Training on Personal Progress Available Online By Walter Cooley, Church Magazines Eight interactive lessons are now available online to help leaders and parents encourage Young Women to use Personal Progress to remain temple worthy and prepare to become future leaders, wives, mothers, and homemakers. The Young Women general presidency urges stake and ward Young Women leaders to use the lessons to train new leaders. Parents can also download the lessons for review during their family home evenings. "Personal Progress prepares young women to strengthen their present homes, their future homes, and to make and keep temple covenants. This is our ultimate goal—to have young women worthy and prepared to go the temple and receive sacred covenants so they can return to our Father in Heaven," said Susan W. Tanner, Young Women general president. The set of lessons opens with a video clip from Elder Dallin H. Oaks. He relates the Savior's parable of the 10 virgins and teaches of the importance of preparation. In the same slide show, viewers can click on a map of seven areas around the world to hear young women testify about how Personal Progress helped them prepare for the future. One of these testimonies is from Celeste, a young woman from New Zealand. She testifies, "As I achieved my Personal Progress goals, my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ grew. I learned about the potential I had to be more like my Savior." In another lesson, viewers observe a conversation between Sister Chan, a Young Women leader, and Lin, a young woman in her class. Viewers review how Sister Chan learned and recognized Lin's interests and helped Lin set Personal Progress goals that matched her interests. At the end of the lesson, visitors are asked to apply the lesson's principles to members of their own class. A conversation in another lesson teaches leaders how to meet with parents and introduce the Personal Progress program. Viewers watch a ward Young Women president ask Maria about her future goals and then suggest how Personal Progress could help her reach those goals. Other topics addressed in the lessons are how to modify a value experience, how to use Mutual to support Personal Progress, how Young Women leaders can gain a testimony of Personal Progress by earning their Young Womanhood Recognition, and how to encourage young women to continue setting Personal Progress goals. The last lesson is a message from President Gordon B. Hinckley. In it, he pleads for leaders to help and encourage the young women in their stakes and wards. "When you save a girl, you save generations," said President Hinckley. Interactive online training is also available to help leaders teach appropriate behavior in Primary. (Click here for more information on Primary interactive learning.) To view or download the Young Women training go to www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,6002-1,00.html.