Take Note...
by Melanie Day
 

This gift is a collection of testimonies of those that serve in your Young Women Program (President, counselors, secretary, advisors/teachers, camp director, personal progress leader, etc.)  These albums are to serve as a source of strength.  It could be given to Young Women as they graduate to Relief Society, as a birthday or Christmas gift, or when the girls come into Young Women's.  It could be used as a handout for New Beginnings or Young Women in Excellence....it could be used for any occasion really.

It can be as elaborate or as simple as you make it.  You could put these testimonies in any kind of binder...I was just thinking it would be cute to make paper bag albums (see instructions below).  You could even have the girls make their own albums at an activity and then take them back to finish them by printing off the testimonies of:

President Hinckley

Your Bishop and/or Stake President

Young Women President and those in the Presidency 

Leave a page for the Young Women to add their own

P.S. Ask all the leaders to pray before writing their entry.  Maybe they could share their conversion story, a special learning experience or something that could build another young woman's testimony.
 

Paper bag albums - You take 3 paper lunch bags and fold them in half. Punch 4 - 5 holes along the left hand side to make it look like a book. Decorate in "scrapbook" style - Very easy.

- Click here to get instructions on how to make paper bag albums.  - See examples of this craft: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4

* If you make these albums and can send me a picture, I'd love to post it along with this page.  Just e-mail me.  Thanks!