Young Men update (3-10-2015)

Hi everyone!

A quick update on YM.

-Wednesday activity: 

We have the ward activity--H.O.B. NOB that starts at 7:00. Food and fun. The boys should be there at 6:00 to help set up tables and chairs.

-Basketball: 

The season is over. I received an email tonight. Regions has started, so they cancelled our final scheduled game.

Thanks again for your support!

UPDATE ON TONIGHT'S ACTIVITIES

Andrew's call did not come today, so please plan to meet at the Church at 7:00. Thanks!

Young Men update (3-3-2015)

Hi everyone!

YM update.

-A big thanks to Ryan Pearmain (see attached picture) who shared his mission experience (Liberia, Ghana) with the YM last Wednesday! What an inspiration!

-Basketball: 

March 7: 10:00

March 14: 9:00

-We are excited to go to the Peterson's tomorrow and see Andrew open his mission call! 

Meet at their house at 7:00, and come with your guess about where he will serve and you might win a prize!

1187 Bateman Point Drive
West Jordan, Utah 84084

Thanks again for your support!

Young Men update (2-23-2015)

Hi everyone!

Just a quick update on YM.

1-Welcome to Brenden Douglas, our newest Priest! He is in the attached picture to the far right.

He is living with Dick and Jeanne, his grandparents.

His contact information is:

6916 Columbia Drive
West Jordan, Utah 84084

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385-222-4442

2-A special thanks to all the parents and leaders who helped with the Court of Honor last night! We saw many rank advancements and merit badges earned. Congratulations to all the boys that leveled up!

3-Basketball: I have attached the schedule for the remaining 3 Saturdays. 

Feb 28: 10:00

March 7: 10:00

March 14: 9:00

4-We are excited to hear from the recently returned Ryan Pearmain this Wednesday night at 7:00! He will share many of his mission experiences with the YM, and help us understand the cultures of the African people he lived with for two years.

Thanks again for your support!

Latest Young Men update

Hi everyone!

This Wed., we are meeting at the church at 5:10 to go sledding at Solider Hollow. Youth will be home around 9:15 or so. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR SON HAS A SIGNED RELEASE FORM TURNED IN. The link is below. Youth cannot participate if we do not have this form when we leave.

Also, next Sat. at 10:00 is a church basketball game, but it appears we may not be able to field a team. If your son can make it, please reply asap.

Thanks!

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Follow up on assignments

Everyone:

Hi!

I have set a standing meeting on our YM calendar (Google docs) for every 2nd Sunday from 4:00-5:00 p.m. to review YM and Scout related material. Let's plan to meet up at the church. We'll try to keep it to 45 minutes, but plan on an hour.

I need to get follow up from each of you on the following (these were in emails I sent out in December):

-Mentor an Eagle

We have young men that are VERY close to getting their Eagles. We need to put one leader with one boy to mentor the boys and their families and assist them through paperwork, etc. as they are on their road to Eagle.

        Ben::John

        Joe::Chad

        Caden::Bryce

        Jensen Wood::Matt Lingwall

        Alex::John to inquire as to interest

-High Adventure 2015

Bryce and Matt Lingwall will have a proposal for the YM leaders and bishopric to consider by 2nd week of January. Dates may be set (due to Matt's work schedule), but they will review at least 3 different locations and go through pros and cons of each. 

After this proposal, YM leaders and Bishopric will come together to decide on a location early so it can be reserved and communicated to the boys and their families.

Don: Please propose 4 dates for Courts of Honor this year and run them by Gary. When you two agree, forward the dates on to me to present up line.

Don: I would like to ask you to head up "Scouting for Food" this spring and "Friends of Scouting" this fall. More details forthcoming from Steve or his replacement.

Gary: Do we have plans for Scout camp this summer (location and dates)? Are we doing one? Please coordinate with Bryce and Matt as needed and make a proposal.

Gary: Do we have plans for campouts this year? Dates and locations? Let's finalize this in January as well.

Also, I'd like to propose we come up with plans for the merit badges we want to cover on Wed. nights with the boys, and then find individuals in the ward who can teach these merit badges. I'd like to get in front of this as well, and determine what "elective" merit badges the boys want to get (since most of the required are covered at pow wows and scout camps). Chad, can you own creating this list with input from the boys?

Young Men:

The list for the young men is located here (includes tabs for weekly teaching, a contact list, and a monthly calendar). 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WOIkxz82gDUIJsLBopjQZLmQcAuwQ41y6fLmvbobJ6g/edit#gid=15

John A., I would like to request you own this document and keep it updated monthly. We do need to update it now. 

Chad, can you go in and update your info and add Hunter's information in as well?

Bryce, in conjunction with the "elective" merit badge paragraph above, I'd like to propose that for those boys that are older and/or are Eagles we come up with a list of meaningful activities that we can participate in on Wed. evenings that will keep the interest of the young men (e.g., Lucas teaching us tennis, Braden A. teaching us about supercross/motorcycles, taking young men on field trips to offsite areas of employment where they have expressed interest or inviting people in to discuss with the boys what they do in their professions, etc.). Please take the lead in creating this inventory with the boys so we can create meaningful Wed. night activities that the boys will want to attend.

Young Men update

Hi everyone!

Our upcoming activities are listed below.

Also, please see the attached schedule for YM ward basketball. All games are scheduled for Saturdays, and the times vary. The majority of the young men said they were interested in participating, but note that we need to have at least one adult at the scorer's table (and ideally a coach as well). Can we support that, and also have youth involvement each week? If not, I would rather alert the stake we are bowing out now than have people show up and just get byes against us.

Let me know of your boy's interest, and we'll go from there.

Thanks!

Jan. 28: 

YM activity (See MEET THE MORMONS at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building downtown; meet at the church at 6:10 to head downtown; we will leave promptly at 6:20)

Feb. 4: 

Scout activity: TBD

YM activity: Braden Aguirre to discuss his experiences with supercross and motorcross (tentative)

Feb. 11: 

Sledding activity for combined YW and YM

Feb. 18: 

Scout activity: TBD

YM activity: Off-site activity/field trip to KSL