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PHOENIX — A brand new app may help young women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints complete Personal Progress.

In 2013, Kristin Call launched the Personal Progress Binder, “a set of worksheets that breaks down the entire Personal Progress program into manageable chunks,” she said.

According to the Personal Progress manual, “Young Women Personal Progress is an achievement program designed to help young women: strengthen their testimonies of Jesus Christ, strengthen both their present and future families, prepare to be worthy to make and keep sacred temple covenants, prepare for their future roles and responsibilities.

“Young women work with their parents, Young Women leaders, and other exemplary women to set and accomplish goals based on the eight Young Women values. Personal Progress can help parents and leaders improve their relationship with young women as they work together.”

Wednesday, young women were able to download the brand new Personal Progress Binder app, which was developed by Call’s brother-in-law, Scott Daly.

The app breaks down each value experience into worksheets. Young women using it can tap on a scripture reference and be directed to the Gospel Library app, where they can read the scripture and then return to the Personal Progress Binder app, where they will fill out answers to questions, Call said.

Young women can also set notifications on their phones to remind them to do longer value experiences, for example, saying their prayers morning and night. They can then check that goal off and keep track of their progress. The app also includes a Book of Mormon reading chart, Call said.

“There’s functionality inside it,” she said. “A lot of the experiences require you to discuss things with your parent or leader, and so right from the app, you can select ‘contact my parent,’ and you can message your parent or leader and there’s a pre-populated text message that comes out that says, ‘I’ve been working on Choice and Accountability 5, and I’d love to talk to you about it.’ ”

I wish I had had an app back in the day to help me track my progress as I masturbated my way through high school and that first year of college. I coulda been a contender.

I'm sorry, but the personal progress goals were all things these girls do everyday (unless maybe read the bofm or something), but I had 23 girls in Beehives. I'd talk to them and we'd go down the list of goals they had listed and I asked them, "Do you ever help fix dinner?" Yes. I'd check it off. Do you ever babysit your younger siblings? Yes. I'd check it off. These kids have enough to do without getting homework from church.

I thought the church was dumping this program because they had announced a new ym/yw program.

Or did I get it wrong?

Computerized brain washing.

Are they storing the data in the cloud for use with the next interview?