New Year's Celebration!

In the beginning of November we had the unique opportunity to participate in a New Years Celebration recording. The church is producing this DVD and will be sending out the finished product to wards all over the world in December.

The event was held at the conference center. On drive up, we took a moment to OOO and AAH at Sister Upp's collection of car freshners!

Coming out of the church office building parking lot...we had some fun in the elevator. :)

When we got there, the place was packed!! We felt like cattle being herded around. We were lucky enough to get in and be amongst the last ones to get a seat on the highest balcony before they shut the doors. Our YM were not as fortunate! They were turned away and had to go home! Sorry boys!

It was amazing to sit in there amongst 20,000 LDS youth! The front area (where the general authorities and MoTab choir usually sit for conference) was transformed into a special stage just for this event. Over 500 youth auditioned and practiced for this program. At one point I turned to Sister Upp and said "This is like a gospel version of High School Musical!" The whole evening was jam-packed with high energy fun, complete with singing, dancing, and audience participation. It was definitely a new experience to be cheering and clapping and yelling in the conference center!

Here's all of us who could go. Thanks for being patient in the freezing cold so we could snap this picture! If anyone else has pics, please post them. Overall it was a fun, exciting night. We love our girls and love spending time with them! :)

It is always a Party!

Here are a few of the pictures we took from Wednesday Nights Picture night. They weren't from a professional camera,

but they still turned out cute!!

We had a great time! Devan was such a sport, she even posed for a few pictures!
Jordan let Becca do her make-up, Check her out!


Rita was checking out how to do photoshop and digital scrapbooking pages!

Cute Devan!

Her is Sister Syall being patient with all of our MANY camera questions!

There is our fearless Leader Sister Jones!

Jordan looks a little leary.
Rita with an AWESOME hair-do!

Sister Rex lookin cute as Ever!

A closeup of sister Hill-

Dang she is cute! What a great smile!



And Sister Upp really trying to keep her

eyes up and open!!

This one is for you Marc!

Getting pictures from the blog.

You can save any of the images onto your desktop if you click on the slide show and then click on the picture you want. Then on a mac you control click save image to a desktop. I am not sure how you do it for a PC sorry.

YW combined activity for Nov.

The photography night was so fun!! What gorgeous girls. As you can see some of the leaders were showing them how it is done. There seems to be so many of the same picture because I did the glamour to some of them but, it does not show up in the slide show. So I will try to get some printed off so the girls can see the difference. Thanks for everyones help. We tried to learn a little bit about how the camera works so we can get better pictures. Then, there was a place set up to work on digital scrapbooking that will probably take another activity to really have a chance to learn that. Also Rebecca my(Sis Syal) sister had make-up and books ready for anyone who wanted to look at make-up stuff and then we got to pose our little hearts out. Everyone was such great sports. What a fun bunch of girls. We sure missed those that were gone. But, they are not off the hook. I will get them sometime. ;-)

Combined YW photography night

The girls pulled it off! YW in Excellence was a hit. The room was so cute in all of its jungle glory. It was so fun to have everyone come and be a part of these amazing girls. Chauncey way to go on getting your medallion!!!

YW in excellence

Sub for santa

Our Young women and young men get the chance to give this cute family a christmas this year. This family is in need of so much! We will be collecting donations from ward members and then wrapping them on December 3rd. We then get the opportunity to all deliver these gifts straight to the family closer to Christmas time. It will be such a neat experience! Remember girls, try and earn some money to be able to purchase something for the family, even if it's small, it will make all the difference in the world for this family!

Personal Progress Low-Down

Here's an explanation of what we're doing for Personal Progress...

1. Please start bringing your personal progress book to the last mutual of every month. For the first 15 minutes of this mutual we'll spend some time with each of you going over your progress. This also includes you special few who have already achieved your recognition award because you still have the chance to earn the incentives!

2. $$ Personal Progress Bucks $$ -

• The $1 bills are our way of letting you know that we really appreciate the little things you do! You will be awarded these when we notice your random acts of kindness and goodness. (Examples: being on time to class, setting a good example, giving a kind compliment, being positive in a difficult situation, showing compassion, etc.)
• The $5 bills are awarded every time you accomplish a value experience.
• The $10 bills are awarded every time you accomplish a value project, although we may bump that up to $20.... ;)

3. Personal Progress AUCTION! ...going once...going twice...sold! Every 3 months we're going to have an auction for you to spend your personal progress bucks, so work hard and keep that money safe!

4. Personal Progress Party - We will start holding these once every 4 months. At these parties you'll get the extra special treatment you deserve for all your hard work (like good food, hand massages or facials, a movie, etc.)! You must set goals with your parents/leaders and then complete them before the date of the party. When setting your goals, remember you must complete a minimum of 1 experience per month or 5 hours total of a value project in order to qualify for the party.

We hope that you'll be able to view Personal Progress, not as a chore, but as a great opportunity for fun, learning, and growth. We challenge you to set goals and accomplish them and see for yourselves the blessings that come from being a part of this program. And don't forget, we've got a lot fun incentives to reward you all along the way! Love, Your YW Leaders :)

Personal Progress Par-tay

We asked the girls to set some personal progress goals that were to be completed within a two month span. Whoever completed their goals on time got awarded with a special pampering party. We held our first personal progress party in August and Reta, Chanel, and Sara were all able to make it! After a nice ladies lunch we headed downstairs where Sister Rex showed the leaders how to give the girls full-on facials. We used homemade remedies: avacado scrubs and honey masks. While the leaders gave facials the girls got to relax, enjoy treats, and watch Ratatouille on the big screen. We love pampering our girls!!



Our next Personal Progress Party will be on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6th at 9am, We're going to make you breakfast and give hand massages/manicures, so set those goals and get them done so you can qualify for the party!

I Love to See the Temple

We had the chance to do temple baptisms in September at the Mount Timpanogos Temple. It was such a wonderful trip. This was my first time attending as a leader and it was a great experience to watch our beautiful girls participate in such an amazing work. Afterwards we enjoyed mingling outside the temple while snacking on lemon cookies and juice. We hope to return again in November so let's all get those temple names ready!
Love, Sister Jones

(P.S. Thanks to Brother Syal for playing photographer!)

Mall Madness!

Back in June, the MiaMaids planned an awesome photo scavanger hunt for the Young Men and Young Women. We had a great time hustling around the mall asking random people to take pictures with us! If you have more photos from this mutual, please post them! -Sister Jones

...And here's a pic of Brother Russell and Brother Bertolla slacking on the job... ;) haha!