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 (Alma 32:21).

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

-Personal Progress Manual

For Faith, we chose to focus on experiences 1 and 4

Experience 1:

"The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Learn about faith from the scriptures and living prophets. Read Hebrews 11; Alma 32:17-43; Ether 12:6-22;  and Joseph Smith-History 1:11-20. Read two general conference talks on faith. Exercise your own faith by establishing a habit of prayer in your life. Begin by regularly saying your morning and evening prayers. After three weeks of following this pattern, discuss with a parent of leader what you have learned about faith and how daily personal prayer has strengthened your faith. In your journal express your feelings about faith and prayer."

Experience 4:

"Learn more about the sacrament.  Read about the Last Supper in Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; and Luke 22: 17-20. Establish a pattern of pondering during the sacrament by listening carefully to the sacrament hymn and prayers. Think about why we partake of the bread and water. After three weeks of following this pattern, write in your journal some of the promises you make as you partake of the sacrament and remember your baptismal covenants and what you do to keep those promises. Record in your journal how your understanding of these promises has strengthened your faith in the Savior."

When it says to share with a leader or parent, we encourage you to share your experiences with a member of the presidency, but feel free to share it with a roommate or close friend!

We'll be posting reminders on Facebook but don't feel like you need to go at our pace and follow our schedule! At the end of the month we'll do something....not yet decided to wrap up faith.

Personal Progress

Heyyyy! So I'm mostly starting this in order to help us keep track of this new project we're doing. As most of you know, Personal Progress is a program done for the Young Women of the Church to help them get through their teenage years with good values. As a presidency, we decided that it would be a good idea to do a condensed version of Personal Progress as a Relief Society.

We're going to pick out 2 experiences each month to do. The first month will be Faith, next will be Divine Nature, and we'll work our way down until we get to Virtue! For those who weren't able to participate in Personal Progress as Young Women, here's how it works:

There are 8 values: Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity, and Virtue. 

For each value, you have to complete 6 experiences and a ten hour project. 

Here is a link to the online Personal Progress:

https://www.lds.org/young-women/personal-progress?lang=eng

As a Relief Society, we'll only be doing 2, maybe 3 experiences from each value. However, we encourage any of you who want to do it completely to do so! If you ever want help with a project, just let us know and we can do something individually to help, or even as a Relief Society!

Love,

Your Relief Society Presidency!