Here we are, at our Annual Young Women's sleepover! Every year we have an awesome time, and this year we're going to have an even more awesome time because we have more girls to join in the fun! :)
In case you're wondering, we FINALLY got a group picture! If you didn't already know, we've been wanting a group picture for a long time, but there always seems to be some reason that one of the girls isn't there when the rest of us are... Or we forget to get a group picture! But we finally got a group picture tonight! Please, feast your eyes:
*insert picture here*
While some of us are playing Just Dance, we are passing the laptop around, and answering some of these questions about our New Year's resolutions. We hope to inspire you through our answers!
What is a bad habit that you want to break in 2012?
Keep my room more clean...
I want to get to bed earlier...
Stop being SASSY!
I want to stop procrastinating...
I want to try to be a better teenager and pet owner. by Kitty Softpaws
What are some of your educational goals for 2012?
I want to attend Seminary more...
Well... I really want to attend BYU one day! So I plan to be more prepared to apply when Fall rolls 'round! Bringing up my Community Service hour count, and just building up my student profile so that I will have a better chance of getting into the schools of my choice. :)
Get a better idea of what career I want to have after high school.
Honour role, baby! :)
I want to get above 75% in all of my courses.
Get above 80% in all my courses, figure out what exactly I want to study and where.
To study more. by Kitty Softpaws
What are some your Personal Progress goals for 2012?
I would like to finish the KNOWLEDGE value this year!!!
I want to complete one value this year! :)
Finish all my Personal Progress requirements.
To complete the Faith value. by Kitty Softpaws
What are some of your Spiritual goals for 2012?
Study and read the scritures every night, and learn how to apply what I learn in my life.
Read my scriptures every single day! :) & don't just read them... STUDY them!
Read scriptures everyday, have personal prayers morning and night, be worthy of the Sprirt and recognize it in my life.
Finish my Book of Mormon. by Kitty Softpaws
What are some of your goals that you have set for 2012 with regards to your present and future families?
To continue to prepare to be married in the Temple to my future husband!
I want to continue to prepare to be married in the Temple someday in the future! :)
Prepare to be married in the temple, learn more homemaking skills (cooking).
Learn to sew. by Kitty Softpaws
What are some of your goals for Seminary this year?
To achive a Silver this year.
To achive a Silver in the Seminary program! :)
I'm going for the All-Canadian award!
Graduate!
Practice
What are some of your health goals for 2012?
Get my medications under control!
Exercise! Exercise, exercise, exercise.
Get at least a half hour of some kind of exercise everyday.
Get a work-out routine going, and work on my cardio. My heart is going to thank me, BIG TIME! I also want to be more aware of the foods that I'm putting into my body, and eat healthier.
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Sunday, 1 January 2012
New Year's Resolutions!
Wow... It has been a while since we last posted on our blog! With the new year, we plan to be more diligent in our blog-writing. It's a very exciting project! :)
There have been some changes to our little Branch in Woodstock, Ontario! We now have six active young women in our Branch (4 Laurels, 1 Miamaid, 1 Beehive)! It has been an exciting year for us all as we have experienced the joy of watching our little Branch grow! It has definitely been amazing for me, as one of my great friends, Meghan, was baptized this year, and now joins us on Sundays to worship with us, and frequently attends Branch and Stake activities... It's so nice to have her there with me. Welcome to the family, Meghan!! :)
This morning we all woke up to a brand new year! And we all know what goes hand-in-hand with a brand new year: New Year's resolutions! Sister Dussault taught our lesson in Young Women's class today, and, of course, we learned about setting goals. This morning we talked about setting short-term goals to meet our long-term ones.
After an opening prayer and a lesson on goals, we ripped open the box of New Era, Friend, and Ensign magazines (which I love, love, love), and ... CUT OUT PICTURES FROM THEM?! Okay, to be honest, this was kind of hard for me to do at first: I didn't know if I wanted to cut pictures out of my favourite magazines that I love reading!! However, after a moment or two, and a little chat about how the magazines' material is available on the Internet any ways, we popped out the scissors, and got cutting.
"And what were they cutting, exactly?" you might be asking yourselves. WELL, let me tell you! Sister Krista shared this wonderful idea with us (which she apparently does every year - and I think that's amazing). Every year, she makes a collage of pictures which represent (or remind her of) the goals and resolutions that she set for the coming year! Neat idea, huh??
So the plan was for us to go through these magazines (which contain spiritually uplifting media - perfect for this activity!), and find images and words which represented the goals and resolutions that we had set for this coming year. This was really good for me, actually: I've been trying to set some goals for this coming year, but I wanted to set goals that would help me in the "big picture" - the "grand scheme," or, in other words, goals that will aid me eternally.
