Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
I love the Atonement. Studying it always leaves me with a feeling of comfort and hope. I’m full of mistakes, and the knowledge that my trials won’t last forever, and I can repent of my wrongdoings is so encouraging. In my studying latel…
I’m so surprised and grateful for the enormous response I’ve gotten from the posters I created just 6 months ago featuring Disney Princesses. They’ve been viewed by countless young women around the world, and I hope that they’ve been enjoyable and inspiring. I was recently looking them over, and felt the need to update them a little—and here’s the finished product! The design is essentially the same. They’re slightly larger (11×14, 100dpi), have higher quality princess images, and some have had their quotes switched, or at least modified. I’m really happy with how they turned out, and hopefully they can reach even further than their predecessors.
Recreating these also prompted me to get started on more Princess themed resources that would be especially helpful for activities such as New Beginnings, Young Women in Excellence, and Girls Camp—so keep an eye out.
To keep things simple for me, they can only be downloaded in one .zip file which contains all 13 images in JPG format.
I will NOT be offering custom sizes due to the demand that has previously placed on me. Luckily with the larger dimensions, they can still be adjusted in size and retain decent quality.
Girl with blank sign shared by Emily S. Website attribution: http://warrensmithfamily.blogspot.com/ PNG version with transparency JPEG, no transparency
My FAVORITE gospel topic to study is the Plan of Salvation, because it encompasses EVERY other element of the gospel and makes everything so clear. And there’s always something new to learn from it, no matter how young or old!
I’m hoping to start creating more handouts to correspond with Come Follow Me lessons, and so to start out with I have a batch for The Plan of Salvation—specifically for the lesson “What is the purpose of life?” because that’s the topic I’m teaching later this month—but they would likely prove useful in other lessons as well.
First is a basic illustration of God’s plan of happiness, including the premortal life, mortal life (with the necessity of temple ordinances and the atonement), the spirit world, resurrection, judgment, and the three kingdoms (including the three degrees within the Celestial kingdom). Along the bottom is Moses 1:39.
Next, I have an acrostic poem which offers a different perspective on the purpose of life, with each letter outlining something we need to obtain or achieve in order to reach our ultimate purpose.
I also have this quote from Elder Gary E. Stevenson’s talk Your Four Minutes, likening the plan of salvation to a race, with the prize being Eternal Life.
And finally an excellent quote from Uchtdorf’s Your Happily Ever After talk to young women.
All the files can be downloaded at this link. I have JPG image files, and PDF files with four to a page.
At this point I still don’t know which handouts I’ll even be using, so I guess I’ll have to rely on the Spirit!
When I created a tracking sheet for Personal Progress, I knew that eventually one for the Honor Bee would eventually need to follow. I’d just created this last night with the intention of sharing it at the end of the week, but then commenter Melody me…
I love the countless examples of women in the scriptures. Many claim that there aren’t enough women in the scriptures, and while their claims are certainly valid, I see so much depth in the few portraits of women we have the privilege of finding in our scriptures.
Quite a few have seen my series of value posters with Disney Princesses, and several people have mentioned that they would love to see value posters pulling role models from the scriptures. The idea excited me, as it was in fact directly correlated with a project I’ve been working on for the past several months, and so I focused my personal study on seeking out the righteous examples we’ve been given in scripture and finding the values they emulate.
As a disclaimer in advance, I do not own the copyright to any of the paintings used. These posters are only for non-commercial home and church use. I make no profit whatsoever from these posters. I did my best to search the copyright of the individual paintings to see that I would be able to use these images for this small, non-profit project. That being said, I found each one of these paintings to beautifully reflect the divine spirits depicted in the scriptures of each of these women.
Each poster is available as a JPG file, and the set can be downloaded as PDFs. They are only intended to be printed 8.5 x 11, or smaller.
Image copyright belongs to the following:
“Abish,” by James H. Fullmer
“Emma Hale Smith,” Copyright by Julie Rogers Art
“Rebekah at the Well,” by Michael Deas
“I Arose A Mother In Israel,” {Deborah} Copyright by Elspeth Young. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Al Young Studios.
“The Joy Of Our Redemption,” {Eve} Copyright by Al Young. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Al Young Studios.
“Queen Esther”, by Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert
“Ruth in the Fields,” by Merle Hugues
“She Shall Bring Forth a Son,” by Liz Lemon Swindle
If the copyright holder of any of these images requests I no longer use their image, please notify me at [email protected].
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