You asked for the 8 Super Values skit and here it is. The skit was written by two of our Beehives. If you missed the first post about our Superhero themed YW in Excellence be sure to go back and check it out!

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As another little bonus, here is what we did for our program. They were printed on gold and red cardstock and left on the tables. We used the blank shield from the first post and just filled in the YW in Excellence outline. Super simple!

We had the most amazing super hero movie/slideshow that I wish I could share. It had amazing graphics and awesome music put together by a professional composer who also happens to be in our Bishopric and married to our YW President, but it involved lots of pics of the girls and their names so I thought it would be a privacy issue to post it.

Here is the text from it so you can get the idea. Each line is a new “slide”

The World (Pics of darkness and lightning)
Dark
Dangerous
Deceptive
Many search for hope
for light
in a world of darkness
Are there heroes in our day?
Do you know where your cape is? (pic of cape)
It’s time to put it on
Be strong and of a good courage; (pics of heavens)
Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
For the Lord thy God is with thee…
withersoever thou goest
Joshua 1:9
These are the heroes
(pics of the girls from the last year, ending with each of those who got their young womanhood recognition)
(a few pics of a big city)
The hero is within you (pic of red telephone booth & superman theme playing)
Your cape is waiting
Rise above
Now is the time
Be strong and of a good courage
for the Lord thy God is with thee
withersoever thou goest
(showed each of the girls names one at a time)
(a few pics of Christ’s life)
Heroes needed
One size fits all (pic of a bunch of homemade capes that looked like ours)

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This year for YW in Excellence we decided to go with a Superhero theme. We liked how it coordinated with the “Be Strong and of a good courage” mutual theme and also went a long with the “For strength of youth.”

Each girl will be wearing a cape in a value color. We are lucky enough to have 24 small tablecloths in value colors so we are just going to pin them on and add a value shield to the back with double sided tape. Each girl got their value shield in advance to decorate however they wanted. We just printed them on cardstock.

We are going to start with a “soup”er dinner. We will be serving the soup out of large pumpkins with shields carved in them. Behind the serving table we will have a banner with each girl’s picture that reads “Our Superheros.” On each seating table, there will be a ring of rolls made in a bundt pan with salad supreme on them to keep with the fall decor.

We will also have display tables for people to peruse with shields where each girl wrote about their favorite personal progress project from the year. We gave them blank cardstock shields a couple of weeks in advance to write on.

After dinner we will have the 8 Supervalues skit that my Beehives wrote and will perform. I will try to get an electronic copy of this to post.

At this point in the program, the girls will stand one at a time wearing their value cape and say “I show my strength and courage through the power of (whatever value they chose).” They will then share an experience from that year that helped them demonstrate or develop that value.

Click thumbnails above to view and print value sign up sheet and “I will show my strength and courage” paper reminders.

italics=slow
bold=with emphasis

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves us, and we love Him.
We will “stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things,
and in all places” as we strive to live
the Young Women values, which are:
Faith
Divine Nature
Individual Worth
Knowledge
Choice and Accountability
Good Works
Integrity
and Virtue.
We believe as we come to accept and act upon these values,
we will be prepared to strengthen home and family, make and keep sacred covenants,
receive the ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exaltation.

I think we may also send each girl home with a CTR ring as a take home.

Feel free to use any of these ideas for your YW in Excellence!

*Update: I got such a positive response and so many requests that I did a second post on our YW in Excellence including the skit and super hero slideshow.

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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.

After the relay, I shared how my Bishop in college said that if we pray for a missionary experience we would get one. I told them how I prayed and the experience I had. Then I challenged each of them to pray for a missionary experience and promised them that they could have one. Personal Progress Good Works Experience #7 goes perfectly with this.

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.

To close our Young Women activity, we brought paper and stickers for the girls to write letters to the missionaries from our ward (we have four, two in the states and two in the MTC still so postage was easy). Then, I brought them home and have been mailing one to each missionary every couple of days so the they would get letters for a week. The girls are excited to see if they write back.

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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