Personal Progress

You are a young woman growing toward womanhood, and the Personal Progress program helps you reach your full potential by inviting you to learn basic gospel principles through study and action. As you work on Personal Progress, you will strengthen your home and family, develop leadership skills as you work with others, and be prepared to make and keep sacred temple covenants. In this section you’ll find examples and principles to keep in mind as you carry out your own experiences and projects related to the Young Women values.

“Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me a young woman who faithfully attends her Church meetings, who is a seminary graduate, who has earned her Young Womanhood Recognition award and wears it with pride! Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.”

President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994), “To the Young Women of the Church,” Ensign, Nov. 1986, 84.

Photographs by David Stoker and Craig Dimond; painting by Heinrich Hofmann, courtesy C. Harrison Conroy Co. Inc.

Photographs by David Stoker and Craig Dimond and courtesy of Jalaire Musgrave

Photographs by Sarah Jensen, Jed A. Clark, Robert Casey, Steve Bunderson, and Church Media Services

Photographs by David Stoker, Nicole Tucker, Garth Bruner, and Matt Reier

• Faith: Turning to Christ

  Anna Evans

• Divine Nature: True Royalty

  Jalaire Musgrave

• Individual Worth: Am I a Child of God?

  Valarie Schenk

• Knowledge: A Challenging but Meaningful Read

  Lynette Randall

• Choice and Accountability: 195 Dresses

  Charity Fuller

• Good Works: A Vision of Service

  Nicole Tucker

• Integrity: Changing My Tune

  Kimberly Udall

• Virtue: Driven by the Spirit

  Elise Bowen