Sewing Skills--Feb 17th

This week we will be learning some sewing skills. Sister Pearce will be teaching us how to make pillow cases from two fabrics as well as mini decorative pillows.

We're meeting at the Pearce residence, 4814 60th St, at 7pm on Thursday. If you have a sewing machine you wouldn't mind us borrowing, please bring it and meet us there a few minutes early. Please call us if you need a ride!

Personal Progress Special :)

We had an interesting-looking group of young women at the church for our personal progress special. Thanks so much for being so supportive of this! We, as leaders, were so impressed with how seriously they took the instructions to wear anything and everything they had that started with the letter 'p', to help us think about Personal Progress. As an example: Polka dots, Plaid, Purple, Pink, Pillbox hat, Peacoat, Pigtails, Ponytail, Purse, Pearls, and the list goes on and on. The girls were so creative as to how they put it all together. The girl with the most 'p''s on won a gift card to Sonic and the runner up and most creative got some luxurious lotions. Taylor Webster won with over 40 p's, Amy Aldana was the runner up, and Winter McGinty won most creative. Here's a picture of our group:

That night was the start of a new adventure. We, as leaders, flew all of the girls out for a vacation to Maine! But we forgot something... OOPS... the return flight! The girls must now earn miles and money to get to where we can have some fun in the sun: Hawaii! If all of the girls make it by June, completing two entire values*, we get a pool party!

How it works:

The young women will be divided into teams. Each team must earn points by doing their Personal Progress. Those points can either be cashed in for money or for miles. Money will be used for things like buying a vehicle, gas, food, and plane or ferry tickets. The miles will be used to move their vehicle of choice across the country on the way to Hawaii.

Points System:

 Each day it takes to complete a value experience is worth 100 points.

All completed value projects are worth 10,000 points!

For example:

If I complete a value experience that took me one day, I will earn 100 points.

If I complete a value experience that took me two weeks, I will earn 1400 points.

If I complete a value project, I will earn 10,000 points!

The young women will also receive the points for the value experience and projects that their mothers/mentors/friends complete!!

There will be several motivating prizes offered to:

-The team that reaches Hawaii first.

-The team that gets the most points.

-The individual girl who gets the most points.

*Completing two entire values will guarantee a young woman a ticket straight to Hawaii, regardless of where her team is when the game is ended. However, she must still earn points to help her team cross the country.

Valentine Activity--Feb 10th

This week's activity will be a fun one! Since Valentine's Day is coming up, we thought we'd do some service. We will be making Valentine cards and decorating cupcakes to deliver to the wives of the bishop and his counselors. SHHHH- its a surprise!! Dress warmly. :)

We're meeting at the church at 7pm, tomorrow, February 10th. Please be ready to pick up your girls at 8:30 back at the church, and please let us know if you need a ride!

Bowling Night--Feb 2nd--CANCELLED!!

This weeks activity will be on Wednesday, February 2nd,  instead of Thursday. We're meeting at 7pm at Whitewood Lanes on 50th and Memphis for bowling night! Be ready for a night full of spares, strikes, turkeys, and, at least for me, gutter balls!

Please let us know if you need a ride!

Personal Progress Special

Be there at 7:00pm on Thursday, January 27th, at the 58th St. building.

Wear as many P words as you can!

(Purple, Plaid, Pin-striped, Pink, Pearls, etc) 

And BRING YOUR PERSONAL PROGRESS BOOK!!

See you there :)

Christmas Toy Drive

Christmas time is such a wonderful time! Its time for love, cheer, and, most importantly, giving. The young women decided to do a toy drive this year to help kids less fortunate. It was quite the project! We first, collected toys. They were collected in boxes at the church or collected from homes. Then the fun beings: We cleaned them all! Then separated them out into different catagories: books, dolls, dress-up, cars, stuffed animals, etc. Then, everything was bagged and taken to several different organizations over Christmas break.

Here are a bunch of pictures from the activity where all of the organization took place.

During that fiasco, we found some time to do some service for the missionaries as well. Its nice for them to have visual aides as they teach about the Plan of Salvation. So, we helped color some of those visual aides!

Thanks to all who donated toys to this cause. We know your sacrifice has brought a smile to the face of a child here in Lubbock and you will most definitely be blessed for this effort!

Makeup night

Once in a while, a girl just really needs to feel fresh, rejuvenated, relaxed and beautiful. If that's accomplished, then we feel ready to conquer the world! But, with the spunky young women we have, it was hard to do this without having a little bit of fun too.

We started with all-natural masks made from avacado, cucumber, and plain yogurt, with cucumber slices to go on our eyes. Turns out, plain yogurt is really good for your face: degerming and all of that. But, not the sissy stuff. It was full fat yogurt. Avacado is really great for providing moisture (so if your complexion is dry, use that) and cucumber is just a good refresher.

 Application of said masks was... a little bit... interesting...

And then, we got to relax. Sort of.

The darn cucumbers kept falling off!

We invited Christi Brodrick to come and teach us a little bit about make-up. She helped us out with what colors go with which skin tones and how to apply for the look you want. Sister Iverson used to sell make-up, so she brought her supply to share with us. :)

And now, it's time to apply what we've learned about make-up!

Jessica and Charlotte came a little late due to a play rehearsal, so that's why they're still in the fabulous green masks. :)

Everyone left before we could get an "after" shot, but here are beautiful Brittany and McKenzie, all finished up.

Thank you so much, Sister Brodrick, for coming to help us out with our make-up night! We couldn't have done it without you! No, seriously, we couldn't have. Your talents have been shared to help us learn more about being beautiful.