While I'm here, and we're talking about goals... I want to share this! I love our Stake President, he's an amazing man, and he loves the youth! This year, at our New Year's Eve Eve (yes, that's two "Eve"s) dance, he spoke to the youth about setting goals which, as I was just saying, would help them eternally. He taught the youth an important method for setting goals. It goes something like this:
1.) Firstly, think of the top five life goals that you have. (This could include getting married in the Temple, serving a mission, going to University, etc.) Write them down on a piece of paper.
2.) Next, write down five smaller goals that you can achieve or work on in the next year which will help you to meet those life time goals. (For example, if one of your life time goals is to serve a mission, one of your smaller goals might be to establish a habit of daily prayer, or scripture study - or both!)
3.) Now, this part is important. Imagine that you only have 6 months left to live. (He explained that this sometimes becomes the case for some people - cancer patients, for example, are sometimes told that they only have a short amount of time left to live.) What sort of things would you want to do in your last six months of living, if you knew you were going to die at the end of those six months? When he said this, I had to take a step back and think about what sorts of things matter enough to me for me to fit them into that six month period. President McBride explained that we don't know when our time is going to be up: we may have six months left to live, decades, or just days. WE. DON'T. KNOW. Looking at this side of things, you may want to change some of your other goals around. Think about what matters most.
Well, we wish you all the best in your New Year's resolutions and goal-making! :) Always remember, no matter how bad you mess up while trying to achieve your goals and keep your resolutions, never. give. up. Always keep going. You're worth it! :)
Happy New Year's! :)
-Kathleen Smith, Woodstock Branch YW's
There have been some changes to our little Branch in Woodstock, Ontario! We now have six active young women in our Branch (4 Laurels, 1 Miamaid, 1 Beehive)! It has been an exciting year for us all as we have experienced the joy of watching our little Branch grow! It has definitely been amazing for me, as one of my great friends, Meghan, was baptized this year, and now joins us on Sundays to worship with us, and frequently attends Branch and Stake activities... It's so nice to have her there with me. Welcome to the family, Meghan!! :)
This morning we all woke up to a brand new year! And we all know what goes hand-in-hand with a brand new year: New Year's resolutions! Sister Dussault taught our lesson in Young Women's class today, and, of course, we learned about setting goals. This morning we talked about setting short-term goals to meet our long-term ones.
After an opening prayer and a lesson on goals, we ripped open the box of New Era, Friend, and Ensign magazines (which I love, love, love), and ... CUT OUT PICTURES FROM THEM?! Okay, to be honest, this was kind of hard for me to do at first: I didn't know if I wanted to cut pictures out of my favourite magazines that I love reading!! However, after a moment or two, and a little chat about how the magazines' material is available on the Internet any ways, we popped out the scissors, and got cutting.
"And what were they cutting, exactly?" you might be asking yourselves. WELL, let me tell you! Sister Krista shared this wonderful idea with us (which she apparently does every year - and I think that's amazing). Every year, she makes a collage of pictures which represent (or remind her of) the goals and resolutions that she set for the coming year! Neat idea, huh??
So the plan was for us to go through these magazines (which contain spiritually uplifting media - perfect for this activity!), and find images and words which represented the goals and resolutions that we had set for this coming year. This was really good for me, actually: I've been trying to set some goals for this coming year, but I wanted to set goals that would help me in the "big picture" - the "grand scheme," or, in other words, goals that will aid me eternally.
While I'm here, and we're talking about goals... I want to share this! I love our Stake President, he's an amazing man, and he loves the youth! This year, at our New Year's Eve Eve (yes, that's two "Eve"s) dance, he spoke to the youth about setting goals which, as I was just saying, would help them eternally. He taught the youth an important method for setting goals. It goes something like this:
1.) Firstly, think of the top five life goals that you have. (This could include getting married in the Temple, serving a mission, going to University, etc.) Write them down on a piece of paper.
2.) Next, write down five smaller goals that you can achieve or work on in the next year which will help you to meet those life time goals. (For example, if one of your life time goals is to serve a mission, one of your smaller goals might be to establish a habit of daily prayer, or scripture study - or both!)
3.) Now, this part is important. Imagine that you only have 6 months left to live. (He explained that this sometimes becomes the case for some people - cancer patients, for example, are sometimes told that they only have a short amount of time left to live.) What sort of things would you want to do in your last six months of living, if you knew you were going to die at the end of those six months? When he said this, I had to take a step back and think about what sorts of things matter enough to me for me to fit them into that six month period. President McBride explained that we don't know when our time is going to be up: we may have six months left to live, decades, or just days. WE. DON'T. KNOW. Looking at this side of things, you may want to change some of your other goals around. Think about what matters most.
Well, we wish you all the best in your New Year's resolutions and goal-making! :) Always remember, no matter how bad you mess up while trying to achieve your goals and keep your resolutions, never. give. up. Always keep going. You're worth it! :)
Happy New Year's! :)
-Kathleen Smith, Woodstock Branch YW's
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