
-Stand somewhere in the middle so they can all see better, rather than on one end.

Here are some pictures from the activity:

Saturday, July 10, 2010

July 2010

"I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth."
-D&C 93: 40
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"Teach them to walk in the ways of truth and soberness; . . . teach them to love one another, and to serve one another."
-Mosiah 4: 15
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"No matter what our family looks like, each of us can work to strengthen our own families."
-Barbara Thompson
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Luckily the one person on my visiting teaching route happens to be someone my mom recently took a family picture of.  So I got an 8"x10" photo printed and framed it behind a vellum copy of the Family Proclamation.  For anyone else, I would've just given them the frame to put a family picture in.

For a vertical copy of the Family Proclamation, go here.

Here is the horizontal one I made.  Not sure how it will print from Scribd, so if you want a PDF copy, let me know.
FamilyProc-horiz

Personal Progress: Choice & Accountability #7

I had done this activity with Cub Scouts, so I decided to try it on the Young Women.  The other leaders have specific roles in this: 2 store clerks, a banker, a bishop, and a few bosses.  The bosses give the girls work to do (cleaning the church) and pay them for the work.  The girls can choose to spend that fake money on little toys at the store, pay tithing, or put money in savings.  At the end, we discuss their choices and I give them their budget assignments.  I also give them a prize, depending on the choices they made (i.e., their "eternal reward").

I learned quickly that this was not a good idea.  I realized it too late to change plans, though.  The main problem is the cost.  When you do this with little boys, you go to a store and buy a giant bag of plastic bugs for a tiny price and the boys are thrilled.  Teenage girls' tastes are far more expensive.

Hindsight advice: Never do this activity with Young Women.  If you do, spend some time in advance shopping at the stores, waiting for good stuff to be really cheap.  Also, stickers are a great prize for little boys.  Not for teenage girls.