Christmas Fest 2009

Well last night the Youth from Devenport Stake (and some from Hobart) attended CHRISTMAS FEST! It was a great night with lots of games and activities for the youth to participate in. Games included apple bobbing, present unwrapping dressed in oven mitts and santa hat, Christmas trees, reindeers and Santa's! And of course the most anticiapted dance the ho down throw down, check out the video below! The Stake leaders also put together a skit which was funny and was enjoyed by all!
At the end of the night everyone had some yummy supper of Spiders and reindeer cupcakes and snow ball christmas trees.













Hoedown throwdown part 1

Howdown throwdown part 2

December 2009 Newsletter

News Corner

December is going to be a busy month!
We are having a combined Christmas party on the 15th and we need to bring a small gift, listen out for more details.

On the 22nd we are going to make a Christmas tree with stars.
The mutual after Christmas we are going to have a wind down and enjoy a BBQ together and a time to just relax and unwind and talk about how good our Christmas’s were!

On the 12th we have our Ward Christmas Party so check out the notice board for more details.

On the 13th there is a First Presidency Christmas Devotional planned, stay tuned to more details as they become available.

Along with the church goings on there is many happening going on with school, some of you will have your leavers dinners and presentation evenings. Our beehives are moving up and on to HIGH SCHOOL, no more primary kids anymore!!!!!!

One birthday this month, and that is Angela’s on the 14th, so Happy Birthday to me!

For the Strength of Youth

Go forward with Faith
The standards presented in this pamphlet will help you make correct choices. Review them often and ask yourself, “Am I living the way the Lord wants me to live?”
To help you become all that the Lord wants you to become, get on your knees each day and express to Him the desires of your heart. He is the source of all wisdom, and you need His help. He will hear and answer you.
Read the scriptures daily. They are a powerful source of personal revelation and a constant strength to your testimony.
Remember and keep the covenants you made when you were baptized and that you renew each week when you partake of the sacrament. You young men should keep the covenants you made when you received the priesthood. Keeping these covenants now will help you prepare for the temple covenants you will make in the future.
Be true to the Lord and to His Church in all circumstances. The authorities of the Church will lead you in paths of happiness. Be grateful for your membership in God’s great kingdom.
Be humble and willing to listen to the whisperings of the Spirit. Place the wisdom of the Lord above your own wisdom.
When you do these things, the Lord will make much more out of your life than you can by yourself. He will increase your opportunities, expand your vision, and strengthen you. He will give you the help you need to meet your trials and challenges. You will find true joy as you come to know your Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, and feel their love for you with Faith.

Sunday Schedules
Sam conducting

Sunday 6th
Opening Hymn: Sam to choose
Opening Prayer: Lizzie
Scripture: Aneika
Spiritual Thought: Dakota
Theme: All
Announcments:
Lesson: Righteous Living (Felicity)
Closing Prayer: Phebe

Sunday 13th
Opening Hymn: Sam to choose
Opening Prayer: Aneika
Scripture: Dakota
Spiritual Thought: Phebe
Theme: All
Announcements:
Lesson: Using Time Wisely (Clare)
Closing Prayer: Lizzie

Sunday 20th
Opening Hymn: Sam to choose
Opening Prayer: Dakota
Scripture: Phebe
Spiritual Thought: Lizzie
Theme: All
Announcements:
Lesson: The Purpose of Education (Ange)
Closing Prayer: Aneika

MUTUAL ACTIVITIES
Tuesday 1st
Combined with East Young Women- Christmas cooking and decorations

Tuesday 8th
Delivering the Christmas cooking to families.

Tuesday 15th
Combined West and East Young Men and Women- East running

Tuesday 22nd
Making star Christmas tree biscuits

Tuesday 29th
BBQ- come along and enjoy a get together before the year ends!

Personal Progress

How is your personal progress going? Do you need some help? Do you need to have some of the activities marked off?

