"Now is the time to prepare for the wonderful future that awaits you. Personal Progress will help you prepare and will help you understand your identity as a daughter of God.
Personal Progress is not a program that is separate and apart from your life. It is a tool that you can use to draw closer to the Savior, serve others, be anxiously engaged in good works, learn leadership skills, develop relationships with others, and prepare for temple covenants. Personal Progress helps each young woman who participates develop daily righteous routines. When you do small things consistently, they become part of who you are and they change you. It really is “by small and simple things” that “great things [are] brought to pass” (Alma 37:6)."
The information on the blog has been adapted from a YW Value Project done by Eliza Wells of Sandy Utah. She spent a tremendous amount of time putting a program together that could be completed in 12 weeks. It was geared toward YW who were nearing the end of their YW careers and still needed to complete the program.
We do not to do the program quite as fast, so we are gearing it toward 12 months. The information on this blog is for the Panama City Beach Ward, in Panama City Beach, Florida. Starting in January 2016.
However, we can that Eliza for how she understood how to group the experiences, avoid duplicate work and organize efforts for the highest probable outcome.
Her original program can be found at: http://personalprogress12weeks.weebly.com/
Here is her explanation on her reasoning behind putting this project together:
I completed Personal Progress as a Beehive and again as a Mia Maid. As I did so, I noticed that many of the activities and scriptures were very similar, and some of the girls in my ward were looking at Personal Progress as a huge challenge and burden rather than an achievable goal. I created the program to make Personal Progress seem more doable, because I really do believe that it has many benefits, and when it is simplified and organized you can get to the heart of the program.
