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VERY SCARY...YW Photo Shoot

The night before last Valynn and Jayni came over for the MOST hilarious night. I was laughing until I was crying. We are preparing for New Beginnings (a night for the young women, their parents, and all incoming young women...to explain YW's, Personal Progress, and to kick off the new year). This year for New Beginnings our theme is "P.P.U" (Personal Progress University). We are going to have a collegiate theme and liken it to Personal Progress. Our invitations are "Acceptance Letters" to P.P.U. We are going to make pennants, balloons, and banners that will welcome the girls and their parents to "Student Orientation". The girls are to bring their "student handbooks" (personal progress books). Jayni, our president, will be the "Dean" and Valynn and I will be the "guidance counselors". Incoming beehives are the "freshman" etc. The girls have to declare a major (pick a value to completely finish this year), their 10-hour project is their "thesis". YW theme is our school "motto", Scripture Power is our school "fight song" and we are hoping to convince one of our advisors to dress up as a torch (our school mascot). We are even rounding up some of the parents to sing in our "alumni choir" complete with risers and robes. Anyway...it is taking ALOT of planning. We have about 16 girls...most of whom are really struggling... and our goal as a presidency this year it to raise the bar for the YW program.


So that brings me to our VERY SCARY photo shoot!! Can you guess who we are??

P.P.U.'s Homecoming Royalty...so scary!!

****ATTN TIFFANY Do you recognize your luscious mint green dream of a prom dress****

Jayni and Valynn came over the other night and we got "glamorous"...thrift store prom dresses except for the mint green one that belonged to my best friend from college Tiffany (that my girls us as a "princess" dress)..."dress-up" tiaras and jewelry, LOTS of blue eye shadow, bright red lipstick...pretty SCARY! Yes...we will be blowing this beauty up to have on display at New Beginnings. Tyler was our poor photographer!! Not only did we do still shots but we also shot two "live action" commercials. (We are also going to take some action shots of our bishopric as P.P.U's championship basketball team).

We are filming some of the girls who have completely finished a particular value and have them talk about their "major" and what they have learned from it and then throughout the video we will be breaking in with "mini-commercials" like..."and now a word from our Homecoming Royalty". We are doing one for the campus bookstore and the "pretty clothes" they have for sale (in which I am doing an "Elaine from Seinfeld" type dance) and one telling everyone to go and buy Homecoming Tickets and if you buy two you get a discount on teeth cleaning from Dr. Finn (a dentist and one of the dad's of our YW) See next photo!!

We WILL be rounding out the night on a spiritual note...we got an AWESOME speaker to talk to the girls about the importance of personal progress and the difference it can make in their lives and then Jayni and the Bishop will also speak. It's taking a lot of planning but I think it will be worth it.