Service Poem
April G. shared this cute handout to accompany Young Women Manual 2, Lesson 30 on Service. 3 per page, 8.5 x 11 inches, black and white.
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Peace and Happiness
This handout was submitted by Lindsay S. to accompany lessons on peace and happiness. The quote by Marion G Romney reads: “The sure way to peace and happiness in this life and life hereafter is to serve the Lord today and every day.” Color, 6 per page
Body and Spirit Connection – Health Care in the Home
Kari G has some ideas for Manual 1, Lesson 40: Health Care in the Home. The handout includes the True/False questions from the lesson. She also says: “I will draw an outline of a body on the board and write the words, ‘happy, energetic, fun-to-be around, etc…’ on it. “I will cover it with a paper body outline and write the words, “sick, tired, feverish, pain” on it. “We will…
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Young Woman At Work
This black and white image, Yw At Work, was donated by the artist, Chris Gunn. Click to read more about Chris.
Manual 3 Lesson 3
April G. created these cute bookmarks to accompany Man 3 Lesson 3. The quote from the manual reads: “The sure way to peace and happiness in this life and life hereafter is to serve the Lord today and every day” (Marion G. Romney, “Serve the Lord Today,” Ensign, June 1979, p. 3). 3 per page, color, 8.5 x 11 inches.
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.
When I serve others, I serve God.
Happiness comes when we obey God’s commandments. Jesus Christ taught the first and the second commandments. He said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.” Then He said, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matthew 22:37, 39). We can obey these commandments by serving others. That means we do something kind for them. When we serve others we can be happy. Jesus showed us how…
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Prophets and apostles show us how to serve.
President Thomas S. Monson repeats what the Savior said — that in order to find purpose in life, lose yourself in the service of others. “Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourish — and in effect save their lives,” he says. (http://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/serve-god-by…) No living person has stood before more general conference…
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Jesus Christ taught us how to serve others.
Jesus Christ said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” ( John 15:13 ). This doesn’t mean we have to die to show our love for our friends. We lay down our lives every time we put someone else’s needs before our own. (And the “friends” mentioned in the scripture above can be understood to be everyone we meet, since…
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Lesson 30/Manual 1
So many fun things to do with this lesson. I got some great ideas from Sugardoodle, some of my favorites are:
First was this great handout idea about doing all you “can”.
She made a label and attached it to a soup can. I would take it one step further and make that can into a treat can. I’ve done these cans before as a Visiting teaching treat for my ladies.
here is the can I made
and here’s where I learned to do them.
What you do is cut off the bottom of the can and empty and clean it out then refill it with treats and reseal the bottom back on. Be sure to use pop top cans and for the lesson I would find the small cans, like lunch snack size.
The label from Sugardoodle read:
Do all the GOOD you can
By all the MEANS you can
In all the WAYS you can
To all the PEOPLE you can
At all the TIMES you can
For as LONG as you can
By all the MEANS you can
In all the WAYS you can
To all the PEOPLE you can
At all the TIMES you can
For as LONG as you can
Helping comes in CANS not in CAN’TS
May your cupboard be filled with CANS!!
* Updated 7/26/12~ I’ve created a can label that should fit the small fruit cans. If it’s too big just trim to fit, too small and you can back it with a solid paper first.
you can download it here
* update~ I’ve added a new label because the white writing is too hard to see when you print them out.
I also found a great little story about service from This ‘n’ That
The story goes:
One day a man said to God, “God, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.
God showed the man two doors. Inside the first one, in the middle of the room, was a large round table with a large pot of stew. It smelled delicious and made the man’s mouth water, but the people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.
The man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. God said, “You have seen Hell.”
Behind the second door, the room appeared exactly the same. There was the large round table with the large pot of wonderful stew that made the man’s mouth water. The people had the same long-handled spoons, but they were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.
The man said, “I don’t understand.”
God smiled. “It is simple,” He said, “Love only requires one skill. These people learned early to feed one another. Those who are hungry are greedy people, and they think only of themselves.
It would be cute to attach this little parable to a cute wooden spoon. I found some ideas for decorating a wooden spoon.
Tape off the handle and paint stripes
Just dip the handles in bright colors.
you could also use some ribbon and twirl it around the handle. This is a spoon I made for a Christmas treat and you could see that you could attach the story and maybe a little treat.
A great object lesson on how we give our service, is it with a grudge or with a smile?
Display nice cake. Ask who would like a piece. Sometimes no one will take a piece as they smell a rat! I’ll then cut a nice piece for one of the leaders – given on the china with a nice napkin and fork. They usually tell me how tasty it is and then the girls all want a piece. I then slash a hunk of cake off ;and toss it in the paper napkin squishing it a bit and handing it over without a smile. The object is how it’s how we serve not what we serve. The cake is the same cake but tasted so much better when served in a kind thoughtful, manner.
I’ve actually seen this done and it leaves a big impact.
There was also this great idea of leaving a calling card after you’ve done an act of service.
I’ve made up a card you can print out and give a few to the girls to leave behind after they’ve done a good deed.
you can download this card here
I also have found some great sites with ideas for service.
This one has 52 great ideas. I would print out the list and give it to the girls with the sneaky service calling cards.
This one was more geared toward Christmas time but you could adapt some of her ideas
I always like to break up the lesson a bit with a video so they can hear someone else testify to what it is I’m trying to teach. This is a great video by Pres. Monson that I would use.
Definitely read the additional resources on the side bar of the lesson, so many good talks to take from.
