Young Women lesson on Friends/Friendship

Here is the link to this lesson, and I hope it works for you!https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57771560/Katie%27s%20Friendship%20lesson/The%20key%20to%20friendshisp%20%20is%20to%20try%20to%20be%20like%20Jesus.docx

I have finally finnished what I think ended up being a great lesson on Friends. Our ward is going through the topics of the For the Strength of Youth booklet, and it is my turn to teach. I do have a great lesson but I have no idea how to turn it into a format compatible to put on this post.

The lesson is actually being called... the Key to Friendship. I will attach my printables and images I will be using.

The lesson in a nutshell is that the Key to Friendship is to be as Jesus Christ. We will focus on the song "I'm trying to be Like Jesus" sung by the MoTab choir and there is a beautiful slide presentation that I found with lots of different images of Jesus during his birth and ministry. I am selecting a few stories about Jesus that demonstrate friendship such as the Paralytic who was lowered through the roof, to get to Jesus, by his friends.... The story of the woman caught in sin and Jesus not judging her, and the story of Jesus walking on water, and lifting up Peter, his friend and disciple when his faith had faultered, and so forth. I believe it turned out great.

I have a bronze jewelry tree, that I have hanging on the branches, antique skeleton looking keys tied on a ribbon. Attached to the key is also a tag with the image of Jesus, and the backside of the tag has the words printed at an angle "I am trying to be like Jesus", looking like a watermark. (I have included this tag) That will be the handout along with a printable that I also created and will include on this post. Feel free to use them in your lessons as well. Enjoy! Katie G.



Easter Card for Young Women

I went to a store here in Utah that has these sugar eggs, that have a cute little scene inside of them.  Anyway, for a case of 6 dozen of them, it was only $3.  I was looking for things for an Easter Egg hunt for my grandchildren.  Well my grandchildren are taken care of and so I had two dozen left, and thought I would let the Young Women I work with in my ward, know how I feel about them.  So... here is a card that I drew up and you can feel free to use it if you like. 

I left the inside blank so that you could write a little note to the Young Women and personalize it for them.  Enjoy!  Katie G.

ipodd (Individual Progress of Divine Daughters) New Beginnings

This ipod image I drew up was blown up large
enough to have the different aps, pasted to the
screen.  The aps are explained in the skit.

This past month my wards YW had their New beginnings program.  The girls did such a great job of planning and carrying it out.  They wanted something unique and together they created a skit that the setting was an iPODD store, and three of the girls were employees.  They had three others who were customers and they proceeded with the skit. 

I am YW secretary and I had created the iPodd Owners Manuel that the girls referred to throughout the skit that explained different things.  (I will insert in this post, the many pages of the owners Manuel if you want to use them in your ward or stake)

It was very cleaver and turned out cute.  The props were very simple and mimicked the iPod design, though the silhouettes were the Young Women int he different value colors, and then black head phones were attached to the silhouettes. (see silhouette photo)

So the pages aren't in the correct order, but you will be able to see when you print them the order that they will go, as these are in print order, for front and backside of each sheet of paper.  The cover doesn't have anything printed on the opposite side of it, but all the rest do.

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Now for the Script:

I have had so many requests for this script, and did have at one time the dropbox link to it.  With changing of computers, that dropbox link faded off into the sunset.  HOWEVER, today I was finally able to locate that script again, and here is a new dropbox link to it.  You will have to personalize it like we did, but at least you can know how the actual skit was presented.  By the way, it was really cute and the girls loved doing it !

 https://www.dropbox.com/s/l2ey40kvpv09two/Ipodd%20Skit%20for%20New%20Beginnings.pdf

Enjoy and Best regards,

Katie Gauger

Define the 13 articles of faith.

I found a great handout on the 13th article of faith, on a cute blog called the Red headed hostess.  The link is here http://theredheadedhostess.com/?p=953,  I wanted to use this idea in a meeting I have tomorrow morning and wanted it to match some other handouts, so I drew it up differently than what she had on her blog. I suggest yo go to her blog as she has some really great ideas and printables. 
Enjoy!  Katie G.

2011 Young Womens Theme

This year the Theme for Young Women and Young Men's is the 13th article of Faith.  I have designed for you to print and give out to your Youth a bookmark.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating them.
Enjoy!  Katie G.

This is an invitation that I designed for our Young Women in Excellence.  It was a marathon theme, and was an evening where the girls figureatively ran a marathon from stop to stop, learning about each girls value projects, and focusing on the values that would help the girls run to win their marathons in life. 

This is just alittle printable set of two cards that can be uses as thankyous, or whatever.  The one on the bottom is of a young Alice in Wonderland, and perfect for sending a nice note to a Young Women, or to use for an invitation to a Young Women activity.