Happy 18th Kristen and Welcome April!

Oh my goodness!!! Can you even believe it!!? KRISTEN TURNED 18 YEARS OLD!! AAAAAAA!!! Congrats on officially becoming OLD--just kidding! We hope that you had a wonderful birthday, Kristen!! We love you lots!!

We have a new girl that just moved into the 'hood and her name is April! WELCOME APRIL! We are all so very excited to have you come hang out with us!! April loves to sing--and I'll tell ya, she's got the talent! Maybe we'll have an American Idol straight from our 4th Ward Idol Performances. We are excited to have you with us!!

Girls! We love you all so much! Don't forget to leave us some feedback about activities!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

In case you haven't heard, there is now a monthly YW newsletter! We'll be posting it to the blog, but due to technical difficulties, this month's will be below in a not-so-cute format. Be looking for a new directory with birthdates, phone #s, blogs, etc.; the Sunday folder with lots of info including a place to track your PP; getting to know you sheets; someone who's day you can make better! Hope you have a FANTASTIC week and know how much we leaders love you girls!

MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENCY

Hey Cute Girls! You guys are so amazing! I love spending time with you lovely ladies. So let's get down to business...I hope you all have been working on your Personal Progress. I am working extra hard so that I can get my medallion and I want you all to get your medallions, too! I have been working on Virtue a lot lately and for the project you have to read the Book of Mormon. So that's what I have been doing and let me tell you the experience has been amazing! This is my second time reading this book and there are so many things inside it that are helpful and confronting. I'm currently in Mosiah 16. I read this scripture the other day: He is the light and life of the world; yea, a light that is endless that can never be darkened; yea and also life which is endless, that there can be no more death. (Mosiah 16:9). I challenge you young women to do everything you can to know this truth and work on your Personal Progress. Our Heavenly Father loves you so much and by doing these things you will be closer to him. Love y'all so much!! ~Shandy Neal

MESSAGE FROM YOUR LEADERS

There is a great new website fro the Youth of the Church that is linked to the LDS website. It is just your YOU!! The website address is www. youth.lds.org. There are so many great messages of encouragement and reminders to Be Strong and of Good Courage!! A message I watched on there was a message by our beloved prophet President Thomas S. Monson. He encourages all of us to not confuse What is important with what is NOT. In his message he states that those things that are most important in our lives usually involve people around us. Our neighbor next door who might need a kind note, that friend that you have neglected to show that you really care. I want to echo his message. Don't let those nearest and dearest to you ever question your love and concern for them. Give a child in your life a hug, give your parents a hug! Tell them you love them. Always express your appreciation to those who truly bless your lives. Say I love you more. His final statement simply said, "Never let a problem to be solved become more important thtn a person to be loved." I hope you always remember how much you are loved! Now go and show someone that they are love, too!! ~Jamie Lesko

CALENDAR ITEMS

March 3rd-YW Time Capsules

March 7th-Stake Conference 10:00am

March 9th-RS Birthday Dinner-all YW are invited

March 10th-Combined YW/YM-Rock Climbing

March 11th-Happy Birthday Kristen!!

March 13th-Eat a lot

March 14th-Fast Sunday

March 17th-Importance of Patriarchal Blessings

March 24th-Progressive Dinner

March 27th-YW Broadcast 6:00pm

March 31st-Draper Temple Baptisms 6:30pm

SOCCER CHAMPS!!

Congratulations 4th Ward girls! You are the soccer champions.....for now!! BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now you must take on the leaders in an epic battle of shin-bashing, and head-butting! All parents, families, and leaders are invited to watch as our Young Women take on the Young Women leaders of the stake PLUS Miguel Nunez as our team goalie and coach!!

Thursday Feb. 25th @ 5:45 PM
Stake Center Gym

Come out and watch--you won't be disappointed that you did!!!

Good Luck!

Huge Success

I just wanted to tell you all what an amazing job you did tonight! Your messages were inspirational. What phenomenal young women we have in the River 4th Ward. I am grateful for your influence in my life as well as in the lives of my family members. You truly are the leaders of the future, actually, you are the leaders of today! You are all gold winners in my eyes! Keep up the great work!

Love and miss you all....
Karey

New Year!!

The New Year is just around the corner! Can you believe it?! Shandy gave an awesome talk on setting goals and the purposes the Personal Progress Program. I know that I am going to be better about working on my Personal Progress--especially after hearing about the new medallions!!! SWEET!! They are beautiful! I look forward to making this goal with you girls. I know that it will be a goal that will bless all of our lives.

We have already seen that the New Year has brought us some early changes. We will miss Karey immensely but know that she will be awesome in her new callings. We love you, Karey and hope that you check in on us still! With Karey's release we got to bring on some other amazing and fun leaders. Aubrey Gagon, Charity Horne, and Brei Bunker will now be joining us in Young Women! They are so AWESOME and we look forward to having them!

Thanks for being the incredible young women that you are. It is truly a blessing in my life to be able to learn and grow from your strength and testimonies. We love you all so much!! We hope that you all have a safe and Happy New Year!

Love, Your Leaders

PS Don't forget that Sunday our meeting time is 11 am!! YIPPPEEEEEE!! See you on SUNDAY!!

Temple Fun

I just have to share with you one of my favorite parts about our outing at the temple. All of us except Kristen, who was downstairs talking to "someone", were upstairs looking at the statue of Christ in the visitor center. Kristen called to find out where we were and Shandy said, "We are upstairs with Jesus!" Her commented busted me up at the time, but the more I've thought about it, the more I think that's exactly were we all should want to be, "upstairs with Jesus!" I hope that all of you set that as a goal for this upcoming year, to live your life so that you are worthy to be "UPSTAIRS WITH JESUS!"

Love to you all and thanks for spending such an amazing, freezing night with me. I think you are all AMAZING! Love ya! Karey

Chelsea's Challenge!!

Chelsea has challenged all of us to keep a record of our lives every day for 365 days!!! WOW!! That's going to be tough but think about how fun it will be to see what you have done/experienced/learned for an entire year! How neat is that!? I am so bringing on this challenge and I challenge all of you to do it too!! I double-dog-dare ya!!! ;)

Here is her challenge:

"Therefore I make a Record of my proceedings in my days" (1 Nephi 1:1)

Make a record of you! Blog about yourself everyday for 365 days straight!

We came up with a few ideas of things that you could talk about on your blog if you start running out of things. Here are a few of the ideas that we came up with:

-favorite recipe
-thought/quote of the day
-highlight of your day
-How the Lord has blessed you each day--challenge by President Eyring
-picture from your day
-something you learned that day
-"Confession Friday"--I love this one!! How fun!!

Anyway, bring on the challenge and let's see what you learn about yourself and others! Be sure to let us know where your blog is so we can follow yours too!!