Welcome!

Welcome! This is a space to record and share the activities that the youth in our ward are doing for mutual. I welcome suggestions and would love to hear if you have done something similar.

We are members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Every Tuesday (or Wednesday, depending on the ward) evening, the youth ages 12-18 in our church meet for an activity which we call mutual. Sometimes the young men and young women meet separately  and sometimes they combine together. If you would like to learn more about our church, please feel free to ask, or visit www.mormon.org for more information.

The Young Women in our church have a program called Personal Progress that I will refer to frequently. This program encourages the girls to set and accomplish goals for themselves. The goals help the girls to grow spiritually, emotionally and physically and strengthen themselves, their families, and those they interact with. These goals fall under 8 different categories: Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity, and Virtue. They are numbered in the books, so sometimes I will refer to Knowledge 1 or Good Works 6. The girls are supposed to complete 6 smaller goals in each category (except virtue, which only has 4) and one value project, which is supposed to take at least 10 hours to complete. When they finish everything, they receive a Young Womanhood Recognition Award and a necklace. To learn more about personal progress, go here: https://www.lds.org/young-women/personal-progress?lang=eng.