Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
As we were frequently reminded this past General Conference, especially in the Women’s session, This year marks twenty years of The Family: a Proclamation to the World. It was read September 23rd, 1995 at the General Relief Society Meeting, and since …
Shared by Amy R.: Elder L. Tom Perry passed away today. He has been on my mind, so I decided to do a Primary SHARING TIME about his talk entitled, “Obedience Through Our Faithfulness” from April General Conference 2014. He uses the analogy of a harnessed horse being led by gentle tugs from the driver as a metaphor for how the Lord gentle guides us with His spirit. When we…
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With this month’s Visiting Teaching lesson – we are asked to select a talk from General Conference to share.Well, if you know me – – you know that it’s almost humanly impossible for me to pick JUST ONE!I loved ALL of the talks!Didn’t you?So this month …
A couple weeks ago we had the opportunity to listen to General Conference. I love General Conference! Don’t you?A few conferences ago I decided to create a printable to help me study the conference talks. I shared the printable on my blog, and found th…
I loved General Conference! It was so inspiring and exciting. I took so many notes that by the last session my ink-stained fingers were cramped and twitching, but the rest of me was on top of the world! Thanks to the miracle of the internet, a…
Free Prints from 185th Annual General Conference Quotes (April 2015)Come back!!! More will be posted later…..Print is an 8×10 but it can also be printed as a 16×20 Download here: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8721/17032941315_9a83d1e202_b…
| The Resurrection of Christ….the greatest event to ever take place for us…. |
I have SO loved this idea since getting it once in Relief Society in a lesson on the great sacrifice of our Savior and His Atonement. I have used this around the Easter dinner table in my family. I’ve used it teaching teenagers in Sunday School and in a Family Night. And I’ve reused it in primary.
Kids love object lessons. And this easter egg “signs of the Savior’s Sacrifice for us” is a great object lesson for kids and adults alike. Every year, when I’ve taken out my little basket of eggs I’ve got a tear in my eye. I love the Savior. I believe in Him with all my heart. And I know in whom I have trusted.
| If you want to hear a great talk check it out HERE. |
In this chaotic life we are all a part of, it is a simple and clear walk through the steps to the Savior’s crucifixion and resurrection, easily understood. I would try to do this activity as a family on Easter Sunday.
| I love this painting depicting the sacrifice our Savior made for us…. |
As a former Catholic, and a convert to the church, I always have mixed feelings about not telling exactly what happened to Christ during his great sacrifice in Gethsemane and the events leading up to the Crucifixion. Why not recognize the greatest sacrifice ever made, given by the greatest who ever lived among us, on the universal celebration of Easter? I never did get that. Try to honor the Savior on Easter. That’s my simple and heartfelt message.
| Another favorite painting of mine…I’m looking for a big copy of it to put in my greatroom remodel…it says to me….”I will look for you when you are lost…even though you are odd, different, ugly, damaged” His love for us, evident. |
The eggs can be put together using this easy tutorial HERE at Serving Pink Lemonade’s blog. . Use stuff around the house to fill your eggs. Another with a LIST is HERE at scribd.com. I actually like both of them. You could do a combination of both lists. I would skip the vinegar though, yucky :D. A third lists is here copied from Yahoo Voices.
Some links for flipcards on good Easter songs are HERE at Precious Primary. 1. Jesus Has Risen 70, 2. Hosanna 66, Beautiful Savior 62 To Think About Jesus 71, etc. HERE is a flipchart on He Sent His Son at Sugardoodle. Pick a child to come up and choose an egg. Read the scripture inside and show what object is inside and explain what part it played in the Easter story. It is usually a very quiet and reverent time.
| This picture is from another bogger Beyond Sippy Cups HERE. |
I loved getting this for my family and using it many times. It has made a big difference in my life and my family’s too I believe.
| I am looking forward to Easter and Conference. My little kid’s table all ready….. |
| These eggs can be used for Resurrection Easter Eggs and the leftovers for an Easter Egg Hunt! |
| “The grace of God is a precious gift, an enabling power to face life with quiet courage, to do things we could never do on our own. The Great Physician does more than forgive sins. He ministers relief to the disconsolate, comfort to the bereaved, confidence to those who wrestle with infirmities and feelings of inadequacy, and strength and peace to those who have been battered and scarred by the ironies of this life.” Robert Millett (see Isaiah 61:1–2, Alma 7:11–13).” |
As we contemplate the gifts we have received from our Savior, and Redeemer, I have hope and trust in the above quote. I know there is a power we can turn to when life gets hard. And I, for one, need that power every single day.
