Come follow me- self reliance

Self-reliance is so much more than having enough food storage, it's having the abilities to find solutions to our problems and sometimes having the skills to endure the.  It's a process, a lot like the process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. 

 

Come Follow Me- repentance

Come Follow Me- Faith, is works

Come Follow Me- Savior

Adversity

Adversity is difficult to traverse, but if you look at nature adversity makes things better as a result of enduring the adversity. 

Take the butterfly,  without adversity the catepillar would stay a creapy, crawly bug.  But through the process of its transition, we have the beautiful, but short lived butterfly. 

How about coal.  without adversity, coal would stay black, crumbly and ugly, but with adversity we can have diamonds for our wedding rings. 

We need adversity to obtain eternal life.  Without adversity we can not grow, and develop and become stronger spiritual beings. 

Kimberly

This handout may help you.  I decided to merge a couple of the questions, about the premortal existance and why do my choices matter.  We know which choice we made in the Pre Mortal existence, the challenge is to continue to make choices that will help us stay on the path we desired when we made that choice.  Clearly, we each wanted to return to live with our Heavenly Father, and our family members who have gone before us. 

Come Follow Me February

The Plan of Happiness is an essential understanding that will help our Young Women understand their place in God's plan for them.  Many people in this world are searching to know where they came from, and where they are going once they die.  We are so fortunate to have this knowledge.  I came across this digiscrap kit a couple years ago, unfortunately I don't remember who made it, but I am indebted to them for their hard work.  We plan to pass these out at the beginning of the month as a reference throughout the next month.  

Kimberly

PS:  this is the corrected version

2013 Theme with Ogden Temple Rendition

I live in  South Ogden, Utah and our  temple distric is the Ogden Temple, which is currently under construction and has been closed since April 1, 2011.   I figured it would be ideal to use the rendition picture from the church website to use as that back drop for the 2013 Youth Theme.  The temple is not schedule to be finished until next year, but what a beautiful reminder of where we need to be. 

Come, Follow Me YW January Godhead

The last topic Who am I, and who can I become was a lesson our Bishop talked to the girls on our first week this year.  What an amazing discussion.  We wanted our girls to know that they are so much more than what they see in the mirror and we want them to focus on more than the slight imperfections these beautiful girls see in the mirror, they are amazing daughters of God.  The more they look beyond the imperfections in the mirror, they will see themselves the way God sees them. 

I have decided to upload the handouts that I am using for my class.  You may feel inspired to focus on other topics for your class.  This week we are going to focus on Prayer under the How can I know my Heavenly Father subtopic. 

A few months ago a friend of mine wanted to focus her YW lesson on helping the Young Women in her ward understand the importance of their existence, and their Divine Nature, part of her lesson included a song from 2010 EFY written and performed by Nicole Sheahan, I am his daughter.  I have found myself singing this song in my mind especially when I am stressed.  There is a YouTube video showing photos of women and girls from around the world.  Each of them are beautiful and you can see their happiness in their eyes. 

I too have a class full of beautiful young women who need to understand their true beauty.  Perhaps this handout can help your girls remember their importance as well. 

 The photos are taken from the church website and from google images of women around the world.  The elements of this handout are taken from a very special kit benefiting Mye De Leon's newborn son.  This kit is available at several digiscrapping sites until January 31st. 

 

YW Manual 1 Lesson 42

YW Manual 1 Lesson 41

The ability to succeed is more than becoming the most wealthy, powerful person on the planet... that of course is what Lucifer would want us to believe.  Success in this life is living our best life possible,  whether our choices in life lead us to raise a family unto the Lord or to live our life to bless the lives of those around us, each choice gives us the ability to succeed and Return with Honor. 

Kimberly

YW Manual 1 Lesson 39

YW Manual 1 Lesson 38

YW Manual 1 Lesson 37

YW Manual Lesson 36

YW Manual 1 Lesson 35

I have found it interesting the timing of these lessons.  At a time when we are choosing the next leaders of the free world, we need to remember the morals and virtues this countries foundation was built upon. 

We need to learn to get along and allow each other to choose rather than pass laws that ban free choice, while remembering the commandments and the Laws of the Lord.  Breaking those commandments lead to a life of self-doubt and self-worth. 

Our Heavenly Father sent us to this earth to obtain bodies and gave us the gift of Free Agency.

 As we learn in the Gospel, free agency has responsibilities.  We are to choose wisely what we do and say and how we act so as to not offend God and embarrass ourselves, our families and our ancestors.  So that ultimately, we can return to live with Him. 

(Sorry about the rant, I am a little bugged by the proposed ban on sodas larger than 16 ounces in NYC). 

Kimberly

YW Manual 1 Lesson 34

This lesson has so many wonderful ideas to help our young women navigate this world.  A world that is full of negative words, images, thoughts.  Our young women need a way to determine how to navigate through the negative influences to find the best influences in life. 

Kimberly

YW Manual 1 Lesson 33

Our youth are constantly under attack by Satan's minions.  The easiest way for him to attack them is through the media.  Our children are much more linked in than I was at their age.   Our children carry access to the internet in their pockets, they need our guidance to find their way home to their Father in Heaven.  I hope and pray the spirit will be present to confirm the importance of making decisions now, to avoid heart ache in the future. 

Kimberly

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