Relief Society: Three Tips for Visiting Teaching in the Summer

Summer can be a tricky time to get visiting teaching done. Well really it can be difficult at any time, but summer throws extra obstacles into the works. You have more children at home, and people tend to go on vacation in the summer. So it can seem difficult to get it done. Here are three tips to help you do your visiting teaching in the summer. 1) Call at the beginning of the month to set up your appointments. This way you have a longer period of time to work it out with everyone’s schedules. For example this month … Continue reading

LDS Family Week in Review: May 6- May 12

Gospel Doctrine In Seeking Out the Lost, we talked about our responsibility to help those who have lost their way spiritually. In Brought Back Into the Fold, we discussed the reason for such a celebration when the lost sheep come back to join us at church. Miscellaneous Articles Monday, May 7th: In Asking For Help, we talked about asking our ward families for assistance. In Home & Visiting Teaching Lessons, we learned about choosing the right Conference talk for the folks we visit. In General Conference: “Ye Must Be Born Again”, we were taught the Parable of the Pickle. And … Continue reading

Are You a Good Visiting Teachee?

The Relief Society has instituted the wonderful program of visiting teaching to help the sisters in the ward. Usually when you read about visiting teaching, you read about ways to become a better visiting teacher, but have you ever thought about how to become a better visiting teachee? There is one sister who I visit who I absolutely love to visit. She has a large family with children several years older than mine. Each time I visit I feel that she imparts knowledge to me about to help my children and how I can be a better mother. She does … Continue reading

Information on the Church

Today I was visiting the church’s website looking for something new to write about. I stumbled upon the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, which is available online. This is a very interesting find. It covers many aspects of Mormonism, with self-reflective look at the culture and beliefs of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. One of the best things about this book is that most of the authors are LDS and so you can learn from them what they really believe. Although the Encyclopedia is no longer available, you can access it online. It is still being update … Continue reading

RS/EQ: Ye Ought ‘Not Procrastinate the Day of Your Repentence’

We are already a week into the new year. How are you doing at keeping your New Year’s resolutions? Have you started yet, or are you putting them off until ‘tomorrow’? Some resolutions may not matter, but others may well have eternal consequences. The first Priesthood/Relief Society lesson from “Teachings of the Presidents of the Church” is entitled “To Live With Him Someday.” President Kimball discusses the things we need to do to return home to our Heavenly Father. As I studied the lesson, one of President Kimball’s quotes stood out in my mind. One of the most serious human … Continue reading

Lesson Schedule for 2007

If you have been wondering what topics you will be learning in Sunday school. The lesson manuals are the same through out the church. This is a great blessing because it allows us to all receive the same messages each week. The Nursery and Sunbeam 4 class will use the same manual that they always do. The manual is specially designed to meet the unique needs of the younger learners. The children in Junior Primary or CTR 5, 6, 7 or 8 will learn from the manual “Primary 3: Choose the Right B.” The children in Senior Primary or Valiant … Continue reading