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Friendship is a
Special Gift
by Amy
Have a "Friendship is a Special Gift" activity and
fulfill this requirement in Personal Progress:
"Heavenly Father has given you special gifts. Read 1 Corinthians
12:4–12; 13; Moroni 7:12–13; 10:8–18; and Doctrine and Covenants 46:11–26.
Ask a family member, a Young Women leader, and a friend to write down
positive qualities the Lord has given you. List your gifts in your journal,
and write how you can continue to develop these gifts and use them to serve
your family and others."
Beforehand ask the dads or moms to write down what special gifts they think
their daughter has, have their young women leader do the same, then during
the evening you have a long sheet of paper for each girl with their name at
the top, have the girls sit in a circle, you give them their paper, and then
you have them pass them to the right - the person to their right writes a
sentence about a gift they think that girl possesses, then they fold the
paper up so their answer doesn't show and they pass it to the right again.
You could have some nice music playing in the background.
You could start the evening by having beautifully wrapped packages on a
table - inside you could have a paper with a gift written on it - you could
have each girl open one - this would get them thinking on the different
gifts that one could have - like sense of humor, kindness, gentleness,
honesty, positive, gift of faith, testimony, etc.
Then have them fill out each other's papers, then tell them you have a
special gift for each of them - tell them that their leaders and their
parents have also written them special letters, tell them that hopefully
they will treasure and cherish these letters, tell them that you hope they
will take them home, read them, pray about them and realize that they are
special daughter's of God and that he has indeed given them many gifts for
them to develop and if they do they will be blessed and their future
families will also be blessed for their diligence in magnifying what
Heavenly Father has already given them.
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