YW BASKETBALL IS STARTING!

Anyone who is interested in Basketball, start warming up, because beginning the first week of January, we'll be having games on Thursday nights at the stake center! It's going to be lots of fun and good exercise too!

Giving Service at the Utah Food Bank!

Thanks to Sister Compton's persistent efforts, we were able to get an appointment to serve at the food bank the first week of December. We had a great experience and all the yw worked so hard and were so happy and helpful! It was a learning experience to see all the food that is donated to those who are in need. We were definitely humbled by this opportunity to serve, and I hope the YW recognize their blessings more, like I know I do now.

Young Women in Excellence!

Lexi and Kayana
Jenessa and Ashley

Melanie and Erika

Maika and Monica

Katie got her own table!

Nicole and Jessica

Our YW in Excellence program turned out so nicely! The tables looked beautiful and I could tell all the YW worked so hard all year long! The YW in our ward are amazing and each one adds so much to our group. I love how they all get along and are sweet and kind to each other. They are always texting each other and making sure everyone is doing o.k. They are definitely excellent young women!

Random pics of goofy girls

High School Musical jump

Almost the whole YW group. Katie ditched us for a while :)

YM/YW Halloween Party!

Monica bobbing for apples

Jenessa bobbing for apples

Nicole bobbing

Alex got one

Cordell got one too

The YM/YW had a fun activity last week at Sister Smith's house. They tried to play a group game called "Dip," and one called "This is a fork." It was a little hard for the YM to catch on to that. They did much better with the Dance Dance Revolution game. We also bobbed for apples, but not everyone took the chance to dip their entire head into the water, get water in their nose, and hopefully pull out an apple. There was homemade rootbeer, rice crispy treats, pudding and worms :) and sucker ghosts to keep everyone full.

Welcome the New YW!

It sounds kind of crazy, but the population in our ward's YW almost doubled on Sunday! five new girls have moved into our neighborhoods and we are so excited. Sooo... we'd like to welcome our newcomers!

Melanie (16 yrs) and Jessica (12 yrs) Hair

Alexis (15), Erica (14), and Ashley (12) Crow

Humanitarian service

We're making baby blankets for the humanitarian service project that the stake is doing. The girls have done awesome and we have about 15 blankies! They even bought some of the material with their hard-earned money! Katie is concentrating hard, but she is quite a good seamstress.

Sister Anderton did a little sewing too!




Here are some of the finished blankets.

YW Volleyball

The stake is putting together a yw volleyball league! They will be starting Sept. 11 and going through Oct. 30. Games are on Thursday nights at the stake center at 6 PM. Let Sister Smith know if you want to play on the team, because we're combining teams with another ward so we have enough girls.

Swim activity

Monica is trying not to get too wet!
Jenessa, Kayana, Monica, Maika, Nicole
the slide train... did it work?
Kayana trying a new trick

We had a fun activity at Sister Smith's aunt's house in Highland. She was kind enough to let us use her pool for an hour and the girls had a blast. The weather was warm, and the pool was refreshing. We always miss our YW who can't make it to our activities because of family time, and we really wish everyone could be with us at each activity.

Camp Pictures

Bishop Norman brought his hot chi chi's for dinner!
We all enjoyed his dinner!
Getting ready to learn a game
We were all here!

Hi Monica!

Kayana Morgan gives us the thumbs up for the lake!

Sister Day, Sister Smith, and Sister Thayne, resting on the hike
Lexi Day doing a great job on her folders!
Maika is so cool!
This was the beautiful forest we hiked through!
Nicole Smith, Sister Dieterle, and Forest Robey

Awesome look, Katie!
Nicole on the zip line...wheeee!
One of the challenges on the course
Jenessa and Nicole in the cabin

yum,yum! The girls were well fed!