Young Women and Excellence

Rachel had Young Women and Excellence Tuesday October 25th. For the last while she has been working on cleaning and organizing her room. I have never seen a room so messy before. For over 2 months she never made her bed or even put her sheets on it. I even at one point saw her smell her clothes to see if they were clean. Eek. It was so bad. Well she spent a long time cleaning and after getting rid of 1 black garbage bag full of garbage and 3 laundry baskets full of clothes (she gave them to a friends who's Dad doesn't have a job), her room was almost clean. She then organized her room, reorganized her closet and hung her mirrors her room was clean. Rachel also spent hours recovering a chair for her room and making throw pillows for her bed. She made curtains as well but wants to do more to them. Her room looks fantastic now. She even went and retouched up the paint.

Rachel had never sewn before and so I taught her how to do it and she did all of her sewing projects herself. I showed her where to cut and pin and then sew and she did it herself. I was so impressed with how well she did sewing her first time.

We have an amazing ward who does so much to help the girls achieve their Young women recognition award. Every girl had a 10 hour project that they completed. They all presented them last night. The girls sang 2 songs and there was a beautiful program. It was so amazing. After we had cheese cake with the value colors on each piece. The cheesecakes were on the table in order of the values. So they had cheesecake each with a different topping representing a value. That was fantastic.

When Rachel presented her project she told about how messy it was and what she did to make her room beautiful. She then said that it made her feel closer to Heavenly Father because you can't be happy when it's messy. The way she said it was so cute and funny. Everybody laughed and smiled.

I was so proud of her. She is exited now to get other projects done. She has 4 projects in mind to start working on. I am so grateful for amazing young women leaders who encourage the girls but also for Rachel being willing and excited (most of the time) to work on her projects and value experiences.