The following Young Women programs and activities can assist leaders as they strive to help each young woman stay active in and become converted to the Church:

• Mutual and Other Activities
  
  Mutual and other youth activities provide excellent opportunities to involve all youth and assure that each has a friend, a responsibility, and the opportunity to have her faith strengthened.
  
  

• Sunday Lessons
  
  Sunday Young Women meetings are an excellent place for young women to feel the spirit of the Holy Ghost and learn of Christ and His gospel. Young women should be encouraged to reach out in friendship and kindness to all who attend.
  
  

• Personal Progress
  
  The Personal Progress program helps a girl strengthen her testimony of Jesus Christ and His gospel. It provides an excellent opportunity to bring together missionaries, ward and branch leaders, and family members to help less-active young women and those who are investigating the Church.
  
  

• Class Presidencies
  
  Class presidencies can assist in activating and retaining youth as they fulfill their responsibility to "care for each class member" ("Young Women," section 4 of the Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 2: Priesthood and Auxiliary Leaders [1998], 218).
  

• Transitioning into Womanhood
  
  As young women move to Relief Society, Young Women leaders can assist them in making the transition to being fully active adults.

Video Resources

• "When You Save a Girl, You Save Generations" - Quotation from President Gordon B. Hinckley from the January 2004 Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting discussing the value of faithful young women to future generations (running time, 1:05).
  
  
• "Sugar Beets and the Worth of a Soul" - President Thomas S. Monson gives counsel to Young Women leaders about the value of each young woman in the Lord's kingdom (running time, 8:05).
  
  
• "The Fernando Araujo Story"

Example of retention and the impact a dedicated auxiliary leader can have on inactive youth (running time, 3:19). Given by Elder Mervyn B. Arnold in the April 2004 general conference. See " 'Strengthen Thy Brethren,' " Ensign, May 2004, 46–48.