Cat - Old & New

I've been sorting through piles of papers and things over the last few weeks and found some things I wanted to share.

Cat wrote journal entries and kept handouts from Activity Days
in this little composition notebook.

The inside of the notebook -

I was touched to see how much thought and effort went into the pot Cat
decorated for me for Mother's Day last year.

Unfortunately, the flowers didn't survive, but I was able to
replace them with the flowers Eliza gave me for Mother's Day.

One of Cat's main responsibilities on the yearbook staff in 6th grade was to provide character drawings to be used in the yearbook.  I mentioned this in a blog post at the beginning of the summer HERE but since I found some original drawings I wanted to share them too.

Cat wrote the following talk on the Young Women Logo for New Beginnings last Sunday. I thought she did a great job and I only made a small suggestion, which she implemented.

President Ezra Taft Benson said, ‘What hopes I have for you young sisters! What hopes our Father in Heaven has for you! You have been born at this time for a sacred and glorious purpose. It is not by chance that you have been reserved to come to earth in this last dispensation of the fulness of times. Your birth at this particular time was foreordained in the eternities. You are to be the royal daughters of the Lord in the last days. You are “youth of the noble birthright” (Hymns, 1985, no. 255).’

On a necklace that you will recieve when you turn 12, is the young women logo. This logo is a torch that is surrounded by the young women motto. The torch represents the light of Christ inviting all to come unto Christ. As President Ezra Taft Benson said, ‘What high hopes our Heavenly Father has for you!’ The torch invites all young women to hold up their light by being an example, and being worthy to make and keep the sacred covenants in the temple. The torch on the necklace symbolizes these things, and it’s a small nice reminder for us of the hopes our Heavenly Father has for us.

“Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations” (Doctrine & Covenants 115:5). The torch is on a necklace so that it can be with us always, or at least often. Let this necklace be a reminder to you to always do your best to be an example. I bear my testimony that Heavenly Father loves all of us and wants us to do our best in life, so he sent us reminders, helpers, examples and friends to help us out. And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

I was able to accompany Cat and some of the other YW on an
early temple trip this morning.  I love this girl.