Facilities Maintenance – A House of Order Sign
The Facilities maintenance headquarters for the stake was in this building. When I saw this sign promoting the blessings of church cleaning, I just had to share.
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Sample RS Calendar
I am providing this sample of a calendar I created using Adobe Illustrator to show what our ward does for the monthly Relief Society calendar. It is based on Karen Anderson’s design when she was our ward RS secretary. The gray boxes are my thing — I think it’s a good idea to use the gray background to emphasize the most important activities. You should use at least 25% black…
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What if Seminary was foever cancelled?
Last week I read a blog entry from Leading LDS titled “What if Elder’s Quorum was Forever Cancelled“. It really got me to thinking about the meetings we hold in the Church. Would people have missed Relief Society if it was cancelled when I was president? How about now in Seminary? Do my students consider Seminary vital in their lives? Do they miss it over the summer? I hope they…
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Let’s Grow Together
In our ward they just changed the Young Women Presidency, and I got called to be the 1st Counselor! A little crazy, but it’s gonna be a blast! I love YW!!! So, for our 1st Sunday teaching, I made some cute little handouts for the girls. We played some …
Teaching Technique: Removing Barriers and classroom setup
I promised to write about this lesson some time ago, but hadn’t gotten around to it. The weekend before I taught this lesson was inservice meeting. For me, the actual lesson material is easy. I don’t have any trouble reading a passage and picking out something awesome to share or have the kids discuss. What I need is “techniques”. Now I know that you’re probably reading “gimmicks” here. I don’t…
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The Prayer Bucket
Jenny Smith
Scripture Memory – The 8 Best Game
Seminary Mom
Gossip
I saw a similar object lesson to the toothpaste. The teacher gave the students a small pillow filled with feathers. The teacher tore it open and told him scatter the feathers. After he had done that, he then told him to go and pick up all the feathers and not come back until he had them all. Of course that was impossible. Gossip is like scattering the feathers, hurtful words…
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Mother’s Day Service: Youth Teach Primary
Jenny Smith
10 Tips for Giving a Great Talk
Primary Object Lesson Talks You will get some good ideas from my LDS Object Lessons for simple Primary talks. Top Ten tips for Giving a Great Talk by Robert Felts, New Era, August 2000 from LDS.org Accept the assignment cheerfully, and pray for guidance, especially if you aren’t comfortable with the assigned topic. Start outlining your talk at least a week before your assignment. Use scriptures. Try to memorize the verses…
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Magnifying your Calling
This object lesson requires a magnifying glass, a sunny day , a piece of paper, and just a regular piece of glass. Take your class or family outside and give one person the magnifying glass and another person the normal glass. See who can burn a hole in the paper. The lesson could take many direction after this: In order to get quickly to the heart of a problem with…
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Importance of lesson preparation
This activity explains different ways teachers present the gospel. 1) you can simply share the cake with your hand, and without care give it to your brother; or 2)you can prepare this peace of cake carefully, put on a plate and give it. You can compare this experience with the way you teach the gospel in your class. Are you carefully preparing your lessons, or are you just haphazardly passing…
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