MM activity, "Make it to the Temple", Provo-that is!

Well, we did it, even though some of us at times will go in "circles" in life or make wrong turns, or keep following the same destructive road, we do have our Savior and Heavenly Father to guide us and help us get back on the right path to him! I love you my mia maids, and as Sis Allen advised us, stay close to the Lord and choose friends wisely that our courageous in standing for the right, and date guys who will keep us on the right path to a happy life, eternal life and a temple marriage.

Thanks girls for participating and for Sis Allen who did a great job.

Welcome Kayla to MM!

Girls Camp 2009 SERVIVOR!

I loved being at Servivor with all of you. I am so happy I could come up to camp and hang with some of my favorite sisters! Thanks for welcoming me and for allowing me to laugh and share my love for all of you. All you girls are so special to me and you all have such beautiful testimonies. WOW! What an Awesome ward we have.

Mags- You make a cute Dory, and Oh, you make a cute Dory! HA!
Jadey- don't evacuate plssss.
Gentry- my KeAloha, and what is my name pls? "Lakia Awaki"
Emma- girl you marry a Samoan or a dark man with big lips!
Bailey- what can I say, girl you rock, thanks for driving up with us...old man in china and in the super market holding french bread! HA! The deer staring at us.
Shelby- all the dead deer on the side of the road? What? Thanks for wanting to get to know me better, and for letting me talk your ear off, and for keeping me awake!
Aub- my aubey! ;)
Regan- CHOKER! I hope you are feeling better!
Cass- pls wash your troll hair!
Morgan- prize for the highest pony tail
Jess- thanks for filling me in...songs, and Awesome Bro. Isle with the Mr. Poppins bag.


And to all my mia maids- love you and thanks for being you!
I want to see some pics.

Love ya's!

Sis Gray

We will servive! To the stake leaders, loved the afro's and the skit!

MM Combined YW Activity

Great Job Sis Osmond on the lesson and the fun aerobics work out! That was so much fun. Thank you girls for the treats and for helping set up and clean up. You all were so cute working out and playing volleyball. Nice job to all the YW for participating.

Personal Progress- Physical Fitness and Health

Mia Maid Scripture 2009

Mosiah 2:17

" 17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

"let us be in service of our fellow young women!"

Challenge- serve someone this week, in your family or your friends and write it in your journals.

I love you mia maids, and I am so proud of you.

Welcome to our newest mia maids, Regan and Mckensie! We want you to feel welcomed and comfortable in class. ;)

Virtue is GOLDEN! Commit to a virtuous life!

Personal Progress evening on the new value "Virtue!" Shine like a beautiful STAR!

class Review GAME

If you can remember our last 3 class lessons, you win! Just email me or FB with a descriptive message on each lesson and I will give you a prize, the first 3 responses will get a better chance at winning, and for extra points if you lmk how the lessons affected your life I would love to hear about it. ;)
Thanks for playing!

lorianngray@gmail.com

Good Things Utah class activity

Thank you Mia Maids and Sis Asplund for coming with me on my birthday to GTU, and for being on TV with me too, I had a great time! ;)
Welcome Aubrey to MM and hope you had a great "Happy Birthday!" ;)

Watch News at 5 with Maggie Asplund and the weather with Anna Isle!

GTU, Monday March 9 activity idea

"Good Things Utah"

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=e4efa39275&view=att&th=11fae4f51f457555&attid=0.1&disp=vah&zw

*look here for any other questions, thanks.

I think this would be a fun activity, to see how things are done behind the scenes for a talk show here in SLC.

Scripture Scavenger Hunt

Mahalo! Thank you for all who participated and helped plan this activity. I had a fun time planning it and seeing you all at the mall with all the leaders and those who helped from the ward. Thanks to Sis Hartman, Bro. Asplund, Jeff and Kimberlyn Allen, and Amber Huish, who helped in the mall and with the girls. And of course all our wonderful leaders, Sis Oldham, Sis Asplund, Shelby Osmond, Kathy Hall, and Joy V. for dressing up and leading groups. And to all our Awesome young women thanks for coming and being a part of tonight. Hope you all had fun! Pics to follow soon...;)
Love you,
Sis Gray

Cover of a magazine!