We just had our Spring Break here in Idaho. For part of the week we decided to travel down to Utah to visit family, and I was able to attend the General Women’s Meeting with my Mother. It was wonderful!I love the way I feel after attending those m…
Making the Most of LDS General ConferenceThe week before LDS General Conference, I spend time encouraging my students to prepare their hearts and minds for the messages from our leaders.As part of the preparation, I challenge them to write down one que…
It’s spring time which means General Conference will be here before we know it. Seventeen LDS Bloggers are joining me to share a few of our favorite things. We are so excited to be giving away over $400 in prizes. It’s been a treat to work with …
I think it’s pretty evident that Personal Progress and General Conference go together better than Peanut Butter & Chocolate! Personal Progress is designed to help us draw closer to Christ and become like Him, and General Conference offers us specific revelation to help us do that!
Of course we know that General Conference serves as a great value project, but I went through the value experiences and found quite a few that include studying the teaching found in General Conference.
The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Learn about faith from the scriptures and living prophets. Read Hebrews 11; Alma 32:17–43; Ether 12:6–22; and Joseph Smith—History 1:11–20. Read two general conference talks on faith. Exercise your own faith by establishing a habit of prayer in your life. Begin by regularly saying your morning and evening prayers. After three weeks of following this pattern, discuss with a parent or leader what you have learned about faith and how daily personal prayer has strengthened your faith. In your journal express your feelings about faith and prayer.
As a young woman you are blessed with divine feminine qualities. Increase your understanding of and appreciation for womanhood. Read Proverbs 31:10–31 and two talks on womanhood from a conference issue of the Church magazines. Review what “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” says about being a wife and a mother. Then ask your mother or another mother you admire what she thinks are important attributes for being a mother. List the attributes in your journal. Then choose one of those attributes and strive to develop it. After two weeks report your success to a parent or leader.
Learn about the importance of patriarchal blessings by studying about them in True to the Faith and recent conference talks. Find out why they are given and who can give them. Discuss with a parent or Church leader how to prepare to receive a patriarchal blessing and how it can teach you of your worth and identity and be a guide throughout your life. If you have not received your blessing, prepare to receive it.
Select a gospel principle you would like to understand better (for example, faith, repentance, charity, eternal families, or baptismal covenants). Read scriptures and the words of latter-day prophets that relate to the principle. Prepare a five-minute talk on the subject and give the talk in a sacrament meeting, in a Young Women meeting, to your family, or to your class. Record in your journal how you can apply this gospel principle in your life.
ANY Choice and Accountability Experience
In my opinion, it seems like the majority of conference talks touch on the topics covered in these experiences, so it should be easy to find one to correlate with the experience of your choice!
Teach a lesson about service in family home evening or in another setting. Use pictures, music, examples [from General Conference], or demonstrations in your lesson. You may want to use the manual Teaching, No Greater Call as a resource.
List the issues, trends, and problems that weaken the family. Read the First Presidency message, “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”, and the section on family in For the Strength of Youth. Then research in the Church magazines the counsel of those whom we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators. Write in your journal your plan to strengthen your present family and the values and traditions you want to establish with your future family.
ANY Virtue Experience
As with Choice and Accountability, so many talks touch on the topics discussed in the value of Virtue, so there should be no problem finding one that fits!
I’ll admit that I’m not a huge Pinterest person— despite the fact that it appears otherwise—but every once in a while I’ll find something that really makes me smile. One thing I’ve seen abundantly over the past few weeks are several handouts with the phrase “Make the Most of General Conference” attached to a packet of M&M’s.
I thought the idea was so cute that it got me thinking of creating a companion handout. Another thing I’ve seen are poems using M&M’s, rotating it to make a 3, a W, and an E, each standing for something. I love President Uchtdorf’s advice for conference preparation, where he lists three things we can do, so I just sort of combined the two ideas and the result is a cute, fun handout with 3 Ways to Enjoy General Conference.
And even though I adore all the other handouts I’ve encountered, I really wanted cohesion, so I created my own “Make the Most” handout, designed to be similar to an actual M&M’s package.
Download both handouts full size here
Download “3 Ways to Enjoy General Conference” quarter size here
Download “Make the Most of General Conference” quarter size here
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