Here are a few songs from LDS.org that go along with this year's theme. You may want to select one to practice with your YW during Opening Exercises. After a few months they could sing it as a special number in Sacrament Meeting! You can see some other songs listed on the right side of this page.




Arise, 2012 Mutual Theme Song
(you may need to be logged in to be able to download this)
A Light That's Pure, Dan Carter
Child of Light, Michele Sadler
I'll Follow Christ, Reed & Rebecca Hainsworth
Just One Little Light, Janice Kapp Perry
Light of the World, Stacie Ann Perkins
Walk in the Light, Janice Kapp Perry

Father's Day is coming. Are your YW doing anything special? I wondered about having the YW sing this song from Sally DeFord.

I Knew My Father Knew

I watched him with the eager eyes of childhood day by day
The way he lived said more to me than words could ever say
The simple truths he taught me would endure my whole life through
And long before I knew them for myself
I knew my father knew

I borrowed his unfailing faith; I trusted in his love
I counted on his courage when my own was not enough
I turned to him for counsel through the perils of my youth
And even when I doubted, still I knew,
I knew my father knew

I saw his quiet witness in the tears he could not hide
As he taught me of the Savior, how He lived and how He died
I felt the Holy Spirit, as he testified of truth
As I began to understand the things I knew my father knew

I have found my father's faith deep within my soul
A legacy I'll treasure through eternities untold
And everything I try to be, and everything I do
I do because I learned to know and love the things
I knew my father knew

Is there anything more beautiful than when the YW sing a special number in Sacrament Meeting? Hopefully you've noticed in the right-hand column of navigation on this page we have listed several songs that are from the New Era magazine. You can make free copies of them and they are approved for use in Sacrament Meeting.

Our YW are currently working on Guardians of Virtue, the song the choir sang in the 2011 General Young Women Meeting. We practice every Sunday (except the first Sunday when we meet with the Relief Society) during Opening Exercises.

Speaking of Opening Exercises, here is a conducting sheet that our class presidency uses each week. You are welcome to print them up and keep some in your YW room.

Let us know what some of your favorite musical numbers are for the Young Women. Do you use the YW Songbook? You can access some of the songs (sheet music & MP3) online here.