Young Womens

Our ward has been keeping me very busy as of late. For the past year and a half that Dillon and I have lived in this ward we have been the Sunday School teachers for the 16-17 year old class. Last spring I got put in as the Secretary for the Young Women's organization and now, for the second year in a row I have been the YW volleyball coach and Girl's Camp assistant director. So yes, if you need help counting, that means I have 4 callings right now. All of which have been keeping me very busy between practices, games, meetings, and activities. But I love it! I love working with the youth in our ward and in particular the young women. We have some very challenging young women that keep us on our toes, but all of them are so so fun to be around! On February 3rd and 4th we braved it all and took our girls on an overnight, New Beginnings, outing at our Bishop's cabin in Ashton. We really had SO much fun!

The mutual theme for 2012 is "Arise and Shine Forth" so Saturday morning we got the girls up bright and early and hiked a short ways up to the top of a hill right behind Bishops cabin. Up there the Young Women's president (Dillon's aunt) gave a short little devotional introducing the theme. After that we watched and waited for the sun to come up over the Tetons. It was cold but I would say very worthwhile. After the sun came up we hightailed it back down to the cabin to warm up and finish our devotional. We had all the older girls prepare a little story and a short little message about a woman from within church history that 'arose and shone forth' as an example to us all. After that each of us leaders read a letter that a parent of each new beehive from 2011 and 2012 wrote about them to introduce them into the Young Women's program.
The rest of the day we got to spend all day out in the snow with sleds and snowmobiles. I know that the girls had a good time and from what they say a good experience. I know that I sure enjoyed it. Even Dillon said it was better than he expected. Haha, yes, Dillon got to go too. Bishop called the week before we went and asked him to come as an extra priesthood so it wasn't just Bishop with all us girls. Although he was not thrilled about the idea he did admit when we got home that it was fun, thanks to the snowmobiles. haha. Such a good sport I married :)

Eating dinner at Big Judd's Friday nightFriday night pony tail partyMe and another leader made one of these for each girl. The plan was to light them, pass them out, then hike to the top of the hill with the lanterns lighting the way. That didn't happen. But they were still cute :)Devotional Sat morning waiting for the sun to come upPlaying in the snow