What are your experiences with opening exercises on Sunday. What works for your girls, what doesn't? As a presidency, we've been working on making our opening...
There's a story (?) about having the TV guide and the scriptures side by side on the table and which one has the most use. Does this sound familiar to...
Patricia Ellsworth
elcomom@...
Aug 1, 2002 4:40 pm
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We were having some problems with our girls in openeing exercises as well so we also made a few changes...I know you said you do not have anyone who can really...
Danylax21@...
Aug 1, 2002 5:33 pm
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Your opening exercises sound about like ours, and we are seeing improvement as well. We have found that so much of the reverence (or lack thereof) comes from...
lockesnest1@...
Aug 1, 2002 6:35 pm
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We had SOOO many girls gone this last week that I forwarded the journal on. (I had journal #2). It is headed to Slovenia so I hope the timing works okay. ...
I hope some of your girls at least got to participate. I'm sorry that you were not able to keep the journal longer. I hope everyone understands. Thanks Pam ...
Actually, we only had 2 girls at church on Sunday and 3 at mutual, so we didn't fill it out at all. I just left it blank and added our address to the list -...
richchipper@...
Aug 1, 2002 11:41 pm
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I made an "opening exercises" notebook. Each week a member of the Laurel Presidency takes the book home and before each sunday calls and reminds each person on...
For those of you that seem to have well organized opening exercises - how many girls are in your programs and are they dependable attenders? I've tried so...
We had this lesson last Sunday. Our teachers had the bishop come in at the beginning of class. He announced to the class that the stake was asking everyone...
You do seem to have some things that are conspiring against you. First I'd begin by going to the Lord and asking for his help to soften the hearts of those...
We have a similar scenario - smaller group. Our mutual consists of many girls from the same families so if they leave town, we are sunk. Some are from...
richchipper@...
Aug 2, 2002 2:21 pm
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We had the same problem, and chaotic opening exercises sometimes... What we did was have callings for the girls that came regularly. We called a chorister and...
Christy Wardle
wardle_art@...
Aug 2, 2002 2:45 pm
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I am a Stk. YW Leader in my stake and everytime when we go on our monthly visits to the wards, we try to introduce fun ideas to leaders to add to opening...
We have 6 girls with 5 there all the time but our meeting is first so our big problem is we have to start with half our class present-sometimes it is 1 girl...
I wrote a little skit today that I hope will encourage the girls to come in to Young Womens on time. They linger in the hall FOREVER with the boys and each...
I have decided to campaign for the next month or so, pretty hard, to get the girls to come in to our meeting on time. After we do the skit I have a handout...
Thank you all soo much for sharing your ideas on opening Exercises!! I am motivated, and feel like things will get better!! We actually have good OE, as far...
Dvanbaker@...
Aug 3, 2002 8:31 pm
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Hi, I just received a calling into YW and just found this site. I am planning a family history lesson for a mid week activity and was wondering if anyone had...
Tammy, I had to compile a whole bunch of Family History activities a year ago, and still have them on the site. Here is the link:...
Christy Wardle
wardle_art@...
Aug 5, 2002 5:03 am
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Maybe a bingo game, with words from family history on the bingo cards, and give a brief definition of each word as you read it the first time. Bingo cards are...
Dvanbaker@...
Aug 5, 2002 12:35 pm
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We had a skit for them, we found out things about their ancestors, I was sitting at a desk pretending to be one of the girls, chewing gum, listening to music,...
Abcsaunders1@...
Aug 5, 2002 2:39 pm
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Hi everyone Tuesay we did a really fun activity. It was called the clothes and lunch swap. We had all the young women bring all the clothes they did'nt like,...
Christy Wardle wrote: Tammy, I had to compile a whole bunch of Family History activities a year ago, and still have them on the site. Here is the link:...
Do any of you do a newsletter for your young women? If so, what are some catchy titles you have used? Also, what categories do you address in each issue?...
We are doing a back to school party/activity this Wednesday for mutual.....it's a combined YM/YW activity and it got thrown in my lap at the last minute on...
We usually focus on a value with a poem and spotlight one or more of the girls with a birthday that month - mostly favorites and hobbies. The newsletter goes...
richchipper@...
Aug 5, 2002 6:12 pm
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Thanks! More good ideas! I'm so glad people respond on this board!!!! Tammy Army wife, mother of 2 ... Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live...
... I'm sure this has been suggested before, so it isn't anything new, but how about 'Back to School' Relay Races or some other title. Assign an adult leader...
Oh these ideas are so great!!! Thank you so much!!! I knew someone would have some great ideas!!! Char ... From: cjohnson [mailto:cj@...] Sent: Monday,...
