Tuesday, September 24, 2013

October Newsletter is ready...

Look to the right and you will see a box called FORMS.  There you will find the newsletters.  I think I will print one for each youth to be given out on the 25th of September. These will be black and white. If you want color you will need to print the newsletter yourself.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Guest Speaker coming October 2nd.... for all Vanguard Youth to attend

 The Leadership/Government Inspirements for October are now posted at the blog site: http://vanguardyouthofprovoleadandgovern.blogspot.com/ 


Class will be held October 2nd.

 We have a guest speaker and would like all youth to attend. Mrs Openshaw will present from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. So those who normally do Apprentice level only will need to stay that day and take a longer lunch break or go ahead and do the Journeyman level this month.

Pam is the author of the book Promises of the Constitution which the youth are reading for Apprentice level and she is also  a story teller and reenacts the life of Betsy Ross.

Upcoming Activities Planned For The Youth Of Vanguard!!

Good Day To You!

 We want to hold more opportunities for our Vanguard youth to play and get to know each other and build new friendships with each other. So two activities are planned with more on the way.

1. Friday, September 27th: Meet at the Hutchings Museum in Lehi at 10:50 am. Bring a sack lunch with you. We will go on a self guided tour and have lunch afterwards at a local park. We'll end at 1:00 pmish.  Those in Provo can meet at Sister Allen's at 10 am, Those in the Orem area can meet at Sister Neil's at 10:15 am and others beyond can arrange for me to pick you up near an exit or come to the museum and arrange for your parent to pick you up afterwards....I might be able to get you home just make arrangements with me before hand. No little siblings...just the youth.

2. Friday, October 4th: Meet at Sister Ballentyne's at 10:00 am, bring a lunch and plenty of water as we are going to Cascade Springs. Come play together, bring some games, let's enjoy the afternoon together. This activity goes until about 2:00 pm.

If you have an activity that you want to host, talk to your parents, plan a date and bring your plan written on paper and share it with Sister Allen and we will get it scheduled.

Hope many of you can come. Please R.S.V.P. with a yes or no so we know everyone has read this message.  email Sister Allen your rsvp.

Thanks,

Your Vanguard Mentors

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Parents please mark your calendars

The monthly Parent Mentor Training will begin the first Friday in October. We ask as many parents to attend as is possible for your family situation. Meetings are held at Nickie Allen's home and begin at 7:30 pm sharp and will not run more than 1.5 hours.

I have some concerns to share and you may have concerns so write your concerns, praises, and ideas that might help so you too can be prepared for our meeting.  Prayers help too.

Babies may be brought but no children.

Thanks,

Nickie

Monday, September 16, 2013

This is a fun date night or go alone or with your older children on a date...Gove and I went last year. This year I might have to go alone...




UTAH VALLEY DATE NIGHT
CHANGE HABITS. CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
Applying the Science of Behavior Change in the Home


Join New York Times bestelling author and behavior change expert, Joseph Grenny, as he teaches a model for helping yourself, your spouse, and your children overcome bad behaviors and develop new healthy and harmonious habits.

DATE: Friday, September 20, 2013
TIME: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Provo City Library Grand Ball Room, 550 North University Ave., Provo, UT 84601
COST: $7.00 per person

 Click here to register. http://unitedwayuc.org/utah-valley-date-night

Each couple will receive a copy of the New York Times bestseller, Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success. All proceeds will benefit United Way of Utah County and its partners.
United Way of Utah County



VitalSmarts, a Provo-based training company, will host a Community Date Night Friday, September 20 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 per person. All proceeds will benefit United Way of Utah County and its partners. Click here to register. http://unitedwayuc.org/utah-valley-date-night
Change Habits, Change Your Life 
Bestselling author Joseph Grenny will teach a model from his national bestseller Change Anything to help you, your spouse, and your children overcome bad behaviors and develop new healthy and harmonious habits. Nurturing these good habits will strengthen families as well as the community.  
As always, thank you for your support. We hope to see you there.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Multi Vanguard Youth Family Trek Planned for May 2014...rsvp to Angie to save a spot for your family

This message is from Angie Moore:


 I have reserved May 22-24, 2014 for our Vanguard Family Trek.    Yeah!!!  This should be fun.  We can have a maximum of 500 people.  That is 50 carts, 10 people per cart.  Please feel free to let your Vanguard families know so that they can start reserving their spots.  Here are a couple of things to think about that might come up right at the start of planning this.  If you have ever done a family trek or even if you haven't, please share your ideas or concerns.

