Personal Progress Moves to the Internet!

Now young women can do their Personal Progress on the computer by going to personalprogress.lds.org. Each young woman can link to all of the scriptures, track her progress, submit her plans and report when she is finished with each step as she earns her Young Womanhood Recognition award and medallion. Plus, she can keep her journal securely online and print out the entire book (including her journal) when she is finished.

Parents and leaders may approve the plans and projects of their young women. Leaders will be able to track the progress of the entire Young Women class.

Go to personalprogress.lds.org and start today!

Be an Example in Faith and Purity

In the recent general conference, Sister Mary N. Cook invited leaders to set a clear example for young women to follow. "If we have one hand on the rod and one hand in the world, we put our children and youth in danger of losing their way on the path. If our example is confusing, then in Jacob’s words, we lose “the confidence of [our] children, because of [our] bad examples" (Jacob 2:35). Parents, grandparents and leaders, your message must be clear. Clarity can only result from having both hands on the rod and from living by the truths found in the scriptures and the words of latter-day prophets. You may not be raising a prophet as Lucy was, but you are certainly raising tomorrow’s leaders, and your actions are just as tangibly linked to their faith."

Leaders are invited to view this clip from Sister Cook and to study the full text of her talk.

"In the strength of the Lord, I can do hard things"

In this month's Young Women Church News article Sister Dalton invites leaders to "ask the youth they lead to do hard things." As you do this, youth will "grow and rise. They will become confident." She relates the experience of one ward where the young women were strengthened as they set out to accomplish the "seemingly impossible." "These young women were not only told that they were great, but they were given the opportunity to BE great, to ACT great, and to DO great things."

Leaders can find additional messages from the Young Women General Presidency in the Church News. A new article is published the third week of each month.

• October 16, 2010, "Latter-day Saint Young Women: 'In the strength of the Lord, I can do hard things',” by Elaine S. Dalton
• September 17, 2010, "'She Glowed!' Young Woman Filled with Light Before Baptism,” by Elaine S. Dalton
• August 20, 2010, Anxiously Engaged in a Good Cause,” by Elaine S. Dalton
• July 17, 2010, “Ribbons, Recognition, and Relationships,” by Elaine S. Dalton
• June 19, 2010, “Bee a Mentor,” by Elaine S. Dalton
• May 15, 2010, "We Can Rise Above: Virtue Begins in the Heart and Mind," by Sister Elaine S. Dalton
• April 17, 2010, "A Call to Action," by Sister Mary N. Cook