….We Seek After These Things!

Here is my outline for Joseph Smith Lesson #29, Living with Others in Peace and Harmony

Show various pictures such as scenery, temples, world, ending with sacred grove and O Jerusalem. With each picture ask how the sisters feel as they view each picture. (see if library has a picture of the Lion and Lamb together.) (more…)

This lesson outline is slightly different. I will be using the quotes with the Key# as handouts rather than my typical quote#1 etc. I liked the questions in the book, but I also feel that we need to distiguish between those members that are inactive, or leave the church because they don’t feel the need for the gospel, and those that actively turn away from the testimony they have gained and fight against the church. (more…)

I wanted to highlight this post written by TF Stern. It is well worth the read, and most definetly fits my goal of this site. Enjoy.

This is my outline for lesson #25. I have it starting out with my list of scriptures as quotes as there are many of them and it was easier for me to set it up this way, rather than at the end. So you will need to scroll down a bit to get to the lesson discussion. (more…)

(In preparation I plan to have a picture of the Kirtland Temple, a china tea cup and saucer, a couple of hand made doilies, and a string of christmas lights with bulbs removed and given to the sisters in the room for an object activity near the end of the lesson)

On December 27, 1832, the Prophet Joseph Smith received a commandment from the Lord that the Saints were to begin building a temple in Kirtland (see D&C 88:119). On June 1, 1833, the Lord gave further instructions to the Prophet: “Now here is wisdom, and the mind of the Lord—let the house be built, not after the manner of the world … ; let it be built after the manner which I shall show unto three of you” (D&C 95:13–14). (more…)

Here is my basic outline for my lesson coming up this Sunday. I am reading two things not in the lesson that I think will help, they are not important to the general lesson. (more…)

Wilford Woodruff, the fourth President of the Church, said: “The Lord told Joseph that He would prove him, whether he would abide in His covenant or not, even unto death. He did prove him; and although [Joseph] had the whole world to contend against and the treachery of false friends to withstand, although his whole life was a scene of trouble and anxiety and care, yet, in all his afflictions, his imprisonments, the mobbings and ill treatment he passed through, he was ever true to his God.”

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This is the basic outline of the lesson I taught in RS this past Sunday. It would make a good FHE lesson. I focused on the topic of Sacrifice and how can we make our sacrifices worthy, and sacred.

As the Prophet of the Restoration, one of Joseph Smith’s most important roles was to testify of Jesus Christ. He was blessed to enjoy a personal knowledge of the divinity of Jesus Christ and to understand His role as the Redeemer of the world. This knowledge began with the First Vision, in which young Joseph saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and heard the Father declare, “This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!” (Joseph Smith—History 1:17). In this sacred experience, Joseph was privileged to receive instruction from the Savior of the world.
Joseph Smith saw the Savior on April 3, 1836. The Prophet and Oliver Cowdery had retired to the west pulpit in the Kirtland Temple. They bowed themselves in solemn prayer, after which the Savior appeared before them (more…)

Author note. This is a copy of the talk I gave on July 29, 2007. The topic assigned was Joseph Smith. Not being so talented at writing these things on the net, my footnotes did not show correctly. I have added at the bottom the sources to the footnotes that I had, and tried to give the links to the talks I used. If they are not there, you can find them on LDS.org, under talk subjects, Joseph Smith, and restoration.

When Joseph Smith went into the grove of trees to pray, little did he know that he would walk out the head of the dispensation of fullness of times. He was, from that moment on the voice of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. A voice ultimately silenced in flesh with his martyrdom in Carthage Illinois. (more…)

Note- this is a copy of a review I have done on Tigersue’s Bookshelf. I thought it was appropriate to also post it here, and fitting for the guidelines of the blog.

Sheep’s Clothing is a chilling tale by Josi S. Kilpack. For a novel published by Deseret Book in LDS bookstores it is one that someone of any religion, and belief could pick up read and completely be engulfed in the weaving of the mystery and knowledge of what is about to unfold in its pages. I am not sure what I expected when I started the book, but I did not expect to be so completely involved that I finished in a few hours. I started it late yesterday, and finished it this morning before breakfast. (more…)