Find out ahead of time if this an older sister in your ward has ever recorded her history for her children. If she hasn't, take a tape recorder and record some of her stories. Have specific things in mind - what is the most important thing a mother can do for her children, when did she realize she had a testimony, what was her first date like, what does she feel she has accomplished in this life. Take pictures while you are there and ask if she has any pictures you could use to put together her history. Type up the stories and put together a scrapbook for her to give to her children.

My mother did this for me for Christmas. She wrote about things she's never mentioned before. I couldn't imagine my mother playing with tarantulas! Or the time she singed off all of her eyebrows and eyelashes because she'd tried to hurry and light the stove with kerosene after letting the fire go out while her parents were gone. My favorite was when they found out they were getting a baby brother instead of a squirrel!

You could have her tell funny stories and then share some spiritual stories too.

If she knows how to crochet, ask her to teach the young women how to start a doily. I have several that my mother made for me and instead of putting them out I've matted and framed them. They are a beautiful display of one of my mother's talents. If the young women completed one, they would be fulfilling a personal progress goal and use it as part of a display for Young Women in Excellence depending on the goals she's set. Ü

Your laurel could crochet a doily that would be a visual reminder (one of the requirements) of the beautiful crocheted coverings on the temple alters and that some day she too will knee before her Heavenly Father at the alters in the temple.

Let us know how it goes.