Young Women Trivia Game

At the Champaign Ward "New Beginnings" we played an active trivia game that was a big hit, so I wanted to share the idea with the other units!  The game could be played at any activity with the girls, however we found it especially fun to have mothers involved.

At one end of the gym I spread out 50 word strips and at the other end of the gym we had the girls grouped as a team, mothers and female leaders as a team, and members of the bishopric as another team.  The word strips were facing the teams, but were too far away to be read.  I held a bowl with 20 trivia questions next to the teams.  Each team sent one person forward to grab a question at the same time, so each team was always working on just one unique question.  The team member had to run down to the word strips and locate the correct answer, then bring it back to me to check.  There were 30 more answers than there were questions so I made up a few value colors, people, years, etc. to make it difficult.  If the answer was wrong the next person on the team took the same question down and tried to find the right answer.   If the answer was right the next person on the team picked a new question and ran down to find the answer.  We had one leader assigned as a "runner" to return all of the incorrect answers to the other end of the gym to be available to pick for other questions.  It was a great game to get everyone moving, testing their knowledge, and competing to show whether current or past YW know their stuff!  (And just for the curious, the mothers and leaders won!)

If you would like the questions we used or any clarifications, e-mail me at amymknowlton@gmail.com.

What do you think?

I just received an email from a good friend of the family (trickled down through the grapevine...) indicating that the General Young Women's Presidency is looking for responses to the following promt:

“What I hope my daughters/granddaughters will know after six years in Young Women.”

What do you think?  If Sister Dalton was to ask you this question herself, how would you respond?  

Temple Bound!

As I'm sure you are well aware, the Stake Scripture for the year of 2012 is:

 "Let us be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people.  Let us hasten to the temple as frequently as time and means and personal circumstances allow...The temple is a place of beauty, it is a place of revelation, it is a place of peace.  It is the house of the Lord.  It is holy unto the Lord.  It should be holy unto us."  (President Hunter Ensign Oct. 1994)

How exciting that we get to spend so much time focusing on the temple this year, especially as it relates to Young Women!  I'm sure we all feel like we will have done our duty if we can only get our Young Women to go to the temple someday.  This new topic correlates perfectly with our Stake Theme from last year, the Family Proclamation, as they both help us realize our eternal destiny in the Plan of Salvation as daughters of God.  

I got to see the temple's direct influence on my little sister just a few weeks ago.  She has always been a valiant spirit, but the empowering influence of the temple became clear to me as I saw her come out of the temple for the very first time.  I know that no one else who reads this blog knows her, but I think you can tell from the pictures the kind of impact the house of the Lord had on her.  

Isn't she simply radiant??  She is now in the MTC preparing to serve in the Salt Lake City, Temple Square mission.   It has been wonderful to see her go from a Young Woman to a missionary of God.

The girls in our stake are just as wonderful, and YOU are helping them become radiant women of God themselves!  Keep it up :) .