We had our Night of Excellence
on the 7th. These are all our Young Women. There were two girls
missing but I think everyone else was there. We had about 25 YW in the
5th ward and only 17 in the 17th ward. The girls helped to make the
decorations for one of their YW nights and also
brought items to display. All of the girls sang "Peace in Christ," which
they sung at Girls' camp last year. They also sung it in church a
couple of weeks ago and were asked to sing it at the Missionary Fireside
coming up next month.
Night of Excellence
turned out really nice. I had taken pictures of all of the girls on
Sundays and had them printed and put them in little frames for the
event. The Young Women's organization has a lot of big activities, but
they also have a lot of leaders, which really helps to spread the
responsibilities around. I love serving with the girls and leaders. It
is a busy but fun calling.
Janelle earned her Young Womanhood Award this
year back in February along with Sophie Smith and so those two were
asked to speak. Janelle talked about one of her final projects, which was making a personal history book. I have made a Blurb book for a few of my kids of their
early years with tons of pictures and the annual histories they write
along with our annual family histories and funny anecdotes and stories.
Janelle's book covers her first five years and we thought it would be a
great final project for her to make another book that covered several
more years of her life. The ten hour project ended up being more like a
hundred+ hour project with the two of us working on it. It turned out
really nice and is a wonderful and precious history. Out of all of my
kids Janelle is the one who has enjoyed the history books I have made
the most and has read them often and pretty much has all of the funny
stories and anecdotes memorized.
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