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Young Women in Excellence, Young Women’s Program, LDS Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)

November 16, 2014 by shelley

Young Women in Excellence, Young Women’s Program, LDS Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)

“it’s a Jungle Out There” Welcome Sign

(I have added the printables for this event.)

Young Women in Excellence, Young Women’s year-end recognition program for the Kansas City First Ward, Kansas City Missouri Stake was held October 29, 2014. The theme for the event was “It’s a Jungle Out There” and we really did it JUNGLE!

You can download the sign here: “It’s A Jungle Out There” Welcome Sign

We decorated with palm trees, vines and large jungle animals.

Setup of refreshment table

Young Women in Excellence 2014 “It’s A Jungle out There”.

Jungle Sign Welcome

Jungle theme refreshment table

Palm tree decorations

Refreshment table

Hippopotamus

Lion

Rhinoceros

Zebra

Tiger

Monkey

Toucans

Crocodile

Giraffe

Elephant

Palm Tree

For refreshments we had an oasis with a “water”ing hole and gatorade. Jungle animal water bottles were used.

Jungle Animal Water Bottles

Gatorade

“It’s a Jungle Out There”

Watering hole

Gatorade

Oaisis–drink table

Refreshments included: “Animal Cookies”, “Gorilla poops” (no-bake cookies), “Frogs in Grass” (frog gummys with sour apple licorice straws and spearmint leaf gumdrops, “Gator Poops” (green sixlets), “Jungle Vines” (licorice), Cupcakes with animal topper, Banana Candy, Gator Gummies, jungle animal eggs with candy, jungle mints, Jungle Jollies candy and a TRAIL MIX BUFFET.

Young Women in Excellence 2014 “It’s A Jungle out There”.

“Frogs in Grass” (frog gummys, apple sour licorice straws and spearmint leaf gumdrops).

“Frogs in Grass” treat

Refreshment table

“Gorilla poops” (no-bake cookies)

“Gorilla Poops” (no-bake cookies)

Jungle mints

Animal Cookies

Jungle Animal Eggs with candy inside

Candy in egg

Jungle Jollies candy

Banana candy

Gator gummys

Gator Gummies

Jungle theme refreshment table

“Jungle Vines” (licorice)

Jungle Vines (licorice)

“It’s a Jungle Out There” Refreshment Table

Cupcakes with animal topper

Cupcakes

“Gator poops” (green sixlets)

“Gator Poops” (green sixlets)

The TRAIL MIX BUFFET!

Trail Mix Buffet

Our Decorations

Palm Trees

Setup of refreshment table

Young Women in Excellence 2014 “It’s A Jungle out There”.

Palm Trees

Young Women in Excellence 2014 “It’s A Jungle out There”.

Palm Trees

Tiger

Hippopotamus

Zebra

Rhinoceros

YW Jeep

Front table

Young Women in Excellence 2014 “It’s A Jungle out There”.

Back table

Palm Trees

Table in Foyer

Welcome Sign

Palm Trees

Giraffe

Palm Tree

Refreshment table

Giraffe and Palm tree

“It’s a Jungle Out There”

Program table

Our Program

The Program

Inside the “map”

Program YWIE 2014 inside

Back of the “map”

Program YWIE 2014 back

Download the program here:

back .doc format Program YWIE 2014 back or .pdf format Program YWIE 2014 back;

inside: .doc format Program YWIE 2014 inside or .pdf format Program YWIE 2014 inside;

cover .doc formatProgram YWIE 2014 outside cover or .pdf format Program YWIE 2014 outside cover

The cover:

Program YWIE 2014 outside cover

It was printed on 11 x 17 inch paper. And then folded like a map for the program.

