I missed last week so you will be getting a double dose of me this week.
I work with the young women in my ward and we have a “New Beginnings” every year where the parents are invited and we basically introduce the new year and talk about personal progress. Any time the parents are invited it kind of stresses me out because I don’t want them to think it was a waste of time (like I think many meetings are). But I think this one turned out really well. The Olympics was our theme and we talked about how athletes work hard and some over came a lot to get their gold, then we tied it into them by asking them what they needed to do to obtain their “Gold Metal” in life. (so image that described more in-depth for about an hour).
So the next Sunday I asked the girls if they had changed anything in their life that might be hard for them so they could work toward their goals. One girl raised her hand. Let me give you a little background on this girl, she has had a rough life and has no parents living so her grandmother raised her until she decided she couldn’t handle her anymore, now she is in foster care with 4 other girls that are in our young women’s. So she said that she had decided with her foster mom that she would no longer hang out with some friends from her old school “because they were not good kids”.
It is comments like that, that make all the time and effort I spend on these girls worth it.
I work with the young women in my ward and we have a “New Beginnings” every year where the parents are invited and we basically introduce the new year and talk about personal progress. Any time the parents are invited it kind of stresses me out because I don’t want them to think it was a waste of time (like I think many meetings are). But I think this one turned out really well. The Olympics was our theme and we talked about how athletes work hard and some over came a lot to get their gold, then we tied it into them by asking them what they needed to do to obtain their “Gold Metal” in life. (so image that described more in-depth for about an hour).
So the next Sunday I asked the girls if they had changed anything in their life that might be hard for them so they could work toward their goals. One girl raised her hand. Let me give you a little background on this girl, she has had a rough life and has no parents living so her grandmother raised her until she decided she couldn’t handle her anymore, now she is in foster care with 4 other girls that are in our young women’s. So she said that she had decided with her foster mom that she would no longer hang out with some friends from her old school “because they were not good kids”.
It is comments like that, that make all the time and effort I spend on these girls worth it.
Okay if you can use your imagination you can see that these are the Olympic Rings
These are some of my cute Young Women in front of the value flags
1 comment:
That is such a cute idea. I love the donuts. You are involved in such an important calling, and that girl is probably going to remember you forever.... Maybe someday she'll look you up on FB like I do my leaders.
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