If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."

   This week we finished up an activity for the 11 year olds on the 13th article of faith:

 "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous,
  and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow
  the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things,
  we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all
  things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of  good report or
  praiseworthy, we seek after these things."

  We discussed what this means and learned some new words, like benevolent and admonition. We then had a little story and got to play charades.We had some good actors and good guessers.  We finished off with a wordsearch and some chocolate chip cookies.
   You girls are so smart and know so much already.   Maybe you can share some of your ideas with your family.
     Don't forget your homework for the next activity.  We will be having a campfire and making s'mores at the Ott's.  You need to prepare a family story to share.  It can be a story about any of your ancestors from your parents on back and can be humorous, serious, inspiring or anything that you would like to share.
      You should also prepare a 4 generation pedigree chart.  You can find one at  pedigree.pdf .  Call Sis. Holbrook or Sis. Oliverson if you have questions.

Virtue

     Karen Oliverson had a great lesson and activity on virtue at our last meeting. For all the girls who are 11- thiswill help with bullet #1 in the Preparing for Young Women in the manual.  She talked about virtue and had the girls think about things that made you virtuous.  They used these ideas to create flowers.

     

She then taught an object lesson  involving a pretty cupcake and a bug.

 Something can look wonderful but if there is one part wrong it can ruin the whole effect.  She talked about movies and music and clothes.  If there is a bad scene, language or something immodest, that is the sting that can get you and we need to stay away from those things. 
      Then we learned how to make very cute cupcakes with marshmallows and colored sugar.  We had a great time.