For those of you with an iPhone, you already know that there is an app for everything. Well, it just got better. There was a previous application that I used for the ward directory, now there is a better one that was just released. You can have the entire ward and stake directories at your [...]
I recently came across an outstanding music artist, Mindy Gledhill. I had listened to a couple samples of songs from her website, and I had to buy the CD. I got the CD today and was thoroughly impressed. I really liked the song, “Feather in the Wind.” It reminds me of personal struggles that each [...]
Shopping online this holiday season? Here is an online CTR ring store. TheCTRStore carries a huge selection of awesome CTR rings for men, women, & children. They carry white gold, gold, sterling silver, and stainless steel CTR rings. Shipping is only $0.99! They provide the highest quality CTR rings and other LDS rings, such as [...]
Look for some nice music this Christmas season with your family activities or ward events? Well, here is a website that offers free choral music written for church choirs, vocal solos/duets, and various instruments. All of the downloads are free. The scores are in PDF format, and there are audio samples available as MP3. Ashley [...]
I went and bought this at the hefty price of nearly $100, and it’s worth every penny. It’s a over-sized volume (9 in. x 12 in.) filled with full-page color reproductions in almost 800 pages. I highly recommend it. The Revelations and Translations series of the Joseph Smith Papers Project presents carefully reproduced facsimiles of [...]
Sometimes, you just have to use unconventional methods to get peoples’ attention and teach them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here is an example of some missionaries being creative and thinking “outside the box.” Teaching is more than just sitting down and talking. These missionaries realize that there are other ways to convey messages.
1) Marriage Panel – Ask long-marrieds to be on a panel where any question can be asked with an honest answer. You might have to come up with your own questions at first, but if you have this activity repeated at various times in the year, maybe focusing on various topics, with various couples on [...]
Nephi: Of goodly parents I was born I’ve never drunk, I’ve never sworn This is Lehi, he’s my dad Laman, Lemuel, they are bad And who is this? Why this is Sam. Sam: Yes, this is Sam; Sam I am Laman: That Sam I am, that Sam I am I do not like that Sam [...]
We do not have cable television in our home; we canceled cable a year ago. We only get local channels, so rarely do we watch the popular cable TV shows. Besides, it is a “waste of time.” As Elder Uchtdorf said, “The nonessential things that take up time should be discarded, bad habits changed.” After [...]
Sister Julie B. Beck (Relief Society General President) at the General Relief Society meeting talked about eliminating the non-essentials from our life. Indeed this seems to be a theme over the course of the past year. Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf recently addressed BYU’s commencement ceremonies (April 23, 2009): Graduates should remember three principles as they [...]
