My friend who is YW President in her ward gave me a copy of the talks that her Young Women are using for New Beginnings this year.
This New Beginnings program has six short talks that describe espisodes in the lives of several women from Church History. Each talk is assigned a Personal Progress value (Divine Nature and Knowledge are combined) and each speaker ends the talk by saying something like this: “Like Lucy Mack Smith, I can develop the value of Faith by …” and shares their own thoughts and testimony.
Women featured in the talks are as follows:
* Lucy Mack Smith – Faith
* Eliza R Snow – Knowledge/Divine Nature
* Aurelia Spencer Rogers – Individual Worth
* Mary Ann Weston Maughan – Choice and Accountablility
* The Women of Nauvoo – Good Works
* Mary Fielding Smith – Integrity
I think these talks could be used for a Standards Night or Personal Progress activity, too.
This YW organization sang Hymn 309 As Sisters in Zion as an opening song, and Hymn 96 Dearest Children, God is Near You to close. They also invited Young Women to perform a musical interlude called The Woman You’ll Be Someday by Janice Kapp Perry.