1.  Can a youth attend even if their parent/s can not?  Of the top of my head, I was thinking yes but the family would be in charge of asking another family who is going to be responsible for their youth.  As this is a family trek, I think we really need to encourage the whole family to attend.  I think that is what will really make this a special trek.  Youth going without family should be the exception not the rule.  Only Vanguard youth would be allowed to go without a parent.  Younger siblings would need at least one parent.  This is what we have stuck with for our back packing trips and it has worked well.

2. How many families to a cart?  I am assuming that for those who have large families, they will do one cart.  For those families where only one parent can go, we would double up families?  However, I guess for families where only dads could go, we could put those families together? Hmmmm.... actually for families that only moms or dads can go maybe we could add them to a smaller family since some families like my own will only maybe have 3-4 people so we could definitely add another mom and children or  another dad and children?  Let me know your thoughts.

That is all I can think of that might come up right now as families decide if they can go.  There is a handbook put out by the LDS church for treks, I will start reading it and then come up with a date to have the first planning meeting.  I think we should plan on 1 person or couple from each Vanguard group that is planning on participating to help start the planning.  We can get together and decide how we want the leadership to look and how we want to use the youth in helping to lead the trek.  This year our stake did a trek and it was completely youth led.  I would love to see the Vanguard youth really take the leadership on this, with the adults just shadow mentoring?   Thoughts on this?

Do you have any other questions that you think we better answer before we put it out to everyone?

Thanks,

Angie 


Hi once again,  I just wanted to make sure that I communicated correctly.  Now that the dates for the trek are reserved, if you plan on having your Vanguard group participate, please send out an email to your group letting them know of the dates and the location.  They will need to RSVP to rasberrysncream@hotmail.com (me) with the number of people planning on attending and with any questions that they have. We can have up to 500 people (50 carts with 10 people per cart) so there should be plenty of room for everyone who wants to go.   
 
Thanks!

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Upcoming book discussions...books youth will need.

In October, all youth will need to read Johnny Termain for Apprentice level History lens. 3rd week.

And the first Wednesday of October, all Journeyman youth will need to have read Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. I hope the youth can each have this little book as I think there is plenty of color coding to do here.








And in November all Leadership youth will need a copy of  The Young Traveler's Gift for Apprentice level.



Plus all Master level youth in Leadership in November will need a copy of  Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'amour.


Books do not have to be new. Used is fine.  We want to encourage our youth to write in their books, add notes, insights, bursts of inspiration. Do all you can my young friends to get your own copy of a book whenever it is possible.

Thanks,

Sister Allen

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

First Vanguard Day...

We just finished our first Vanguard.  It was a fun day.  Thanks for all your hard work.

We will work the kinks out.

1.We need to set some boundaries for the Allen's home.
     A.Please do not jump off anything, including the rock wall in the yard.
     B. Please do not be north of the house on the hill.
     C. Please do not cross the yellow bridge. No children in neighbors yards.
     D. If a parent wants to plan and assist across the bridge tour, that is the only way to cross the bridge.
     E. Food may be outside or in the kitchen only.
     F. We need to help with vacuuming, sweeping and mopping.
     G. We need to take all lunch trash to the trash.

To the Vanguard Youth
1. If you found it a bit hard today, Make your inspirements more exciting.
2. Please use your planning sheets you got from the Vision day.  If those planning pages are not for you bring the one you do use.

Thanks,

Sister Belinda Ballantyne

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Hot Dog!

We start our Vanguard youth group's first class in 13 hours!..Oh my, it's me who goes first!!!!

Looking forward to all 18 youth coming and shining their light upon me.