Stake Recognition Night

Each year we try to recognize the girls who have received their medallion as a stake. I hoped that it would encourage the girls to work a little harder on receiving it. This year we had 9.

With the new value......Gold for virtue, we decorated in gold. Kris even made us a gold flag.
Kristen Caldwell put together a DVD of the nine girls who talked about personal progress and bore their testimonies. She added some pictures and a little quiz about each person. It turned out so good. Kristen, you are still amazing. I still want to clone you.

The girls all brought tea cups and we had hot chocolate (3 flavors) and lots of cookies. The High Councilmen served the hot chocolate from our little tea pots.

Then we had great speakers. We were hoping to have David Archuleta come with our speaker Bro. Hales but he did not. That was okay. Morgan did a great job introducing the 2009 theme as did Bro. Hales. He talked about how David is a good example of the believers. We need more 'idols' to be good examples for our youth.

Each girl was to bring things that they had done for personal progress to display.
Here is the Stake table.

For our handouts we did a tile that said "Be Thou an Example" and a bookmark that had a quote from Sister Dalton on Virtue for all who came and the nine girls got a beautiful necklace with two stars.

It was a fun night. I hope if nothing else, those who attended felt the spirit and the love that our Heavenly Father has for them and of course, the love that I have for them too. I wish that I could put into words my feelings for these youth and leaders that are in our stake but there are no word that would describe those feelings.

Thank you Heavenly Father for allowing me to be a part of their lives.....