General YW meeting

A few of the YW in our ward were able to attend the meeting at the Conference center on March 27. It was a wonderful meeting with messages from the YW General Presidency, Sister Dalton, Sister Dibbs, and Sister Cook. The highlight for most of the YW was hearing from President Dieter Uchtdorf about how to get your "happily ever after." For more about this meeting you can go to www.lds.org and go to the YW link.

Martin's Cove Trek

The Traverse Mountain Stake is preparing for their youth conference this summer in Wyoming! Our stake has been planning for 4 years to go on the Martin's cove trek and it's finally going to happen. We are so excited that the youth can all come (12 and up) and we are really looking forward to the amazing experience this will provide. There have already been a few firesides to help everyone get ready, and we will be having a few more activities to plan for it. The youth will also be hearing from their trek "ma and pa" in the next month or so. The ma's and pa's have been encouraged to get to know their new families before we leave so hopefully that will happen for everyone. In the meantime, the YW need to prepare their outfits for the trek. Above is a picture of the pioneer clothing that the boys and girls will be wearing. We will also be having an activity or 2 to sew bonnets or aprons, but please start looking at the DI or asking family members for their dresses. We will be posting a list of what you will be bringing soon too.


This is sure to be a great experience and we really encourage everyone to try their hardest to be a part of this!

Patriarchal Blessings

Today our lessons were on Patriarchal blessings and there is a personal progress experience that goes right along with the lesson. If you look in your book under Individual worth value experience 2, you will find the experience that goes along with this lesson. The following talks can be found on LDS.Org and you can also read more about Patriarchal blessings in the book True to the Faith . Here are the talks: "You have a Noble Birthright" by Julie B. Beck from the Ensign, May, 2006; "About Patriarchal Blessings" from the New Era, March 2004; "Be Thou an Example" by Thomas S. Monson, from the Ensign, May 2005.

When you have read all or some of these articles, show your mom or one of your leaders and you can get this experience signed off!