On Wednesday night, all of the BD youth met in Sis. V's backyard to watch the Church's celebration of youth and this year's theme - Be Thou an Example of the Believers.It was an inspiring program of fun music and wonderful messages about how youth all over the world have stood steadfast and immovable, and abounded in good works in 2008, and encouragement and challenges to be examples of the believers in 2009. I was so fun to see the entire conference center filled with other youth who are also committing them selves to be examples of the believers. The entire program, including all the singing and the orchestra, was all done by youth.
Using our For The Strength of Youth booklets, we each made a commitment to work on 3 of the areas in the book for 2009, and put them on commitment cards. Are we all working on our commitments?
Sister Dalquist, the general young women's president, also asked us to promise to do 3 things this year.
1. Pray everyday - morning and night.
2. Read the Book of Mormon at least 5 minutes a day.
3. Smile. (Because the believers are happy!)
We all promised that we would do these three easy things.
We also had hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows for s'mores - and that made us start smiling already.
We have such great youth in our ward (and great leaders too)! We really are Examples of the Believers!Be sure to check the widget on the sidebar of this blog, because it has all the fun music from the program. Or click on the link or go to www.abrandnewyear.lds.org to download all the music, a widget of your own, watch the program, or the making of the program, and much more. It is a fun site.
Keep smiling!