Hope I was helpful and please don’t feel you need to do it all just take what works for you.
Have a wonderful lesson!
*if you have trouble downloading my printables please email me at the email address on my sidebar and I would be happy to get them to you directly. : )
Kindness begins with me
Ahhhhh I so Love this video (its at the end of the post), I have been feeling this all week long, month long really. I started a “30 days of service” on June 1st and I have loved every second of it. It has been alot of work and planning but…
Scatter Sunshine
For the past few months I have really been wanting to do service for 30 days, so I went in search to see how others have done it, I got this idea from;
We Talk of Christ We rejoice in Christ
So we have thrown this out there to our Young Women- hoping for everyone to do 30 acts each (1 each day for each of us) of service before we go to girls camp. I have encouraged our girls to record their service on a calendar, journal or notebook.
We have been having fun (or at least I have :) )
“We are the Lords hands here upon the earth, with a mandate to serve and lift his children. He is dependent upon each of us” – President Monson
One thing I loved about this project is that I have noticed a difference in myself- going out of your way to do service is not as easy as it seems. There are tons of things that I consider “service” but I really wanted to make sure “my” service was not what I normally do.
I found this great site where Brad Jameson is doing 30 days of service for 30 different charity’s wow was I impressed and inspired. Check out his experience- I did not know him prior nor do I know him now I just stumbled upon his blog.
Joycelyn @ we talk of Christ We rejoice in Christ put together a service chain you can upload from her site, she also did a service boot-camp that looked awesome. I have also put together a list that can be downloaded below
a List of Service Ideas- Download
This is my list of things I have done so far:
Day1- dropped a plant and Thank you note to our old Relief Society president.
Day2-I mowed the lawn so my husband would not have to :)
Day 3– I baked cookies and took them over to my neighbor who lives alone and visited with him
Day4-I gave my son some money- and called an old friend for her birthday
Day 5– I wrote out 5 thank you cards today for some people I should have thanked a long time ago
Day 6– I wrote more thank you cards (I was a slacker this day)
Day 7– I put together all the little shampoo and soaps that we have from John travelling I dropped them off at Dixie care and Share.
Day 8– the DI is hurting for jackets this coming year- so I went through all of our jackets and took some to them.
Day 9– Made another trip to donate things to DI & made my son 2 cakes (because i overcooked the first)
Day 10– I lined up prayers, put together a bio on a speaker we had coming for our stake fireside (I was not asked to do this till 10pm sat night because the person suppose to do it did not)
Day 11-I finished up our quilt that we tied back in December- I bound the edges
Day 12– I wrote thank you notes for my neighbors
Day 13– took Cameron a dog kennel and kids riding gear
Day 14– Took a little goodie bag to one of my girls and visited with her
Day 15– I visited with 2 of my yw for 3 hours- I had an opportunity to bear my testimony to them
Day 16– I went to the temple and did a session
Day 17– I wrote letters to 3 of my girls
Day 18– I got a bottle of Tide, taped $2 in quarters to it, put a bow and a note that basically said pass the kindness on and dropped it off at the laundry mat- I actually saw someone in there and asked if she needed it and gave it to her.
Day 19– I gave a ride to someone who needed to pick up their car – and dropped cupcakes off at my friends home.
Day 20– I tied a bow on one of my hardback books and gave it to a friend
Day 21-Today service was different- some of my girls came by to make cookies, I ended up cooking them dinner- and we sent cookies home for their moms.
Day 22– I took cookies over to someone I have served with- we had an awesome visit
Day 23– Today I felt impressed to tell a lady at the storage unit place that I loved seeing her scriptures at work-we had a wonderful chat
Day 24– Today I sent a Thank you note to a lady I use to work with a couple years ago, her husband serves in the military and he is away alot- he just got home on the 23rd- I know its been hard on her
Day 25– When going through our stuff my husband was going to throw some ties away- we put them aside for Taylor who is serving in Guatamala
Day 26– I took an old (only like 4 years) prom dress over to one of my girls, also gave a juice to a friend
Day 27-Took some food over to my neighbor
Day 28- I paid someone a compliment today- felt like I needed to let a lady in Trader Joes that she looks nice.
Day 29– I saw a little boy fall in a parking lot today- I stopped asked if he was ok and made sure he was ok.
Day 30– today we gave a working washer machine and dryer to a family who needed one
I think I might keep going :)
I have had some great experiences but one that stands out is that I wanted to drop off the shampoo and stuff to a women shelter, but they needed full bottles not the little ones, so I went to Dixie Care and Share and I don’t know why but when I saw all the people coming and going I got nervous and just decided to take it somewhere else. As I was driving down the road something told me to go back there that they needed the shampoo and stuff. So I turned around and walked my butt right in- so grateful for the spirit that can guide us if we listen.
I also realized how important it is to always be aware of people and situations around you so that you can be a tool in the Lords hands.
I would love to here some of the things you have been doing- We all every day do some sort of kindness towards someone else- Please share what you have done.
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Have I done any good in the world today?
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I baked cookies yesterday and took some to my neighbor- sat and visited with him for a bit :) what have you been doing?
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Mica Mangum Muahaha I dyed my friends hair for her today. That sure as heck better count hahaJune 4 at 6:34pm · · 1 -
Charisse Harris So guess what I am doing for service today? I am going to finally sew the edges of the quilt we tied in Dec ha ha
What are you going to do?June 11 at 11:07am via mobile ·
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