The invitation was a “passport” with a “boarding pass”:

The “passport” invitation

The “boarding pass”

The boarding pass

Outside of envelope:

outside of envelop

Pages of the passport invite to download (look in your download folder): files are in .doc (Microsoft word) format, so changes can be made using Microsoft word. The page entitled Passport invite cover .doc is the cover-outside. The page entitled Passport Passport invite inside cover is the inside (printed on card stock). I printed one page for the front and turned paper over and re-printed on same sheet of paper for the back of cover. passport invite 2.doc are the inside pages (again front and back turned and reprinted on same sheet of paper). writing .doc was reprinted on the inside page. Pages were trimmed, inside inserted inside the cover, folded and stapled. (Hope that makes sense). Also the BOARDING PASS (also in .doc format). (It was folded and inserted inside the “passport”.) Adjustments might need to be made depending on your printer. I used a corner rounder punch since real passports have rounded corners. Included are the envelop labels I used on the envelopes.

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

: The “passport” invitation

Table in Foyer

Framed Sign: “It’s A Jungle Out There” in .pdf format Jungle Sign

Framed Scripture 1 Nephi 3:7:

Scripture _And it came to pass that I_

Download scripture: Scripture _And it came to pass that I_.doc format or Scripture _And it came to pass that I_.pdf format

The YW display boards:

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation Board

: YW Presentation board

: YW Presentation board

: YW Presentation board

: YW Presentation board

: YW Presentation board

Special Musical number, Nephi’s Courage (download music 2002-01-1050-nephis-courage-eng) or link to song Childrens Songbook 120 (listen to music)

Nephi’s Courage

Nephi’s Courage page 2

The event:

: Young Women

: Young Women

: Bennions

: Kelleys and YW leader

: Bennions

: Young Women and audience

: Young Women and audience

: Young Women and audience

: Young Women and leaders

: Young Women and leaders

: Young Women and leaders

: Young Women and leaders

: View of the room.

Links to Other Young Women events:

Young Women in Excellence 2013

New Beginnings 2013

New Beginnings 2014

New Beginnings 2015 Embark

Standards Night 2013

Standards Night-Molly Mormon Standards Trial

Mutual Activity Johnny Lingo (Individual Worth)

Young Women in Excellence…our preparations

November 16, 2014 by shelley

Young Women in Excellence our preparations…

The theme for our Young Women in Excellence this year is , “It’s a Jungle Out There!”

Welcome Sign

It came to us after listening to the stories of what our Young Women deal with on a daily basis…especially at their schools etc.

Big palm trees were fashioned from the inner cardboard tube of carpet rolls. We crinkled wide strips of kraft paper and hot glued it on the tube for the palm tree trunk. The leaves were constructed from wire hot glued down the center of cut out crepe paper leaves. Extra wire was left on one end and bent and stuck in the top of the tube. Stands were made from pressed board with 1 x 4’s cut and screwed on. The 1 x4’s were cut into sections 2 feet long. One end of the 1 x4 was cut on an angle to allow the trees to stand at angles.

The YW construct big palm trees.

Leaders were involved with the tree making also.

The YW construct big palm trees.

Each girl picked a scripture to represent her. Each girl also made a display including a presentation board that reflected her accomplishments and her personality.

Young Women work on their personal presentation boards.

Smaller palm trees were made from mailing tubes with the crinkled brown kraft paper glued on it with palm leaves stuck on top. The tubes were put in gravel in a cup and brown kraft paper over the cup.

Gluing crinkled brown craft paper to mailing tube for palm tree trunk

Crinkled brown craft paper to make palm tree trunk

base of smaller palm trees

Mailing Tubes to make palm trees

And jungle animals were drawn

Hippopotamus

Lion

Toucans

Monkey

Tiger

Zebra

Rhinoceros

Crocodile

Giraffe

Elephant

Palm Tree

Palm Trees

The Young Women that decorated:

Young Women that decorated.

The Young Women decorated for Young Women in Excellence:

Putting up “vines” in the jungle.

Scriptures chosen by the Young Women: scriptures

YW pictures and their scripture

Liberty Jail…Young Women’s Activity

July 13, 2014 by shelley

Liberty Jail…Young Women’s Activity

For our Mutual Activity we went to Liberty Jail, where Joseph Smith was imprisoned over the winter of 1838-39.

