August
5 Healthy Living
11 Manti Temple
19 (YW) Miniature Golf
26 Vision Board

Manti Temple trip

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 we headed down to Manti for a baptism trip. We only had 4 girls and 80 names so each girl was able to do 20. Kurt Albach once again accompanied us and helped with the temple work. Thank you so much for your support, Brother Albach!!! It was a beautiful day and the temple grounds were stunning! This was also Alicia's first baptism trip. A great experience!!! We're doing great, girls!

M*A*S*H

We had a cute MASH theme for youth conference this year. The youth woke up to revelry and did calesthenics. We had a FUN obstacle course that turned into a water battle (fight) and of course they had KP duty.
We were nestled in a little valley surrounded by magnificent cliffs and a little river going through camp. We had amazing youth and it was a great experience all around.
The last morning we did a 5:00 hike to the top of a pinnacle. There we had testimony meeting and watched the sun rise. Awesome!

Yum!!!
We got together at Sister Johnson's house where she taught us to make Southwestern egg rolls. We had fun snacking on chips and salsa, chatting, and helping out in the kitchen...and the egg rolls were WONDERFUL! (They must be healthy because they had spinach.)

The recipe:
Southwest Egg Rolls
4 chicken breasts or 1 rotisserie chicken
1-2 T. oil
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1 pkg baby spinach
1 c. frozen corn
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1-2 T. diced, canned jalapenos
1-2 T. chopped parsley
2 t. cumin
2 t. chili powder
1 t. salt
Dash cayenne pepper
2-3 c. shredded Mexican cheese
1 pkg uncooked flour tortillas

Cook and shred the chicken. Heat the oil in a pan ad saute the bell pepper, green onions and spinach. Add the corn, beans, jalapeno, parsley and spices. Stir and add the cheese and remove from heat. Use 1/2 cup (or more) filling per tortilla and roll up egg roll (or burrito ) style. Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes.

Avocado Ranch Sauce

1-2 avocados, smashed
1/2- 1 c. mayo (can use light)
1/2-1 c. sour cream (can use light)
1-4 T. buttermilk
1 T. vinegar
1/4 t. salt
1/4 t. dried parsley
1/4 t. onion powder
1/8 t. dried dill weed
1/8 t. garlic powder
1/8 t. black pepper

Mix all ingredients and serve with the egg rolls!

Quilt for Sophia
A few weeks ago we got together to make a quilt for Haley Molyneux's new baby, Sophia. Rachel and Madison picked the cute giraffe print and McKinlee,
Danielle, and Alicia helped to tie it. Cute!!!

July
8 - Quilt for Sophia
15- Southwest egg rolls
22- Stake pool party
30 - Aug 1 Youth Conference

June 30 to July 3 was spent at Camp MIA Shalom. The theme was Anchored in Christ and we were the ship O.A.S.I.S. It was quick this year, but every minute was busy. We had a chance to do waterfront, crafts, and games one day. We spent some time getting all the girls certified. Yeah!!! They all did! Good job girls.
As usual the stake presidency did a humorous skit (but we learned that NAVY stands for Neatly Anchored Valiant Youth) then President Olsen gave a brief talk.
Our Bishopric all came for dinner and testimony meeting on the last evening. We always love to see them...especially with key lime cheesecake!

June 24 Madison, Rachel and I went to the fabric store to buy material to make a quilt for Sophie Molyneux. We will post that soon! Then on the 27th we took Danielle and McKinlee shopping for camp food. It always amazes me how much we need for a week at camp!!! But, we are stocked up and ready!

June Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

We had a fun day trip to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It was a beautiful temple and fun to see all the detailing in the decorating. Poor Angel Moroni's arm was struck by lightening so if you notice, his arm is black.

Brother Albach was our Priesthood leader. After the open house we had lunch at Chick Fil-A. (including a yummy ice cream cone.) This is our fifth temple...well, not for baptisms, but it was a good spirit and we will look forward to doing baptisms there soon!

June 10 YM/YW BBQ

We went to Nielson's Grove park for a BBQ with the Young Men. Sister Siragusa made some yummy hamburgers and we had hot dogs too. Actually, it was quite chilly and threatened to rain, but we had a good time together. Alicia was able to come with her mom so that was fun to introduce her to Young Womens and get her involved. Soon she will be with us at camp and then be in our group every week! Good times ahead!

June 3 Anklets
We made some cute anklets...and some of us made a pair of earrings for each day of the week! Way to go! Congrats to Rachel for her pierced ears:)

June Calendar

3 Anklets
10 YM/YW BBQ
17 St. George Temple
24 Prepare for camp
1 - July 3 Girls' camp

May 27, 2009
Brother Albach (Grandpa Albach) taught the girls important things to know about car care. They practiced changing a tire and learned what fluids to check and where to look. All kinds of practical stuff. Thanks Brother Albach for coming and helping us.

May 20, 2009

It was all-out war at Lazer Assault. We had fun running (I mean walking) around in the dark and shooting each other. Kaitlyn was our top scorer.