This month we are looking at FAITH

Faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things, therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true
(Alma32:21)

I am a daughter of Heavenly Father, who loves me. I have faith in His eternal plan, which centers on Jesus Christ, my Savior.

Just a Reminder

Hi all just a reminder that we have no mutual tonight. But their is a concert and BBQ for all youth in the Stake tomorrow night with Kenneth Cope (Wednesday) ALSO the CES graduation and fireside featuring Kenneth Cope is on the Thursday night. Hope that everyone is well and that you enjoy your time with Brother Cope!

Gingerbread houses and some other antics!

Last night the young women from East and West combined and had Annette teach us how to make Nice biscuit gingerbread houses. The girls brought a stach of lollies to decorate and we all went to work on assembling our houses. The girsl had a great time and seemed to enjoy being able to have a chat to each other as they worked. Below are some of our creations, sorry you will have to guess which one is yours and I was unable to put all of them up as the site has been playing silly billies!!!!!!!

This is how we packaged them up at the end of the night, very pretty!

When everyone left last night Sam, Lizzie and Phebe were left behind waiting for Stake President (Sam and Lizzies Dad) So what better to do than let off some of the sugar rush that you are on, after eating a ton of lollies!!!!! We were shown the throw down hoe down in many ways including as Sam being a puppet for Lizzie as was Phebe! Sometimes the best fun comes after everyone has left!

Sorry about the quality I was using the trusty old mobile phone and I now realise that evrything is on it's side. But you get the idea of what happens when Sam and Lizzie are on a sugar rush!!!!!!

Mutual on the 3rd

Just a reminder to everyone coming to mutual that they need to bring small lollies and a plate to put their ginger bread house on, we are combined and we are making niece biscuit houses.

November 2009 Newsletter

Launceston West Ward Sunday Agenda and Mutual Activities
Conducting this month is: Dakota

Sunday 1st
Opening Hymn: Dakota choose
Opening Prayer: Lizzie
Scripture: Phebe
Spiritual Thought: Aneika
Theme: All
Lesson: WOW (Ange)
Closing Prayer: Sam

Sunday 8th
Opening Hymn: Dakota to choose
Opening Prayer: Phebe
Scripture: Aneika
Spiritual Thought: Sam
Theme: All
Lesson: Drug Abuse (Clare)
Closing Prayer: Lizzie

Sunday 15th
Opening Exercises with Relief Society
Lesson: The Ability to Succeed (Clare)
Closing Prayer: Aneika

Sunday 22nd
Opening Hymn: Dakota to choose
Opening Prayer: Sam
Scripture: Phebe
Spiritual Thought: Lizzie
Theme: All
Lesson: Health Care in the Home (Ange)
Closing Prayer: Aneika

Sunday 22nd
Opening Hymn: Dakota to choose
Opening Prayer: Sam
Scripture: Phebe
Spiritual Thought: Dakota
Theme: All
Lesson: Bishopric to take
Closing Prayer: Aneika

The 2009 Theme for the Youth

"Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity"
(1 Timothy 4:12).

Mutual Activities

Tuesday 3rd
Combined with East Young Women- Making Gingerbread houses.

Wednesday 10th
Scrapbooking with a twist!

Tuesday 17th
Combined Young Men and Young Women- West Young Men

Tuesday 25th
Decorate the Book of Mormon for a service project

NEWS CORNER

Well BootCamp was great and we were lucky enough to get a heap of things marked off for our Camp Crafter, looking forward to Camp in January!

Bishop Youth Committee is on the 15th of this month, so stay tuned for a venue!
Kenneth Cope’s Fireside is on this month, and he is also going to be at the CES graduation. A BBQ is going to be held on Wednesday the 18th starting at 5pm at the Walters place. You need to give the leaders notice prior to the 11th so we can confirm numbers for catering.

Stake Young Men and Women’s are holding a Christmas party on the 27th, stay tuned to more details as they come to hand!