Liberty Jail

In 1833 a small jail was constructed in Liberty, the seat of Clay County, Missouri. In 1856 the building was abandoned. After a short tenure as an ice house, it fell into disrepair and was finally demolished near the turn of the century. Today, thousands of Latter-day Saints and other tourists visit the partially reconstructed jail and view it as what the LDS historian B. H. Roberts called a “prison temple” because of a notable prisoner it housed: the Prophet Joseph Smith languished within its four-foot-thick walls from December 1, 1838 until April 6, 1839. Sharing this incarceration were his brother Hyrum (see Smith, Hyrum), who served as his second counselor in the presidency of the Church; Sidney Rigdon, his first counselor; and three other brethren-Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, and Caleb Baldwin.

They were held on a variety of unsubstantiated charges stemming from the “Mormon War” (see Missouri Conflict), which had culminated in their betrayal and the fall of the LDS settlement of Far West, Missouri, a few weeks earlier. As they awaited trial, they suffered severe privation. Confined to the lower level or dungeon portion of the building, they slept on the straw-strewn stone floor with little light and scant protection from the Missouri winter. Alexander McRae described the food they were served as “very coarse, and so filthy that we could not eat it until we were driven to it by hunger” (CHC 1:521). He also recorded that several attempts were made to poison them.

Notwithstanding these trying physical conditions, Joseph Smith’s greater suffering seemed to come from his anguish for the thousands of Latter-day Saints, including his own family, who were being driven from the state under the executive order of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs calling for the extermination of the Mormons (see Extermination Order). In a very long, two-part letter to the Church, written between March 20 and March 25, Joseph cried out, “O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place? How long shall thy hand be stayed, and thine eye, yea thy pure eye, behold from the eternal heavens the wrongs of thy people and of thy servants, and thine ear be penetrated with their cries? Yea, O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions?” (D&C 121:1-3).

In answer, he was told to be of good cheer: “My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes” (D&C 121:7-8). Some of Joseph Smith’s most sublime writings are found in this letter. The counsel of the Lord concerning the proper exercise of priesthood authority (D&C 121:33-46) is among the most quoted latter-day scripture. Excerpts from the letter make up sections 121, 122, and 123 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

In early April 1839, the prisoners were moved to Daviess County for trial; and then while being taken to Columbia, Boone County, on yet another change of venue, they learned from their captors that, for a variety of reasons, it would be agreeable to the officials if they would escape. With the aid of their guards, the prisoners hastened to join the exiled Latter-day Saints who were gathering in western Illinois.

KANSAS CITY FIRST WARD YOUNG WOMEN

Kansas City First Ward Young Women

Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs

May 8, 2014 by shelley

As Young Women’s Leader in our ward I got to enjoy the experience of a multi-stake fireside featuring Andy Reid the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs on Family, Faith and Football. His wife Tammy was also a speaker.

Family Faith and Football Fireside

They have also spoke at firesides in Olathe and Platt City recently. The fireside was featured in both the Kansas City Star Newspaper and the Deseret News Newspaper in Utah.

He told the newspaper, “In our church, we try to get out and talk to members of the church and at the same time, anybody in the community that would like to listen about family, faith and football,” Reid told the newspaper. “Those are three of our favorite subjects and we just try to share our experiences with people.”

Andy Reid Fireside Faith, Family, and Football

LDS Young Women’s Camp Fundraiser…Girls on Fire!

April 1, 2014 by shelley

Girls on Fire!

We held our Young Women’s camp fundraiser. Girl’s on Fire!

Camp Fundraiser for Young Women’s Camp

We had an exhibition volleyball game, (YW vs bishopric) with creative rules in conjunction with a silent auction with donated items. Some of the creative rules were volleyball with hats, using a beach ball, multiple balls, sheet over the net, categories and hot potato.