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Updating the RS/PH Manual Mid-Year?
Last night I noticed a change on lds.org. I’m not sure when it happened, but a new page has been added called “Common Questions for Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, 2012.” (Notice the site dates the GAS manual itself as 2010, so this is evidently quite new.) Only...
Book of Mormon Lesson #17: “A Seer Becometh a Great Benefit to His Fellow Beings,” Mosiah 7-11 (Sunday School)
Let’s say that this lesson serves as a kind of bridge between Benjamin and Abinadi. At least, that’s how I want to take it. There’s much to learn as we cross this bridge, but my principal aim will be to set up as well as possible Abinadi’s speech and circumstances. We’ll see why...
Sharing Time- April week 3: Jesus Christ taught me the right way to live.
Thoughts: This week I wanted to focus on how Jesus Christ treated the less desirable people of his time, or the “sinner” of His day. I want to teach the children that we are not to look down upon those who are “different from themselves, but to become like Jesus and to truly love others as...
RS/MP Lesson 8: “Temple Blessings for Ourselves and Our Ancestors” (George Albert Smith Manual)
As always, these notes provide insights into scripture with the intent that individuals will come to their own conclusions on how best to present the material in the manual. I know of no better way of accomplishing that task than by reading the scriptures. In my own lessons, quotes from the manual...
RS/MP Lesson 7: “The Immortality of the Soul” (George Albert Smith Manual)
In sports, sometimes a team is said to be playing not to lose, rather than playing to win. What does that mean, and how can it be applied to thinking about immortality? I don’t think immortality in this lesson is referring just to the absence of death, as we usually think of it. Rather, I think...
April 2012 Visiting Teaching Message: Free Printable
This month's Visiting Teaching Message focuses on how we, as Visiting Teachers, are called to love, watch over, and strengthen the sisters in our lives, and we are given 9 suggestions on how to magnify our calling. This printable is a great reminder for WHY we visit, and HOW we are to do it. In...
Book of Mormon Lesson #16: “Ye Shall Be Called the Children of Christ,” Mosiah 4-6 (Sunday School)
In my last post, I worked through Mosiah 1-3, the first “half” of Benjamin’s speech. Now we have the remainder—Mosiah 4-6—to work through. I’ve already commented in my previous post on the fact that Benjamin has taken us, thus far, through a discussion of the creation, then of the fall,...
Book of Mormon Lesson #15: “Eternally Indebted to Your Heavenly Father,” Mosiah 1-3 (Sunday School)
King Benjamin’s speech in two lessons? Well, it’s a bit slower than we’re usually forced to go, but there’s anything but the necessary space here to deal adequately with Benjamin’s pregnant words. In many ways, Benjamin’s sermon is the Sermon on the Mount of the Book of Mormon, the...
Added Focus on Ministering Strengthens Visiting Teaching
While Visiting Teaching Messages have always focused on the teachings of the Savior Jesus Christ, beginning in April they will begin to teach about ministering as He would. April’s message, “Love, Watch Over, and Strengthen,” is the first such message to teach these principles. Visiting...
Sharing Time- March 2012- Week 4: I am blessed when I choose to follow the prophet
Purpose: To help the children understand that we sometimes have to listen closely because the we have to exercise our brains sometimes and not just follow the crowd. That we have to use our ears, eyes, hearts, and...
Book of Mormon Lesson #14: “For a Wise Purpose,” Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon (Gospel Doctrine)
We’re on our way from the small plates to Mormon’s abridgement, and that way is paved by several short books. What I’ll do in this lesson, mostly, is attempt to set the stage for the Book of Mosiah. I’ll have relatively little to say about what’s usually talked about in Enos and Jarom,...
Book of Mormon Lesson #13: “The Allegory of the Olive Trees,” Jacob 5-7 (Gospel Doctrine)
As I mentioned in last post, I’ll be tackling all of Jacob 4-7 in this post. I noted last time that chapters 1-3 form a unit, while chapters 4-6 form a distinct unit, and chapter 7 forms a unit all its own. So I’ll be addressing chapter 4 in connection with chapters 5-6. And I’ll add some...
Visiting Teaching Message (Mar ’12)
Study this material and, as appropriate, discuss it with the sisters you visit. Use the questions to help you strengthen your sisters and to make Relief Society an active part of your own life. Daughters in My Kingdom We are daughters of our Father in Heaven. He knows us, loves us, and has a...
Book of Mormon Lesson #12: “Seek Ye for the Kingdom of God,” Jacob 1-4 (Gospel Doctrine)
This is the first of the two lessons dedicated to the relatively short Book of Jacob. The task here is to tackle chapters 1-4, while the next lesson tackles chapters 5-7. I’ll arrange my notes slightly differently. It’s quite clear that chapters 4-6 make up a single unit (chapters 4-5 were a...
Relief Society Lesson #6: Sustaining Those Whom the Lord Sustains
We’ll begin with a scripture story about the prophet Moses. His people were at war with the people of Amalek. Moses went up to a hill to watch the battle and brought his rod with him, the same one he had used when he cursed the Nile while persuading Pharaoh to free the Israelites, and that he...
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