Highland 9th Ward Young Women: Youth Conference

Youth Conference - Aspen Grove

January 2014

Bishop Coulter wanted our Youth Conference to build unity within our youth. He wanted the youth to have each other's back, to take care of each other and to realize we are all one family. With this admonition we chose the theme "Same Team, Different Jersey." We based our conference on a Mormon Message titled "Same Team."

The video is about two young men who are friends off the field, but rival quarterbacks on the field. On Friday night is the big rival game, the next day Teren is set to baptize Brandon. The video used a quote by President Uchtdorf taken from a talk he gave at Priesthood Session.

And so it begins...

On Friday all the youth 14 and up drove to Aspen Grove. They each received a backpack with a YC booklet, water bottle, snacks, pompom and roommate assignments.

Youth Conference Booklet

The booklet contained the weekend schedule, motivational quotes about team work, note pages for each speaker, teams and memory pages.

YC Booklet Cover

Photo Booth
One of the most popular things we had was a Photo Booth. We used a football theme background and had lots of props for the youth to use.

Zac - our photographer

Josh - testing our photo booth

"Hall of Fame"

We printed out the photos and hung them on our "Hall of Fame" wall. At the end of the Conference the youth were able to take home the photos and add them to their memory pages in their YC Booklet.

MVP Board

We also had a MVP Board. This was a board we hoped to fill up with all the nice things everyone was doing at Youth Conference. If you noticed someone being kind, doing something nice or going our of their way for someone else, their name was written on a pennant and placed on the MVP Board. It was fun to see how fast the board got filled up.

Speakers

DaNae Peterson

I spoke on the theme of Youth Conference "Same Team, Different Jersey"

Jason Lindsey

Jason spoke on Social Media and how to use it safely.

Alliy Sahagun

Alliy spoke on Dress and Appearance

Jeffrey Louiza

Jeffrey spoke on Friends

Isaac Neilson

Isaac is a BYU Basketball player and he spoke on Self Esteem

Bishop Coulter

Bishop was our concluding speaker and showed a video about Derek Redmond, an Olympian who pulled his ham string during the 1992 Olympics, but never gave up and made it to the finish line.

Teams

On Saturday morning the 12 and 13 year olds joined us for the rest of our conference. We divided everyone into teams and they were given a dog tag with their name and made in the color of their team.

We had five teams and they stayed together the whole time we were at Youth Conference. They sat together, ate together and played games together.

Activities

We watched the movie "Miracle," played lots of Minute to Win it Games, hung out at the Game Center (pool tables, air hockey, ping pong - this was a big hit). Some found a little snow even though they had to hike to find it.