Foyer Fireside: Mini-sode 3

In todays foyer fireside, Hannah and Lizzy chat about personal progress...and bribery. The sisters also make a bet you won't want to miss the deets on!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Am I about to read the Book of Mormon in a week?

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Maybe pray about I'll make you a cookie cake if you pray about the Book of Mormon.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Welcome to a foyer fireside, everyone.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

Hello. We are so excited to be doing a mini so today. I need to st I need to stop with the we're so excited to be.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Because we're not excited. No. We're actually dreading this.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

No, I am, but it just holds me back. I need to just be able to move on after you say welcome, and I just need to start talking.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

I'll say that's me and the the phrase no worries. Or absolutely. I do that all the time. Literally texted someone for work and no worries was the first two words of two separate text messages. Oh my gosh. Right after each other. It was horrible.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

Oh, that's funny.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

I went, of course, no worries. There are worries.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

There are worries.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

There are I'm worried.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

No, I am excited, but I just feel like it it hinders me. I need to just like I need you to say welcome. And I'm like, today we you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Anyway. I hope you guys enjoyed that. Yes. A little behind the scenes.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

A little behind the scenes.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Oh my goodness. Well for this firefire side, we were thinking that we would talk a bit about personal progress. Yes. Do you guys remember personal progress? They've changed it.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

I don't think it exists.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

You're right. I actually don't think it exists anymore. It's like a whole youth program now.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Yeah, or something.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Which is unfortunate because those medallions were gold.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

True.

SPEAKER_01 1:36

Not actually or silver. Oh not literally gold. But they were like cute. They were adorable. It was the thing you needed.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

That and your honor be.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

So for those of you who don't know, Personal Progress is a program that the church used to have for women, young women 12 to 18. It was basically just a booklet with um like tasks and challenges. So, like, you know, it would be like read these scriptures, write your thoughts.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

But it would be based on the young woman values, which at the time were um faith, divine nature, individual worth, knowledge, choice and accountability, good works, integrity, and virtue.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

So true. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

I remember when they added the and words.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Should we try?

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Okay, yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

I don't know how it starts.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father who loves us and we love him. As we strive as witnesses of God at all times and in all things and in all places, as we strive to live the young values, which are faith, divine nature, individual words, knowledge, choice and accountability, good works, integrity, and virtue. We believe as we come to accept and act upon these values, we will be prepared to strengthen Homan family, make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple. Receive the ordinances of the temple and enjoy the blessings of exaltation.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

Receive the ordinance of the temple and enjoy the blessings of exaltation. Alright, a little rusty.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

That was just pulled from like the death just the back of my mind.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

Anyway, and it had like tasks to do, and then they it also had 10-hour projects.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

But um it was kind of crazy, but it was like the thing that you did in Young Women's, right? They had like goals and they had treats and like um our ward was super into like embarrassing us, and so they made this really big P.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Letter P.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Like the letter P, and it was bright pink, and it said personal progress on it. And of course, it's the 2010s, and so it's like scrapbookie and mod podgy and whatnot. And uh they would set it outside of our house, and we had to do personal progress tasks while it was outside of our house for a week. And then afterwards, we gotta pick someone's house to do it at so that or like we gotta pick someone else's house and we would put it in front of their house, and then they would have the super big ugly pee in front of their house for a week.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Yeah, and basically when you finish personal progress, you got a medallion. And if you were lucky enough to have our young women's leaders, you would get a massive cookie cake. Indeed. Okay, let's to complete personal progress, you will need to attend sacrament meeting regularly, live the standards of the for strength of youth, complete the value experiences and value project for each of the eight values, keep a personal journal, attend seminary, read the Book of Mormon, and record your testimony of the savior. Okay, yes, so there were value experiences like talking to somebody. Which are small, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Like interview a grandmother.

SPEAKER_02 4:51

Yeah. And you had to have a parent or leader cross off that you had done it. Yeah. And then there were value projects. So for each value, you did experiences and projects. So for instance, like faith, your 10-hour project might be take a family history class. I don't know what that has to do with faith. Um, write an original story about faith. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

Anyway, it was a lot of work. It was a lot of work, and I'm gonna be so honest, there was no way I was ever gonna do it. There was no way. Yeah. But ask me, Lizzie, do I have my medallion? Do you have your medallion? I have my medallion. Me too. How? How did I get my medallion? I was bribed. Yeah, we were bribed. My parents straight up bribed me. Sorry. I know you're listening, but they straight up bribed me to do it. And I went, yeah, for some new clothes? Absolutely, I will do it.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

