Tag Archive: missionary

Nt- Who Is Peter?

Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/02/nt-who-is-peter.html Peter…This is your life. Years ago, there was a television show called This Is Your Life. A celebrity would be picked and unbeknownst to them, the host would take them through their life accomplishments. Today, it was the Apostle Peter’s turn! Taking this 1975 Ensign article by Richard Lloyd Anderson, I was able to come up with 19 events in the life of Peter. Each class member read and…
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Resurrection Visual Aid For Yw Sunday Lessons

Downloaded from: http://ldsywideasandactivities.blogspot.com/2013/02/resurrection-visual-aid-for-yw-sunday.html  It can be difficult to imagine some gospel concepts (like the Resurrection!) so I wanted to make a visual aid that the YW could relate to. I  had a visual aid that I used to use during my mission and also when I taught Gospel Essentials as a Ward missionary. It came in very helpful to have something that people could see to help them follow the…
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We All Have Different Talents and Abilities

Singing and Sharing
Developing Talents

I am Serving in my Ward as the Activity Day Leader, but this as well as other post I have can certainly be used for FHE, YW, YM, and just plain for fun.  I just hope that this will help someone else to magnify your callings too.

I found a lesson in Gospel Principles Manual that was going to be perfect for us to help teach the idea about how developing our talents will serve our Heavenly Father.
We began our activity by teaching the principle of “Developing Talents” by discussing the following taken from the Gospel Principles Manual:


We all have special gifts, talents, and abilities given to us by our Heavenly Father. When we were born, we brought these gifts, talents, and abilities with us.

The prophet Moses was a great leader, but he needed Aaron, his brother, to help as a spokesman (Exodus 4:14–16). Some of us are leaders like Moses or good speakers like Aaron. Some of us can sing well or play an instrument. Others of us may be good in sports or able to work well with our hands. Other talents we might have are understanding others, patience, cheerfulness, or the ability to teach others.

We have a responsibility to develop the talents we have been given. Sometimes we think we do not have many talents or that other people have been blessed with more abilities than we possess. Sometimes we do not use our talents because we are afraid that we might fail or be criticized by others. We should not hide our talents. We should use them. Then others can see our good works and glorify our Heavenly Father (see Matthew 5:16).  


We also Talked about how we should appreciate other peoples talents, and how we can develop our own talents by learning from others.

Here was a cute Matt and Mandy Developing Talents Episode we shared in class.

When we use our talents we are promised blessings- we will have an increase in our talents, and be blessed.

I found this fun video on you tube and showed it to my group… Its about two missionaries that share their talents and the gospel.  It teaches that all our talents that we have or are developing, that we must use them to build up the kingdom of God.  To share our talents, to use our gifts to share the gospel and to bring people unto Christ.


We called the Primary Chorister to ask her if our Activities Day group could help her plan and teach a song to the Primary during singing time.  She was so willing to participate.

We chose to learn the ASL to Families can be Together Forever.



Families can be Together Forever
(I posted it the WMP and the MP4  …but it is also available for you to download from the above link- look to the right side and  you will find the link to download the ASL version- 
I really like this version best.) 



For some reason I could not view either on my iPad… so if you are still needing another version (American Sign language)- you should chose which works the best for your tablet, computer, group or family.  

Now we plan to teach it to our Senior and Junior Primary group.  It will be a lot of work but the girls seem to like a fun challenge. We will do this till they have their Primary Program later this year.


During our after school activity class time (if that’s what you want to call it) we will work on learning the sign language, make a little chart to help us remember what signs come when and then practice and practice. 

I hope you have fun with this- 

New in my shop

Downloaded from: http://ayearoffhe.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-in-my-shop.html I have uploaded a few new printables into the MOMO PRINTS Etsy shop. As always, each print is customizable and can be made in ANY COLOR of your choosing at no additional charge. Gordon B. Hinckley’s BE HAPPY Print. I love the message of this print. I am going to make this poster size and frame it for the stairway in our house. –     –     –     –    …
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Valentine’s Day

Downloaded from: http://ohwhatdoyoudoforsingingtime.blogspot.com/2013/02/valentines-day.html Here are a few ideas for Valentine’s Day. Hot HeartPlay “hot potato” with a heart to determine who comes up.  I found mine in the Target dollar section. The Loving TreeMake conversation heart ornaments out of construction paper & hang them on a tree (I use a small tree I have for Christmas).  Each conversation heart has a key word for a song on it.  Have the…
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Activity: Matching Game

Downloaded from: http://ocdprimarychorister.blogspot.com/2013/01/activity-matching-game.html Click on the link at the bottom of the page which says “Click Here for the ready to print PDF”.  It actually links to a Word document which contains the following pictures.  Delete the pictures that you do not wish to use.  I suggest keeping no more than 12.  Print two copies of the remaining pictures.   Cut out the cards and shuffle.  Tape each card to the…
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Scripture Scramble Puzzle

Downloaded from: http://seminaryatsixam.blogspot.com/2013/01/scripture-scramble-puzzle.html This is an easy and fun way to learn and reinforce Scripture Mastery verses.See instructions and teaching moment at the end of the photos As students arrive, each seat has 2-3 post-it notes with a word, number, or punctuation mark. When I tell them to go, they must work as a group to get their words in order to make a scripture mastery scripture. Until they see who…
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Soon, I Hope

Downloaded from: http://seminarymoments.blogspot.com/2013/01/soon-i-hope.html There have been many of you kindly asking for my scripture inserts. I am not ignoring you, I just don’t have access to my main computer. Not sure what is going on with it, but the screen will not turn on. We are thinking we need to buy another one. BUT as you know, some things have to take a back seat. It is not in the…
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