Recently, we decided that we wanted our Young Women Activities to have more spiritual themes. This does not mean that they have to be boring. Our latest Young Women Activity was about missionaries and missionary work and turned out really fun.
We started out with a Missionary relay race.
1. Open envelope and see where you are called. Dress in Sister missionary attire (I had cardigans and skirts with elastic waists so it would be fast and easy to put on).
2. Go to world map, find your mission and place sticky note arrow that was in mission call envelope.
3. Go to the MTC (Missionary Training Center) and complete two tasks.
{A} Use the scriptures to find the reference for a group of scriptures. I used D&C 4:1-7 (Now behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men…). I told them to try using key words from the scriptures and looking them up in the topical guide. I had an advisor waiting for them to give the correct reference.
{B} Memorize and repeat three different sentences in Spanish. (Our mission calls were to Spain and Venezuela)
- Will you read the Book of Mormon?
- I have a testimony of our Savior.
- Where is the bathroom?
Another adviser (We love you and will miss you Amanda!) was waiting for them to tell them all three correctly.
4. Last they had to make a paper airplane and throw it on to a big X on the floor to fly to and arrive at their mission destination. This took quite a few tries!
Click on the thumbnails below if you want to print the text for the mission calls, scriptures and Spanish sentences.
I brought this little handout with an activity list and a treat for a couple of the girls to take to an inactive girl in our ward.
This turned out to be a really fun Young Women activity with some great gospel exposure. Now I just need to figure something out for our Temple grounds walk activity this week!
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What a cool activity! I work with high-school students and I love how you had them throw paper airplanes to arrive at their destination. SO COOL!
*TEAR* I am really going to miss you guys! You will have to keep me updated about all the fun things you do! I am glad you picked Shannon – she is darling and will be so much fun! I love her as a neighbor!
What a fun idea!! I’m definitely going to bookmark this one!
How fun! I am excited to use this! I always need more ideas for YW! Thanks! 🙂
This is a great idea…this will be brought up in our next Presidency meeting…this would be fun to do.
I loved it! I’m going to translate your post to Portuguese and then share it with the YW leaders in my Branch. Thank you so muh for sharing. Hugs from Brazil.
What a fantastic idea! Thanks Michelle!
Love it! Found your idea on pinterest. Going to do this for Activity Days!
Did the yw do the relay race in groups or as pairs or by themselves? Did they all start at the same time, because it seems like they would be going through all together and some stations would get backed up?
Jennifer,
We did it with our Beehives, so they just split up in two groups that started at the same time and raced. We had two of each station so it worked out perfectly.
Thanks for sharing this idea! I just adjusted it to fit my pack meeting with our little cubscouts this evening and it turned out to be a lot of fun!
Fun! I may have to do this for our activity this week!
Thanks so much for this idea!! Did it last night with my girls and invited to sister missionaries from the ward and they shared the most wonderful experiences!! They had the girls hanging on every word! We had so much fun!
That you so much! We are doing this activity tonight. I’m so excited.
I did want to let you know that the Spanish on your, “Will you read the Book of Mormon” is incorrect.
It should say: Leerá el Libro de Mormon? (instead of Leeres.)
No Biggie though.
Thanks again or such a fun, creative idea.
This is such a great idea. I know you mentioned that you just did it with your beehives in 2 groups. Do you think I would be able to do it with more youth than that? Any ideas as to how I could get it to work with more?
You could totally do it with more. Just do it in the gym and break them up in to more groups.
I have finally found you!! What I mean is I am part of the young woman presidency in my ward. I have been looking for some help! We have a very small active young woman and a lot of inactive ones. So for my activity night which is this coming Wednesday! I had planned on having the girl’s make a fun cute gift and or activity to take to the inactive. Doing a little the young women’s. Inviting them to church or even just an activity. I am hoping you can help me with some ideas. Thank you for always sharing your gifts and talents to everyone