I don't remember what my my reward was, but yeah, I was also bribed. Here's the thing. I don't know how you feel about the bribe. Might be controversial. I support the bribe. Like I feel like as a parent, you kind of have to bribe your children to do things that they should be doing, you know, eat their vegetables, do their homework. And I feel like personal progress is a good thing. You know, so I'm I'm fine with the bribe.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

I'll say truly, I have no beef with the bribe. Yeah. I got I got, you know, stuff out of it. So and I got the necklace to say, look at me, I did it. I got the cookie cake. And I got the cookie cake.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

Um, we should make a cookie cake.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

We really should. It'll be one of our making episodes. That should be a video. Let's do it. We're making the pro personal progress cookie cake. Yes. Yes. Did she make them or did she buy them? She made them. We'll have to reach out to her not to have a recipe.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

You know, I hate to just be controversial on a mini sode here, but I do feel like one thing we have to talk about with personal progress.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

It's just only about homemaking. Like every single value project and value experience is like, how will this prepare you to be a wife and mother?

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Gotta be a better, you know, talk to your grandmother about being a mother. Talk to No 100%. And then like, then the boys got to like, I don't know, like Lauren had to like refinish a basketball court for his Eagle Scout project. And I'm like, so you gotta do something for the community. Yeah. I remember going out and painting fire hydrants for someone's Eagle Scout project when I was a kid. And I'm like, why couldn't I do that? I could paint fire hydrants.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Yeah, um, would not want to do an Eagle Scout project personally.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

I I kind of feel like we could do it better if we're being for real. We're being so for real. Did you read the whole Book of Mormon? I did. Me too. I did. So then when I got to the MTC, they said, Have you read the whole Book of Mormon? I was like, Yep. One time. I read it one time. And they said, That's all you need.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

But I think we started because our parents wanted us to do personal progress so bad, we would all start reading it together at night. Do you remember that? And I slept through a lot of it, so I don't know if you can count that.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

I vaguely remember that. I do remember at one point, like having broken it broken it down to like, if I read 94 pages a day, I could get it done in like a week.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Yeah, that's not a good way to go about it. I think I do.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

I would like to say I could easily read 94 pages in a day.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

In high school, you could have read 94 Book of Mormon pages a day?

SPEAKER_01 8:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

Not a chance.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Lizzie, I'm a speed reader. I read over 400 words a minute.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

There's just not a chance. I think. Oh, oh, Hannah. Oh my gosh. Am I about to challenge to challenge you to read the Book of Mormon?

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Hannah, please, I don't believe you.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Am I about to read the Book of Mormon in a wing just to pray about it? Am I about to do this? Maybe pray about it. Maybe as you read, you'll feel I'm absolutely done that this is a this isn't all the main episode.

unknown 8:54

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Uh when this mini sub goes out, I'm gonna start reading the Book of Mormon, and everyone can hold me accountable. I'm gonna finish it in a week.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

Okay, deal.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

One week. Lizzie, you have to do it with me. One week.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

I can't do it with you because. 94 pages a day. I'm at the beginning of Alma and I started in September. But I just read like a chapter a day.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

So it's a slow reader. I'm a fast reader. I'll say it. It'll probably be easier for me to read it within a week than it would for you because I'm not gonna be looking for the meaning. I'm reading it as a story right now.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

Yeah, but would you even read it as a story? I feel like you'd just be like, em kid.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

I would read it as a story. I can still comprehend what I am reading.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

The gauntlet has been thrown down. I've been slapped across the face. Guys, now I'm gonna have to do my personal progress all over again. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Where's the bribe? I'll make you a cookie cake if you pray about the book of love.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

Deal. You're not gonna like the outcome, but I'm gonna have a cookie cake. I actually think I have an untouched Book of Mormon up there. It'd be painted. Oh no, that's my mission one. Yeah. Cute. Did that for girls' camp one year.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

So cute.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

Riki, I was feeling very emo for Arizona. Aww. So it's a desert theme. Okay, I'm gonna have to post- I'm gonna have to post a picture of this Book of Mormon when this episode goes out. It's adorable! So that'll be the one that I'm reading in a week. This has been one long foyer fire side. This is one of those uh foyer moments where you're really pulling out your mom's leg for you to leave. True. You really want to go home.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

What a good way to be here.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

You have a cookie cake waiting for you. Uh alright, guys. Thanks for hanging out with us. Love you guys. We'll catch you in the foyer next time.