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Personal Progress Pajama Party
with Scripture Stickers
Midweek Activity

WHAT DO WE WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN:

Reinforce the Personal Progress Program through scripture sticker reminders. This will be held at a young women leaders home. You may have it be an all-night-sleep-over or just an evening.

Preparation and Supplies Needed:

  1. "Personal Progress Scripture Stickers" from DebaNae's for each Y.W. and leader. They will also need a copy of the instructions for them to take home.
  2. Have someone prepared to teach the mini-lessons.
  3. Have the leaders ready to do their part when they separate.
  4. Prepare the chosen munchies.
  5. Prepare to play the chosen games.
  6. Have the girls wear their pajamas and bring their new personal progress book and scriptures.
  7. Make and distribute the invitation the Sunday before the activity.

Invitations:

Prepare an invitation for each young woman by blowing up a balloon (Purple would be good) (don't tie it ) and writing the invitation on the outside of it with a permanent sharpie pen. Release the air from the balloon. The young women will have to inflate their balloons to read the message. The message could read something like....." Personal Progress Pajama Party." This _____(date and time). Please PoP in.

PARTY

As the young women arrive begin by playing games that begin with P:

  • Pictionary
  • Ping Pong
  • PIG (in basketball)
  • take Polaroid Pictures

You can have a Picnic with **PePPeroni Pizza and other munchies:

  • PoPcorn
  • Pretzels
  • Pistachio Peanuts
  • PurPle PoPcicles
  • PurPle PoP
  • PumPkin Pie
  • PePPermint Patties

(*There are many more I'm sure you can come up with - these are only a few.)

MINI-LESSON:

  1. Begin this section of the evening by having a leader highlight "Welcome to Personal Progress" on page 1 of the Personal Progress book. It is wonderful. It would be wonderful to have all of the young women turn to it in their own books and follow along. You may have them take a paragraph and read or you may have chosen a few young women before hand to read a few parts. That would be very impressive.
  2. Play the song "Come, Hold Your Torches High" (words by Carolyn J. Rasmus, Music by Larry W. Bastian) I think you can get it at the distribution center but for sure at Deseret Book.
  3. Tell the story Brother, I Love You from the October ‘97 New Era
  4. Express your feelings to the young women.
  • Divide up into different groups depending on the size of your ward, or you can all stay together. Have one leader highlight Pages 2-4 "Standards for the Strength of Youth". (You may wish to purchase the scripture stickers for these also "Strength of Youth Stickers).
  • Have another leader introduce the changes to the Young Women Theme - page 5
  • Have a leader go over the overview with the changes in the program. Pages 7-10

    SCRIPTURE STICKER ACTIVITY:

    1. Pass out the Personal Progress Scripture Stickers. Have the young women decide which goal they will begin working on. Have them find the scripture in their own scriptures, read it, highlight it in the value color and place the value color sticker next to it. Do this to get them started and then give them a copy of the instructions for them to take home. Be sure to tell them to write their feelings in the margin to help remind them of the feelings they have. (Be sure they realize to put the right value flower sticker that corresponds with the value experience they are working on.)

    CONCLUSION:

    Finish by sharing your own feelings of the Personal Progress Program with them.

    Closing Prayer.

    REFRESHMENTS:

    It would be great to have a PePPeroni Pizza Party now.

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