Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Youth devotionals — they can put the most patient of teachers over the edge. The forgetting, the faking, the false doctrine, the too-familiar gospel cliches all combine in a slow-moving train wreck that can make opening exercises in your class a miserable experience. Students forget or ignore assignments, and we teachers act like it’s okay to share spiritual things with no preparation or thought. I have experienced a fair amount…
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Youth devotionals — they can put the most patient of teachers over the edge. The forgetting, the faking, the false doctrine, the too-familiar gospel cliches all combine in a slow-moving train wreck that can make opening exercises in your class a miserable experience. Students forget or ignore assignments, and we teachers act like it’s okay to share spiritual things with no preparation or thought. I have experienced a fair amount…
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Hello, friends. It’s been a long time :). I’m sure you can appreciate why, what with three holidays in a month, plus new pages for all the 2013 stuff, plus 4 family birthdays, plus teaching Seminary, plus two funerals, plus trying to keep my marriage intact during the culmination of an eight month web site upgrade during the past 5 weeks — I’ve been busy. We have recently begun using…
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Hello, friends. It’s been a long time :). I’m sure you can appreciate why, what with three holidays in a month, plus new pages for all the 2013 stuff, plus 4 family birthdays, plus teaching Seminary, plus two funerals, plus trying to keep my marriage intact during the culmination of an eight month web site upgrade during the past 5 weeks — I’ve been busy. We have recently begun using…
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The coloring page goes with Matthew 28 and features two missionaries tracting. Color by number. Copyright 2010 Intellectual Reserve. Free to print and share for noncommercial use.
I created this stationery from items in the LDS Digital Scrapbooking section. It has lines with the flower corner border and text elements from the YW theme. It was created for use with the personal progress booklet so that young women to write their experiences, but it is generic enough to be used for class letters to missionaries or other notes. If you make something awesome with these elements, please…
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Clipart from the Primary Songbook of young man and young woman as missionaries. “I will stand as a witness of God at all times and in all things and in all places.”
This is a handout that discusses writing letters to missionaries. It is so you can fold it in half and then fold it somewhat like a letter with the picture facing out.
The following text comes from Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay. The questions were listed by President McKay to be used as a guideline for Bishops to determine worthiness and readiness of potential missionaries. I altered the questions to be in the first person for my lesson. Missionary Preparedness Questionnaire: Do I have sufficient will power to resist temptation? Have I kept myself clean and by…
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In September we have to present Sharing times on Missionary work. I have done something similar for FHE. For week one titled Week 1: The scriptures teach that the gospel will be preached in all the world. I thought it might be fun to give some examples of where missionaries serve and tell them we will be following some of them around the world today. 1. Make simple passports out…
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The following is a report I wrote after a Seminary inservice meeting where I attended a class on Asking Better Questions: I had the good fortune of being in Brother Baraclough’s class on Asking Better Questions. Watching him teach was at least as instructive as the material, if not more, and so I really enjoyed this. Improving the Set Up First Brother Baraclough demonstrated a common mistake teachers make (one…
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This is a familiar but underused teaching technique. When you invite students to role play, “The students’ job is to shore up their friend, and they almost always bear testimony in the process — almost without realizing it.” (Becoming a Great Gospel Teacher, Eaton and Beecher, p 91) “We’ve had our students play everything from missionaries to parents of troubled youth to concerned friends. The more realistic the situation, the…
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