YW activity ideas?

I'm looking for some really great ideas to do with my YW...especially those kinds of activities to help deal with a couple girls with emotional problems. I have one really great YW and she has such a low self esteem and social problems. She reacts or takes things people say or do wrong and then her reactions just make the situation worse. I'm also having a little bit of a problem with my counselors being and staying truly involved in meetings and activities. They show up for some and not for others. This is a problem and makes the burden on me even more. Okay, just a bit of venting, but I really want to know if anyone has any ideas Christy

Christy, An idea for an activity: have a candlelight dinner at one of the leaders homes where each girl is to dress as formal as she can. Use nice place settings, real linens, and water goblets. While eating dinner have some uplifting contemporary LDS music playng in the background. After dinner, adjourn to a living room that has been filled with fresh flowers, preferabley a vase for each girl. If at all possible, have the leaders wearing their temple dresses. Then have each leader take 15-20 minutes each to discuss the importance of knowing who we are and where we came from. Another leader could talk about how when we develope a close personal relationship with our Father in Heaven that it shows in the way we carry ourselves. We become more like him and treat others accordinly. Then the closing speaker could talk about each girl individually praising her strenghs and expressing a real unconditional love for her. I don't know who wrote this but here is a poem that you could share. I am a child of royal birth My father is king of heaven and earth My spirit was born on courts of high A child of God, a Princess am I. hope this gives you some ideas. Tammy

Those are great ideas! I'm going to incorporate them somehow. Keep ideas coming. I'm coming to try my best to reach them. One of my young women has had a horrible life and even witnessed her mother's death from drug abuse and she now lives with grandparents. She has very poor coping skills and needs some real experiences to help her feel good about herself...not superficial ones. She was baptized last year. Two of the older girls and I went to visit her at her home during our meeting today. It went really well. She has a strong testimony and loves the gospel, but she doesn't have the skills to deal with her new feelings and knowledge and her old skills are just not working for her anymore. Both of these ideas are great....I'm going to approach the Bishop about them and I think we will have some joint activities....because a lot of the issues involve the youngmen too. Christy