Thanks for participating in my lesson on Sun, you all did a beautiul job with your "cover" of a magazines. I would purchase them instantly! ;)
How would you represent yourself in a magazine? Live as if someone was reading you from cover to cover...
What is our role here on earth? have a good attitude about it and you will be happy!

Love ya,
Sis Gray



Lesson 8 " Our Divine Roles"

President Spencer W. Kimball has given us this encouragement:

“To be a righteous woman is a glorious thing in any age. To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling. The righteous woman’s strength and influence today can be tenfold what it might be in more tranquil times. She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home—which is society’s basic and most noble institution” (Ensign, Nov. 1978, p. 103).

President Spencer W. Kimball said:

“Young women should plan and prepare for marriage and the bearing and rearing of children. It is your divine right and the avenue to the greatest and most supreme happiness” (“Privileges and Responsibilities of Sisters,” Ensign, Nov. 1978, p. 103).

President David O. McKay said: “Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by [a woman]” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1942, pp. 12–13).

President Spencer W. Kimball explained that “we made vows, solemn vows, in the heavens before we came to this mortal life.

“We have made covenants. We made them before we accepted our position here on the earth. …

“We committed ourselves to our Heavenly Father, that if He would send us to the earth and give us bodies and give to us the priceless opportunities that earth life afforded, we would keep our lives clean and would marry in the holy temple and would rear a family and teach them righteousness. This was a solemn oath, a solemn promise” (“Be Ye Therefore Perfect,” address given at the Salt Lake Institute of Religion, 10 Jan. 1975, p. 2).

Draper Temple with my family, Jan 2009

My family and I got the chance to go yesterday to the open house of the new temple in Draper, Utah. It was a beautiful experience to walk through with my husband Tommy and especially my daughters Naomi and Leilani. Naomi was so excited to go to the temple. She had a big smile the whole time through the temple. She especially loved the "diamond lights" (chandeliers).

I aksed Naomi what she thought of the temple and she said, " it wasn't that perfect"! HAHAHAHAHA!

After I told her it is the "house of the Lord and (Jesus)", she did ask me later, where is Jesus?

I guess because it hasn't been dedicated yet, its not yet perfect! ;)

Draper Temple Open House Feb 2009 combined mutual

Mia Maids this is a wonderful chance to walk through and be a part of an open house for a temple nearby. Would you all be interested in going for one of our activities?
YES! We are having a combined activity in February for the Draper open house.

Thanks for coming to the Stake Activity tonight, it is going to be a fun year and a united time with our sister wards and each other! ;)

Your choices will outline your future! "Never give up for what you want most for what you want NOW!

Decisions determine Destiny!

Congrats Kara Lynn on finishing your personal progress! ;)
Thanks for coming to the Draper temple, what a beautiful experience, even the bus rides.

Combined YW Activity Jan 2009

make your own "Mormonads" activity!
Starring...all the YW, pictured here-
Maggie, Kara, Hannah, McKensie, Kelly, Sis Gray and Leilani and Leah!

new YW Value Virtue!

Virtue is the new YW value, here are some words from the first YW Presidency...

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/56295/New-Young-Women-Value-Virtue.html

Like the gold Peruvian shawl the Young Women presidency unfurled at the top of Ensign Peak, the value of Virtue will be represented by gold — a precious metal that has long been known as a symbol of purity, said Sister Dalton. "When gold is refined, it is pure," she said.

"If you are virtuous, you are strong," added Sister Cook. "It is power and it is strength. It is all derived by being pure."

Sister Dibb noted that virtue is "what's a part of you that no one else will know. But you know and the Lord knows."

Sister Dalton compared gaining virtue to training for a marathon. "Virtue isn't something that you have instantly," she said. "It is strict training. It is the daily, deliberate practice of small things."

http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17802,8449,00.html

Jump on it, Wed Jan 7, 630pm

Pres meeting at my home also Wed Jan 7, 6pm, thank you. Bring your folder.

"Jump on it" activity, bring signed consent form, check your email for the form.
Thank you. See you then.

Sis Gray