LDS Young Women New Beginnings

“EMBARK”

New Beginnings “EMBARK”

The theme this year for mutual is:

“O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day” (D&C 4:2).

LDS Mutual theme 2015

We decided to use this theme for our New Beginnings.

We decided we would “Embark” upon a quest. This quest would take us to the

“Island of Love (Heart)”

The Region of Might”

“The Wilderness of Mind”

and

“The Country of Strength”

We started in the Relief Society Room with opening exercises and then we used four classrooms; one for each of the “quests”. The refreshments were set up in the Young Women’s room.

Our invitation:

New Beginnings invitation 2015

YW New Beginnings invitation: Embark New Beginnings Invitation .doc format, Embark New Beginnings Invitation pdf format.

Embark New Beginnings Invitation

Embark New Beginnings Invitation, pdf format

We used vintage stamps using the Nautical theme:

New Beginnings invitation 2015

Our program:

(Many of our printables came from the Red Headed Hostess Blog.)

Program cover (page 1)

Program inside cover (page 2)

Program page 3

: Program page 4

: Program page 5

: Program page 6

: Program back cover (page 8)

: Program page 7

Each girl received a nautical bag with goodies (mints and information folder) and an “Embark” necklace:

Nautical bag

Embark necklace

As each quest was accomplished they received a reward: A box of conversation hearts for the Island of Love (Heart), Lip Balm for the Region of Might, a sailor hat for the Wilderness of Mind, and an anchor charm for the Country of Strength.

Conversation Hearts upon completing quest on Island of Love (Heart)

lip balm upon completing the quest Region of Might

Sailor Hat upon completing the quest of Wilderness of Mind

anchor charm upon completing the Country of Strength

Instructions were given room by room:

Quest to the Island of Love (Heart)

Island of Heart

The Young Women did a “Heart Attack”

First the book, “Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch” was read to the Young Women.

Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch

And then each girl planned who they would give “hearts” to:

Heart Attack on the Island of Love (Heart)

Region of Might

Some of the Mightiest Women are found in the Scriptures or in our church history. We played a game of “Who Is It?”

Each girl gave clues as to their favorite Scripture or church history woman and everyone tried to guess who it was.

Women in the scriptures and church history are some of the best examples of a person (women) of might.

Region of Might “Who Am I”

Wilderness of Mind

The ability to know is not always an easy thing. Yet Joseph Smith stated:

“I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it, neither dared I do it;”

The Young Women watched a clip of the Joseph Smith First Vision and then wrote their testimony on paper.

For the movie clip we used the first 8 minutes of

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration

Joseph Smith First Vision

found on youtube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVw6PsSinI&list=PLGOMK5FZ-LJZIc2Wt7-eJujU6hOYVnNsI

After watching the clip of the Joseph Smith First Vision the Young Women wrote down their testimony.

Embark PAPER

Country of Strength

For the Country of Strength we used FOR THE STRENGTH OF YOUTH. In preparation for one Mutual Activity before New Beginnings we had each Young Woman make her own Mormonad. These were put up around the room along with Mormonads from the church. Each YW class prepared either a commercial or news broadcast or music video or cheer that had to do with FOR THE STRENGTH OF YOUTH.