Youth Conference

 I'm the Stake Young Women Secretary, so I got to be involved in planning the youth conference this year. It was a pretty cool event, and lots of miracles happened to make it all come together. The theme was Look Unto Christ Around the World.

Brother Mooney donated a TON of snacks for the kids to eat in the "VIP airplane lounge."

Sister Simkins created a super cool passport for all the places the kids would visit during the youth conference.

And I made stickers of Jesus in various colors to add to the passports after they visited each class.

Friday night we kicked things off with a Luau. It is so awesome to work with these ladies in this calling. They're wonderful. Beth Hills, Kenia Simkins, Julie Bytheway, and me.

We started off the Youth Conference on Friday night with a Luau and some awesome Fire-Knife dancers.

Saturday as the kids arrived they got a boarding pass with all the destinations they would be visiting that day. The stake center was turned into an airport, and 6 rooms (or 5, plus the lawn) were turned into different countries that the kids visited and learned about differences in culture and how people living there look to Christ.

Taiwan:

Saudi Arabia:

Fiji:

Lunch was Italian.

Everyone seemed to really enjoy learning about different cultures and the classes were really cool. 

We wrapped up the evening with a HUGE regional concert that our YM president managed to convince the Church performing artists, Strive to Be, to come perform at. It was a huge undertaking, and the first of its kind, and we ended up with 2000 people from southern Arizona in attendance.

We wrapped up the conference on Sunday with a fireside. All in all, a great youth conference and the purpose of coming together to feel a sense of belonging and come closer to Christ was definitely accomplished.