Contributed by Maya Carter zookeeper4kids@bellsouth.net (2/7/08)

Just wanted to celebrate my first successful New Beginnings last night.  It turned out AMAZING. We used  The Steadfast like a Rock theme from Latter-day Village I believe.  It was all  in Black and white and looked elegant. We had each of my presidency so  something. My 1st councilor talked about being steadfast like a rock, my 2nd councilor introduced the new beehives. And my PP specialists I have 2 shared the PP program. I shared the story of how the PP program came to be. But truly the Hit of the evening was not the leaders.. The  girls were such stars. Each girl was assigned something.   One shared what the 2008 mutual theme meant to her.   Another  shared the YW Theme saying in a personal  way, “ I am a daughter of a heavenly father that loves me...." Then she  had all stand to recite. Some of the other girls were assigned a value  to share what it meant to her. This was filled with wonderful stories  and the spirit was so strong.  Four of our girls sang "If the Savior Stood  Beside me" and it was wonderful.

Then we showed the DVD presentation from Jenny Phillips and I gave out a little gift for each girl with the 2008 Jenny Phillips Cd and Rock candy.

For dessert we had  angel-food cake, strawberries and whip cream - all homemade .  We had Black party dishes, napkins and black and white forks.  We also served Shirley temples which was a HUGE hit. One detail that was also really loved was I made a huge collage of black and white photos of all my girls from the past year.  They loved the  collage. All the pictures were matted on black card-stock and we put it on the back of a moving chalk board.  It filled the whole thing With the "Steadfast and Immovable" Logo at the top. Afterwards I moved the  pictures onto the wall of our YW room.. it looks so great!! the Girls
love looking for themselves in pictures.

2008 Theme

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