Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Extraordinary Women from Church HistoryMy calling in Young Women means that I am anxiously studying a 2020 calendar with a highlighter and a pencil, filling in dates, noting ideas for activities, and working to balance various events over the course of the year to appeal to the broadest number of young women. And praying fervently all along the way.  Our plans for March involve preparing for an unprecedented, groundbreaking session of April conference. I anticipate we’ll be spending time at activities and Sunday lessons teaching and learning more about the ..read more

We have a 2020 Planning Meeting with the youth on the books for next month. We’ll meet together with all of our class and quorum presidents and try to make a few of the big decisions about what we want to do together as a ward youth program. Just like BYC, but for 2020. One of the things we’re doing in preparation for that meeting is sending out a Parent Survey: you can find a copy of that at this post. Another thing we’re trying this year is a Youth Survey: I want to get a better sense for what kind of activities the youth would like to do! Since 2020 will be organized around Spiritual ..read more

New callings! I’ve spent the last year serving in the Stake Young Women—a lot of new things to learn there—but just recently was pulled back into a ward Young Women’s calling.  This week I’m working on a Church Parent Survey. Our ward is very active and the parents are very involved: I feel lucky. As we plan for 2020, we want to have a good sense of what will work best for our families. We hope to fully support this Home-Centered and Church-Supported mandate that we keep hearing from our leaders. I listened to the video that we’ll be sharing on September 29 and feel really comfortable as ..read more