Video Script for Personal Progress

Quote: �The new (YW) handbook emphasizes the leaders� role to assist parents as they help young women grow spiritually. Parents, who have the primary responsibility for their children, can use Personal Progress to encourage private religious behaviors such as personal prayer and scripture study. Such behavior strengthens young women against the adversary and builds stronger family relationships. Using Personal Progress, a father, a mother, or both could help a daughter set goals, work on those goals, and then report back on the experiences she is having.�
�The Young Women General Presidency, Ensign, April 1999, p. 72.


(Scene opens in a living room, older girls is seated on the floor with photos & scrapbook stuff around her, younger sister comes in.)

Younger: �Hi, xxx, what are ya doing?�
Older: �I�m making a scrapbook on grandma. I�ve got some of her pictures, a copy of her birth certificate, marriage certificate and some stories that she wrote.�
Younger: �So why are you doing that?�
Older: �Well, it�s really fun to think about Grandma and what she was like when she was young. It also helps me accomplish one of my personal progress goals.�
Younger: �So what is �personal progress?� Is it hard?�
Older: �No, it�s not hard at all, it�s fun and it helps you to learn new things and to grow. It�s just about setting and achieving goals, it�s a part of every day life. It�s nothing to worry about, mom helps a lot with it.� (fade out)

(Scene in kitchen with mom baking and older daughter comes in)
Daughter: �Hi mom, do you have a few minutes? I need you to help me a little on personal progress �cause I�m going to have an interview with Sister xxx.�
Mom: �Sure, let�s sit down for a few minutes and look over it.�
Daugher:  "I�ve finished up my 1st year Mia Maid goals and now I need to set some new ones, but I�m not sure which ones to do.�
Mom: �Before we pick the goals, let�s first think about some things that you would personally like to accomplish this year � what�s important to you & what do you want to learn about or improve upon?�
Daughter: �Hmm, well, I know that I want to be better about practicing the piano and I would like to learn how to cook some new things and maybe do some missionary work with one of my friends from school.�
Mom: �Ok, that�s a great start, let�s write down some of your goals, I�d like to write some down for you too, some that I think you would enjoy doing, and I�ll even make a list of some things that I would like to accomplish this year also. We�ll both have goals to work on, ok?�
Daughter: �Sure, that�d be fun, mom!�
Mom: �Then we�ll read over the goals that are outlined in you book and find those that will fit in with what you already want to do, and maybe we�ll even come up with a few more ideas that we hadn�t thought of. If there is something that you really want to do and it�s not listed as a value goal, then we�ll write it in under the optional value experiences.�
Daughter: �Ok, great!� (fade out0

(Scene in den as mom is writing some checks, older daughter comes in)
Daughter: �Mom, while you�ve got your pen out, I need you to sign off on some of my personal progress goals.�
Mom: �Ok, great, I know you�ve got your goal about cooking done, that was fun making lasagna wasn�t it? What else have you finished up?�
Daughter: �Well the last 2 fast Sundays I�ve tried to make my fasting more meaningful and I wrote my feelings in my journal about how I felt better about fasting.�
Mom: �Oh that�s a wonderful thing to do�.� (fade out)

(Scene in living room with younger daughter, mom, dad, and young women leader)
YW leader: �Again, I just want to tell you how happy we are about you coming into Beehives and hope you�ll really enjoy getting started on your new personal progress book. How do you feel about that?�
Daughter: �Oh, it sounds really fun, I like to make goals and work on them. I can do that now on Sundays when sometimes I feel like there�s nothing to do.�
Leader: �And remember, your mom and dad and your whole family can be involved in helping you with your goals.�
Dad: �So dads can get involved too, huh? This sounds fun, I can�t wait to get started!�
(fade out)

Quote: �As you participate in Personal Progress, you join with thousands of other young women who are increasing their powerful influence for good. Learn to make the Young Women Values a part of your life. They are a guide that will help you to �come unto Christ� and will help you stand as a witness for Christ �at all times and in all things, and in all places.� Become acquainted with the importance of prayer and scripture study and living the commandments as you prepare to make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple, and ultimately enjoy the blessings of exaltation. Prayerfully consider the experiences and projects you select for Personal Progress. Choose those that will cause you to reach and stretch and develop your divine potential so that you will know of your infinite worth and your own divine mission as a righteous woman in God�s kingdom.
   --The Young Women General Presidency
From the Personal Progress Manual

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