Submitted by: Colleen

You will need someone to be the Head Special Agent. It can be a YW Leader. We used a Member of the Bishopric. He dressed in the trench coat, etc. We did this in the cultural hall and we have a portable stage so we set that up to look like a briefing room, but you could just to it in the front of the room. You will need a world map and the word strips mentioned later. We had most of the lights out, and the doors to the cultural hall were locked except the ones the girls and their parents came through. On that one we had a sign that said "Authorized Personnel Only." As the girls arrived we gave them their name badges, each with a different level of investigator for the age they were:

Rookie-Brand new beehive (one whose birthday was right when we held New Beginnings),
Investigator-1Y Beehive,
Senior Investigator-2Y Beehive,
Inspector-1Y Mia Maid,
Senior Inspector-2Y Mia Maid,
Detective-1Y Laurel,
Master Detective 2Y Laurel,
Super Sleuth-Those who had earned their Medallion,
Special Agent-All Leaders. (i.e. INVESTIGATOR JONES)

They were admitted to the cultural hall after they had their badge and with the secret knock on the door. After the Welcome, song, prayer, and theme, we began the program.

We first honored all the Super Sleuths who had earned their medallion during the previous year with a rose.

HEAD SPECIAL AGENT: Welcome agents, I will begin tonight's briefing with a letter form the office of the President of the Young Women's Organization: (Open Letter and Read)

"With confidence in you, we issue this call, Young women of these latter days, come hold your torches high, that Christ's true light through you will shine, His name to glorify. We honor you, we pray for you, and we love you. God bless you."

HEAD SPECIAL AGENT: That is your mission, should you choose to accept it. Now, a word of warning: enemy forces await you at every step of your mission. Procrastination, Laziness, Distraction, and Forgetfulness are just a few of the agents we have identified. (Point to these words that are place on a world map).

To succeed, you will need to join forces with agents already undercover. For their protection, I will not tell you their real names, but they are known in the field as Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works and Integrity. (Point to words on map) Do you have any questions?

YOUNG WOMAN: (We used an older Laurel who was on stage with the Head Agent:) Who can help us to rendezvous with these undercover agents?

HEAD AGENT: Excellent question, agent, I will quote you the procedures manual: (Use part of the introduction, or other quotes from the Personal Progress Book.)

YOUNG WOMAN: How will we know what to do when we rendezvous with the undercover agents?

HEAD AGENT: Each agent in this room has a Procedures Manual (Hold up Personal Progress Book) that provides assignments to complete with each of these field agents. In order for Operation Personal Progress to be a success, each agent here will need to accomplish 6 assignments and one field project with the undercover agents of Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, and the rest.

Several Agents in this room have already worked on assignments with these undercover agents during Operation Personal Progress this year. For the purposes of this briefing, I will have some of them report on their specific assignments now.

(At this point we had seven of the Young Women who had been sitting in the audience jump up with flashlights, dressed in camouflage or whatever that would be agent looking, and search around the room while the Mission Impossible Theme played. Then they lined up at the back to come forward to do their parts. Our ward has large flags for each of the value colors and they brought these with them and posted them before they said their part.)

AGENTS: The seven Young Women came forward one at a time posted their flag gave the statement and scripture that goes with each value and then briefly told of an experience or project they had accomplished in that value.

HEAD AGENT: Thank you agents. We know others in this room are excited to begin their missions so we will send you out to begin "Operation Personal Progress."

The girls are instructed now where to go to accomplish an activity in the book that night. You can have 2 or three planned so that if they have already finished one they can choose something else. Or check all their progress and see what they need. Have your super sleuths and those girls who are done with all the experiences and working on projects help lead the workshops. We had the parents participate in the activities right along with their daughters, they all thought it was great.

If you use this for YWIE, then you could have their accomplishments displayed on tables and would not necessarily have to do an activity.

We have had Laurel's who need projects be in charge of New Beginnings, and YWIE. They do a great job, and love what they learn from it. We of course on always available to help where we are assigned. If you have any questions, email me.

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