Tag Archive: attendance

National “Back to Church” Sunday

I happened to stumble on a link to this site:http://backtochurch.com/resources/statistics/ while researching a topic for the girls’ camp devotional I helped with this week. What an interesting read! The site, http//BackToChurch.com/ is promoting a Christian “Back to Church” Sunday. It lists a number of extremely interesting statistics from a variety of sources regarding church activity. I’ll share a few they mentioned below: 82% of the unchurched are at least somewhat…
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From Rock Star to Worker Bee – The New Member Dilemma

You’ve been investigating the LDS Church, and you’re flying high! The missionaries are awesome — they’ve been helping around the house and sharing spiritual thoughts with you a couple of times a week — and you love and admire them! You’ve read the Book of Mormon and felt the Spirit witness of the truthfulness of its teachings, and you decided to get baptized. What a great week that was! You…
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There is safety in following the prophet

Primary Talks

Prophets are sent to protect and guide the children of Heavenly Father. There has always been safety in following the prophet. In the days of Joseph Smith, many learned this important truth. On April 6, 1830, the day The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was formally organized, at least 30 people were in attendance. One of them was an 11-year-old boy named David Lewis. As the events of…
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Nice weekend

Saturday got off to a slow start, but we got lots done outside. I have the paint to finish up the porches, and we got all the final hardscaping done for the gardens. What a relief to have that finished! We used the leftover shingles from the house as weed barrier — silly I know, but at least it’ll be permanent. Jared finally got to work on shed, and he…
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The new YW value

Stake Conference was today. I am trying to find Christ-like things to say about it, but it’s pretty difficult, actually. Two of the talks were very good, 5 were okay, and two were downright bad. I did laugh out loud when the Mission President’s wife said she thought the next YW value should be guilt! Ha! I could just imagine that section in the personal progress book. 200 pages in…
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I will prepare now to go to the temple

Primary Talks

Let every man esteem his brother as himself (D&C 38:24). Deanna’s CTR B teacher held up a picture. “Does anyone know what this is?” Deanna raised her hand. “The temple.” Sister Dench smiled. “That’s right. Do you know which temple it is, Deanna?” “The Denver Temple.” Deanna knew because her mother had hung a picture of it in their home. “Why do you think Heavenly Father wants us to have…
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