May 16, 2009

The girls took a trip to the Bountiful temple. Haley and Carolyn were our leaders and Brother Albach was our priesthood.

May 6, 2009

We put together salsa gardens. We took a big pot and planted tomatoes, peppers, onions, and cilantro. When they grow we can make a spicy batch of salsa.

April 29, 2009
Camp First Aide Clinic.

April 15, 2009

Happy Birthday Rachel! Welcome to our Young Women group!!!

April 8, 2009
Sister Siragusa's brother-in-law came and spoke to us about relationships. He gave the girls big, bright, green shirts to remind them about R.A.F.T. {Righteous And Faithful Teens}. He talked about socializing and dressing modestly and being good examples and having fun. He was fun to visit with and came all the way from Layton!!! WoW! Look at these shirts. Do you think the girls will ever forget this?!

Peer Factor

We had a fun activity called Peer Factor. The kids did "daring" stunts like the show Fear Factor. The youth were GREAT! They all participated and did their best. They had to eat gross baby food, put their hands in ice water to find a key to unlock the lock, move dirty worms with their mouths, eat chocolate-covered crickets, and down a disgusting happy meal all blended together. All the kids were winners!

Temple # 3
We did baptisms at the Jordan River Temple tonight. We had a nice time together and it was a great way to spend the evening. Brother Albach came with us and helped with baptising. After the temple we got a bite (quite a bite!) at Tony Carinos...Yum!

March 29
Stake Speech Festival.
Kaitlyn represented
our ward and did a fantastic
job. A great big THANKS to
Brother and Sister Sipherd
for coaching the youth. It
was great getting to know
you : )

April Calendar
1 Jordan River Temple
4-5 General Conference
8 Personal Progress (Relationships)
12 Stake Conference
13-17 Spring Break
15 Rachel's Albach's Birthday
22 YW Combined (Peer Factor)
25 Preparedness Fare (help with activies)
29 First Aide Clinic 7:00

Young Women General Broadcast

March 28, 2009

Once again we met to hear from our young women leaders and our prophet.

McKinlee came and spent the evening with me. We look forward to General Conference next week.

Thank you, Bishop, for the yummy dinner! You are the best. Who else has a bishop who smokes?

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We visited Jim Wohwend's Karate Studio. I think the pictures say it all!

"I Love To See The Temple"

Our monthly trip was to the Timpanogos temple. It was Sister Miller's birthday so she wasn't able to go. Sister Molyneux and Brother Albach took Kaitlyn and Madison. They had a great time and stopped by Purple Turtle for treats afterward. Yum!!!

We are so proud of our youth. Every one of them participated in the speech festival and did a great job. Kaitlyn Albach was picked by the judges to go on to the next round.

We got together at Sister Miller's house where we decorated white buckets with sparkley letters. We called them our temple buckets. We also made temple envelopes to put in them along with a picture of the temple temple handkerchiefs. They are so pretty and every time we look at them, they will remind us that we want to go to the temple.

March Calendar

4 Temple Buckets
11 Speach Festival
14 Baptisms at Timpanogos Temple
18 YM/YW Karate
21 Bishop's Dinner
28 General Young Women Broadcast
29 Standards Night (Speach Festival)

February 25

We had a lovely night at New Beginnings. We welcomed in our new Beehives this year which are Rachel Albach, Alicia Siragusa, and Sara Youell. Kimmie and Chance Gurr were our speakers and told of special temple experiences. They brought special things like a picture frame made out of wood from the St. George Temple and a little piece of plaster from the original plaster on the temple.
The girls sang A Believer's Prayer. It was beautiful! And I want everyone to remember the analogy of the apple and your Personal Progress. Where is your apple?

Oh... and dessert was Costco chocolate cake. Yum!!!

February 18

All the young women and young men, the leaders, and bishopric crowded into the bishop's office and planned youth conference for this summer. Ideas went from Strawberry Pinnacles to Flaming Gorge to St. George and a few places in between. After much discussion we left not really decided. Decisions have been made! Strawberry Pinnacles it is!!!

February 11

We took our first step to completing our goal of doing baptisms in 12 temples this year. Our first temple was the Provo temple. What a busy temple! It is great to see so many people with a desire to do the work of the Lord. We were a part of that. Because of the number of people that night, the girls were only able to do two names each...still a good night.

On February 4th we all went to Carolyn Johnson's house where she taught the girls to cross stitch.  They LOVED the cute patterns she had and all enthusiastically began a project.  Can't wait to post the finished project!  How is it coming girls?

Scheduled for February

4 - Cross Stitch

11- Temple

18- planning Youth Conference

25- New Beginnings

Jan 21  For our activity we went to Sister Johnson's house and had pizza and rootbeer floats then did "Personal Progress interviews"...kind of.  It was an attempt to figure out where we were even though we were lacking a few books! Keep working girls!

January 13th we went to Dressed in White and one of the sisters talked to us about the importance of being modest and let us try on some temple dresses. The girls were stunning! Red Mango yogurt topped off our evening.