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Relief Society: BYU’s Women’s Conference

Every year at the beginning of May BYU puts on a Women’s Conference. It is a short two-day conference that takes place on campus. This year the conference is April 20 and May 1, 2009. Additionally there are service projects that you can participate in while you attend the conference. This year the projects will be set up in rooms where you can also watch different class presentations while you serve. This conference has many presentations that focus on living the gospel and helping your family. The presentations are always uplifting and may offer spiritual insight into doctrine or they … Continue reading →

Planning a Fun LDS Summer Vacation for Your Family

The summer is a great time to plan a family vacation. It is even better if you can incorporate your gospel teaching into this time that you spend together as a family. You can plan a long road trip and hit most of the church historical sites or you can plan a shorter vacation and only see one or two of the sites. In the New York area you can attend the Hill Cumorah Pageant and visit the Sacred Grove and other museums that the church has set up in the area. This is all near around and Palmyra, New … Continue reading →

Plan Now for Summer Activities

If you have youth, you may want to start thinking about registering them for a summer camp through BYU. There are many options available to you, including EFY, sports camps and camps about the performing arts. It is a great opportunity to give your children. They will look back on the time with good memories. The EFY camps (the most popular option) are available throughout the United States, and there are several that take place each week. Registration does fill up fast, so you need to go ahead and do it now. If you are looking for an experience that … Continue reading →

Young Women: The Benefits of Girls’ Camp

As someone who is not overly fond of hiking and the outdoors in general, I always attended Girls’ Camp at the orders of my mother. She had made me a deal that if I went for the four years to pass of everything, that I would not have to go again. I went my four years, and I haven’t been since. I really have not been camping since either. But I plan on having my daughters attend Girls’ Camp when it is time. Girls’ Camp gives the young women a chance to develop closer friendships, which can help them as … Continue reading →

Young Men: Summer Activities

It is important to keep your son out of trouble over the summer months. The summer is great for relaxing and having fun, but it easy for kids to get in trouble if they have too little to do. Here are five activities that you may consider having your young man do over the summer. 1) You can have your son work. One common job is mowing lawns; another is taking on a paper route. You may also consider encouraging your sixteen year old to find work over the summer. You can encourage your son to pay his tithing and … Continue reading →

Young Men and Young Women: Summer Activities

It is time to begin thinking of summer activities for your youth. There are activities for your youth to attend with your ward, and then activities you may want to enroll them in this summer. I have included a few ideas as well. It is better to busy in the summer, than bored and getting into trouble. 1) Youth conference is a great activity for all LDS youth over that age of fourteen. This is a lot of fun. The ward or the stake may plan youth conference. Occasionally stakes may combine to plan youth conference. Youth conference is usually … Continue reading →

Five Themes for a Stake Youth Dance

You may be on the planning committee for the next stake youth dance. If so you may be struggling to come up with an idea for your next youth dance. You can help to enliven a dance by having a fun theme picked out for each dance that you plan. Here are five easy ideas. 1) You can have a tropical or Hawaiian theme night. This is easy to decorate for with large flowers, and leis hanging on the walls. You can have the youth come in summer attire or Hawaiian shirts. Of course you need to request knee length … Continue reading →