Each activity section of the Faith in God for Girls program offers the opportunity for girls to carry out two activities in each section per year. The girls can select from the list, and each list includes an invitation to develop one project on her own that is not included in the list. Following are several ideas for each of the sections.
(For more on these requirements, see Faith in God for Girls)
1. Learning and Living the Gospel
Choose one gospel topic you’d like to learn more about. Search your Friend magazines or search at LDS.org for Friend articles, scriptures and other resources based on your topic. Make a notebook of articles, stories, poems, scriptures and pictures that help you learn about this topic. You might enjoy preparing a talk or Family Home Evening on this topic.
Find a friend who wants to practice living a gospel principle that you also want to work on. Together, make a goal, and then write out your plan to achieve it. Decide how to help each other, and make rules so you help, not hurt. Work on certain parts of this goal together. When you are finished, each of you should write about the experience and how it helped to work with a friend. If you feel this made your friendship stronger, write about that also.
2. Serving Others
Offer to help in the Enrichment Night Nursery. Plan a craft project to do with the children or read them stories. Be sure you really take care of the children, and don’t get distracted by toys, friends or adults in the room.
Help your family by planning one week of nutritious meals. Try to include at least one favorite meal for each person in your family. Think about the costs of the food and how much time the meals take to prepare. On nights some people have to attend meetings or classes, the meals should be simple. Place each menu on a file card. Beside each food item, write where the recipe is. On the back, write a list of ingredients. Consider adding one extra meal a week. Then help your family develop a plan to use this meal list.
3. Developing Talents
Find someone in your ward who has a talent you would like to develop. Offer to help her with something in exchange for a few lessons on her talent. You might offer to play with her children while she cleans, or to weed her garden.
Help a young child develop a new talent. While you are helping that child, you will be developing a talent for helping others!
4. Preparing for Young Women
The girls in Young Women must learn leadership skills. Ask adults and older girls what they think makes someone a good leader. Then practice being that kind of person. You don’t have to be given a calling or a special assignment to be a leader. When you are at church, school or home, look for ways to serve without being asked. That’s leadership.
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