Let Her Ask of God

The young women went to the multi-stake formal dance.  Like last year, we got together before the dance to get the girls ready.  Laura and I were cranking out hairstyles like crazy.  It was so fun and the girls looked beautiful!

I taught a lesson about our Divine Heritage, Daughters of a King.  We made crowns then I did a coronation ceremony where I read some of their divine qualities (I had the parents email me a few qualities they see in their daughter).  It was so fun!  My girls wanted to make crowns too.

I led a mutual activity all about nails.  I used my stamps to do some nail art and I also showed them how to do marble nail polish with a bowl of water.

The stake had a special conference for the young women.  One of my friends is in the stake YW presidency.  She asked if I would make the flier for the activity.  They didn't have any direction of what kind of theme they wanted.  So I thought about the title "Let Her Ask of God" and I came up with the idea that we need to communicate with Heavenly Father through prayer, it's kind of like a phone call.  Since it was for the young women I thought the cell phone idea would be fun.  The stake leaders loved it!  So I ran with it!  This is what I came up with!  It was so fun to put together!  I'm so glad they asked to me help!

When I went to the YW conference they had us make name tags.  My friend noticed that it looked like my dinosaur necklace was talking!  haha!

The twirls are so good at going to primary now!  They just run off to join their teacher, Sis Dyal, who is amazing!  They have each given prayers in opening exercises and they did such a great job.  Jake whispered in their ear because they were too nervous to do it alone, but they repeated it in the microphone just fine.  Scarlett gave a talk.  It's so fun to watch her read it all on her own.  The primary president told me I should record her talk, haha!  So I did!

The twirls just love their teacher.  She and Scarlett's teacher are way super amazing.  They send home Family Home Evening packets and all sorts of clever crafts and projects.  We have missed a few Sundays due to illness.  A few days after missing class the twirls have gotten packages in the mail with a letter from their teacher with the projects they missed.  SO CUTE!!!!

I got this cute text from the primary music leader about Scarlett:

The girls let me straighten their hair before church...

I used this object lesson about Choices.  I used a new diaper, I put water in it so it looked like a used diaper and I told them that it was Skye's.  I put the money in an envelope then inside a plastic bag to keep it dry.  In the envelope I put the $50 along with a $5.  Then if they picked the money I could pull out the $5 to give them, but if they didn't I would pull out the $50.  It went like this:

I had a girl leave the room.  Set up Display: Choice A (treat) Choice B (diaper).  Make half the girls tell her to choose A and half to choose B.  Cover up the options.  Bring the girl back in.  Have the class try and persuade her to pick one.  Confusing!  Tell her she can "pray" for help.  Hand her a set of scriptures, inside there was a note that said "choose B".  Ask her to pick one.  She picked B.  I uncovered the diaper.  Everyone was confused.  I chuckled and said that wasn't fair.  So I uncovered them both and said "now you can see both choices you can pick again."  She picked A, the fruit-by-the-foot.  We passed out the treats and she sat back down.  Then we chatted about the experiement.  We need to trust the Lord and even though we don't always understand why we're asked to make certain choices, Heavenly Father can see the big picture and knows which choice in the long run will bring us happiness.  Then I unwrapped the diaper and pulled out the $50.  The look on their faces was awesome!  It worked perfect!!!  It really illustrated the point that sometimes the Lord knows what's best for us even when we don't understand.

I used a this object lesson to make a puzzle for repentance.