I just got back from a Young Women achievement night at the church and it was so wonderful! Lauren is a Mia-Maid and Heather will be a Beehive this month. Lauren looked so pretty in her sparkly red dress. They had twinkle Christmas lights and a very nice layered white cake and pictures of the ten virgins. The girls sang some nice songs and then they did a skit where they talked about the ten virgins (parable in the bible) and having your lamp filled with oil. Each of the girls held a candle that was lit and some girls that said they did things that didn't prepare them for Christ second comming had their light darkened. It made you think how important it is each day to fill our lamps with oil and to do good things every day to prepare for Christ second comming. I'm so thankful for the church and the young women program that teaches us to do good and to stay virtuous in thought and action. The personal progress helps strengthen your faith in and testimony of Jesus Christ and to learn his teachings and regularly apply them to our lives. A quote from a prophet of the Lord "Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me a young woman who faithfully attends her church meetings, who is a seminary graduate, who has earned her Young Womanhood Recognition Award and wears it with pride! Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity." President Ezra Taft Benson 1985-94-To the young women of the church.