Have you checked out the Stake Young Women’s blog? You can do so at
http://ywdevonport.blogspot.com/
It is going private soon so you will need to email Sister Lisa King to get on the list to access it her email is lisajking@hotmail.com

BOOT CAMP 09

Well yesterday we had the Stake Young Women boot camp and it was a great day! All the girls that attended enjoyed their day and it was a well planned day by our Stake Young Women's Presidency that includes Sarah, Lisa, Toni and Sascha. The day started with everyone arriving around 9.30 and getting some black war pain and a tough camo headband to wear. We then listened to Sarah give us a rund down of how we were going to wish we were sorry for coming as it was not goung to be an easy day. She then introduced Lisa as a once being in the army and Lisa got the whistle going and the girls lined up and made them do some high knees, pushups etc! She then picked on poor Zoe from Devenport by making her do 20 pushups for not having high enough knees. Zoe was a sport and did aout 10 on her toes which I reckon is pretty impressive as pushups on toes is rather hard. After the PAIN! We then had Toni talk about what was on the cards for the day. Each girl was given a lanyard to wear that had the levels for their camp carfter on it as well as were in colours so that the girls could easily be put into groups for the days activities. Each girl was then given a calico bag with their name on it as well as the Young Women torch logo that had a bottle of water and a trail mix for them to nibble on. We then had Bonnie teach the girls some CPR. After Bonnie everyone had a break for some morning tea.

After the morning tea the girls were split into their groups and sent to different stations where they learnt some first aid basics. Including a chance to practice their CPR, Frostbite, hypothermia, bites, wounds, and fractures ( think this is the main things!). After spening time at each station the girls then met back together and had Toni teach them how to make damper and then they cooked it for their lunch aong with some BBQ Sausages. They also had some biscuits in foil with marshmallows and choc chips in the middle that the girls seemed to like cooking in the fire.

After we had some lunch we then met back as a group and Had Simon teach the girls how to do rope knots and how to use the compass. Simon is a policman and also works with the search and rescue so he was very experienced in teaching us all. After learning the girls were split into ther groups to use their compass' so that they could find letter on trees to spell out a word, which turned out to be Nephi. Most of the groups worked well and found all the letters, one group wasn't sure what the letters spelt and thought it was HELPN! Not sure if they worked it out in the end or not. After this the girls were then given information in their groups and were sent out to look for people that had had some accidents and needed to be saved using the first aid and the knots they had learnt. Over all I think most of the accident people may have survivied although it was touch and go for some!!!!!!

After finishing the scenarios we then had Toni teach about fires and fire safety which was good and the girls were later able to put in practise some of the things they learnt including starting a fire with a magnifying glass, some people it worked for and others not as the cloud came over so their was no sun. The girls then had a chance to light a teepee fire and participated in a survivor challenge where they had to light their fire and which would burn a bit of string that would fly their flag. All teams managed to do this and some were quick and some it took a little longer to do. After they all lit their fires they then practised how to safely put them out.

The girls then had a chnace to write in their camp manuals on how they felt from their day and then they had Sarah chat to them about how impressed she was ithe the work they had into the day and how much they had learnt. The girls then sang the song 'Virtue' that they are learning and we closed our day. No sooner had we closed when some of the Deloraine girls got some buckets of water and started a water fight!!!!! I hear it was very planned although after reading Lisa's post I am thinking that maybe the leaders were expecting NOT to get drowned. Sorry to say that Lisa, Sarah and Toni got drowned as did Jayne who had come to pick up Taylor.

All in all it was a great day and all the girls worked hard, thanks to the Stake Young Women Leaders for making it a great day. I know that the talk in teh car on the way home was about how much fun we all had and that we are all looking forward to camp in January! I know from reading some blogs and facebook comments that their may be full on pay back going on in January so girls beware and make sure that when you come to camp in January that you are well prepared to have some water fun!

For more photos from the day check out Lisa's blog as I forgot my camera!