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This was my forth year at girls camp and I loved it every year.
The spirit is so strong with our youth and especially with our young women.
This year our theme was “It’s a jungle out there”. We used the Jungle Book movie for our class topics and for our devotionals.
The bear necessities were of course the scriptures, and prayer and holding to the spirit to guide us. That is just one example.
We had DEAR time, drop everything and read.
We were in cabins and the cabin names were animals from the jungle.
Our girls chose chameleons, in our devotional we talked about their basic survival skills but talked about how if you have Christ in your heart and life you can’t blend in and that you will need to act as a beacon for others as well.
We had a lot of fun with the theme and the decorations but my favorite part was the opportunity to bare our testimony of the love that Jesus and our Father in Heaven have for them.
This year was the first year we camped as wards instead of by year and EVERYONE agreed that there was less drama (none) and more opportunities
to help the girls individually.
What I would like to do next year is work more on jump starting personal progress. Having small projects for personal progress during structured time as well as an option for free time too. This could go with any theme and give them something to work on for the rest of the year. The projects could be fun and show the girls that Personal Progress is work and fun.
All the values are designed to help them Come Unto Christ and so will go with all the goals you are working on at camp too.
I would suggest along with being in cabins as wards more activities where they are divided by age, like personal progress.
I had a great time at camp and can’t wait till next year. -
Many thanks Jenny! I am so happy for finding your webpage, a place to share and learn too!
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Primary teachers stay with their children during both hours of Primary so they can watch the children during Sharing Time. This is church-wide. Many small children need their teachers to help them learn to be reverent during Sharing and Music Time, and so their teachers are asked to stay with them instead of leaving to attend a different class.
If you’re being asked to stay after the closing prayer (when the parents are supposed to pick up the children), that’s likely a local requirement, probably for the children’s safety. If you’re being kept after class for a long time waiting for children’s parents, you may want to speak with the Primary President and express your concern.
I missed Relief Society when I was in Primary, too. The good thing about the Church is that you probably won’t stay in Primary forever. But don’t worry, you will be able to participate in Relief Society while you serve in the Primary. You still have the opportunity to attend your Relief Society meetings held at least quarterly, and you will still serve as a visiting teacher even when you serve in Primary or Young Women.
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Here’s a link to visual aids I used for primary!
http://chocolateonmycranium.blogspot.com/2008/01/brother-of-jared-sees-jesus.html
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I love the music you chose for your viedo clip (your girls are darling!)
Could you tell me the name of the artist and song, and where I could get a copy of the sheet music. -
Hi! I am a relatively new convert (8 months this July 21!!!) and a CTR teacher. I love my calling but I missed a lot going to the RS meetings that I used to go before my calling. Anyway I do my best to attend to all activities that are scheduled on week days if they are not on working hours.
Do someone know why primary teachers should not attend RS and must stay all the time with the children – before and after the class? Is that a formal primary guideline at the Church?
For me sometimes is confusing, I live in Southamerica and talking to a friend in USA that is also a member (long time member) sometimes I find that things are done differently maybe because Church is new in the town where I live.
I would appreciate if someone could help me to know about the RS attendance for primary teachers.
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Could you please send me a copy of this program! Thanks
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I would love to get a copy of this program! Thanks
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Chances are, there are several other women in Relief Society who feel exactly that same way. Start with one person a week. Get to know someone else that may be feeling the same way, and then the two of you can challenge each other each week to meet one new person or to get to know someone who has been there for a while. A lot of times our own inhibitions get in the way of others approaching us, because we come off unapproachable. We all need to get over ourselves, and know that not one person in that room is better than us, nor are we better than them. 2 things that might help also. Remember what they think of you has nothing to do with your salvation, but what you think of them has everything to do with your own salvation. Also, we all tend to compare ourselves with other people’s best qualities against our weakest qualities. That is not being fair to yourself or others. Quit comparing yourself to anyone else and only worry about what your Heavenly Father thinks. He is the only one that really matters when it comes to being good enough.
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Charity never failith. I was in RS off and on during times I had no calling that put me in other places or primary(awsome place to be). and I felt very out of place. But I found that when you are in the service of your fellow man you are in the service of you Father in Heaven stands to be very true. RS seems to always have a sign up sheet for some need that is going on and I would sigh up for most of them. I didn’t have to do anything but show up and let them tell me where they needed me most. COMMUNICATION was the key for me to know that I was needed and let me do what I do best and that is to activly help others with out feeling nobody cared if I was there or not. If it is still hard for you to be in RS, just pop over to the primary and ask what you can help with and you will be suprised how greatful they are to have a helping hand.
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That is a fantastic story which brought a tear to my as I had the same weakness but its so true what your sister said (not that its a good thing to smell smoke when your at church) It is a sign of someone trying or they wouldn’t be there in the first place!!
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I’ve had that feeling of not feeling right at home because I didn’t know anyone in my new ward. I had just moved into the area and actually had been inactive in church. I decided that I wanted to start attending church with my family (actually my 8yr old son decided!) and so we went that Sunday. My father who had been in the area contacted one of the members for us to let us know what time church had started and we had arrived early! I was sitting in Relief Society and other sisters started arriving and I was smiled upon, but that was all. I got looks from the sisters just wanting to say hi but no one approached me, not even the presidency, it just happened to be fast Sunday and after the announcements I just felt so invisible because they’re wasn’t even a welcome to the sisters new and old to relief society! After the lesson however there was a little testimony minute and no-one wanted to get up. Waiting in silence I felt the Holy Ghost urging me to get up, as scared as I was in front of all these strangers the spirit was pushing and pushing I had to get up, I thought my heart was going to pump out of my chest. I got up and bore my testimony and introduced myself and I balled my eyes out, I felt so much better, the RS president got up and apologized for not welcoming me and bore her testimony as well. I make it my duty to introduce myself to every new face I see, whether they know anyone or not. Its upto ourselves to make that first step to making a new or old sister feel welcome in Relief Society!!!
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I have walked in those shoes. It didn’t matter to me whether I went to homemaking or not because I didn’t feel like I fit in. I would always sit alone, the relief society would speak to me but very few others. So I felt isolated. Then through a lesson, I think, I realized that I couldn’t control other’s, only myself, and that I could reach out to others which I did. That’s when things turned around. I cannot change other people but I can extend my hand of friendship. That’s what I found that works. When all else fails, excuse the pun, kill them with kindness…
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I am a young woman who is not married and who has no children who dreads going to Relief Society! I always think about skipping out after Sunday School to avoid going because I feel so out of place from all the women who I think are so different than I am with their families and their husbands. A lot of their comments about their family life make me feel funny because I feel so out of their circle! The Bishopric extended me a calling in primary and I was so relieved! It feels wonderful not having to go to Relief Society and having to face the women of the ward! However, these women are my sisters and I know that I won’t be able to hide in primary forever! I need to pray to God to help me overcome my own feelings of inadequacy and perhaps extend myself a bit more. Most of the women are friendly enough and a lot of the older ones have sat by me.(When I was there). Sometimes we shouldn’t expect everything to be on the other person, as in saying hello..etec…..We need to work at things by being open and friendly and knowing the the Lord has a time and a place for all of his daughters to have a family and so on.
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we should stop focusing on our selves, and try to sit by someone new each sunday and try to get to know someone and make them feel welcome
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