From Boyd K. Packer
4.06.2013
4.04.2013
I'm Back! -and- April Handouts
So guess what? I got released from Cub Scouts (yay!) and was put in as Laurel Advisor! Wahoo! I am so overjoyed to be back in young women's I can't even say! So, with the new curriculum, it is a little different/difficult to prepare handouts for the lessons. I have come up with an idea that I'm hoping others will like, and maybe think it is a good idea as well.
I was talking to my brother about the need for a new curriculum, and why the Church felt the need. I knew it was time for a change, seeing as I was teaching the girls the same lessons I got when I was a youth a million years ago. He told me something interesting. He said that the youth that are now preparing for missions are not adequately prepared because they don't know how to verbally express themselves. With the boom in technology, they are used to communicating in small snippets of information that can be sent in a text message, shared in a status update on Facebook, etc. They don't talk to others about their feelings, let alone the gospel. As they go off into the mission field, this is all they need to do and they can't do it! Hence, the new curriculum. This is why such an emphasis is being put on the girls participating in the teaching process, and giving gospel centered assignments (I am calling them S.U.H. for Spiritually Uplifting Homework).
**Just a little side note on the assignments, these are really just questions, stories and/or quotes to get the girls thinking about the topic before coming to class.
So, with that said, here is my idea...Now I know I am starting 3 months into the year, but this curriculum isn't going anywhere, so it can just roll over into next January, February, and March.
Each lesson outline is headed with a question, followed by an answer. My thought is to have each handout be a 4x6 print of the answer to the question. On the back of the print, I will glue a paper with the question and then lines. These prints can be bound with rings, in sections by topic/month. Each one will have the question, the answer, and room for the girls to write down any notes, thoughts, scripture references, etc. that they find pertinent. Imagine what a great resource this could be as they leave on missions. About 60 gospel related questions, with gospel centered answers, their testimonies, insights, and references right at their fingertips and the entire bound "flip chart" will fit in their scripture case. ( I don't know about your wards, but our bishop has set an expectation that all youth will bring paper scriptures instead of their cell phones since they won't have access to digital scriptures in the field and therefore need to be able to navigate the bound scriptures with ease)
So there you have it. Below I have links to the April answers and Questions/Lines. Bear in mind, I do not hold the copyright to these images. I'm a google images search hound. I do not claim that these images are of my own creation and will give credit where I can.
It feels good to be back!
I was talking to my brother about the need for a new curriculum, and why the Church felt the need. I knew it was time for a change, seeing as I was teaching the girls the same lessons I got when I was a youth a million years ago. He told me something interesting. He said that the youth that are now preparing for missions are not adequately prepared because they don't know how to verbally express themselves. With the boom in technology, they are used to communicating in small snippets of information that can be sent in a text message, shared in a status update on Facebook, etc. They don't talk to others about their feelings, let alone the gospel. As they go off into the mission field, this is all they need to do and they can't do it! Hence, the new curriculum. This is why such an emphasis is being put on the girls participating in the teaching process, and giving gospel centered assignments (I am calling them S.U.H. for Spiritually Uplifting Homework).
**Just a little side note on the assignments, these are really just questions, stories and/or quotes to get the girls thinking about the topic before coming to class.
So, with that said, here is my idea...Now I know I am starting 3 months into the year, but this curriculum isn't going anywhere, so it can just roll over into next January, February, and March.
Each lesson outline is headed with a question, followed by an answer. My thought is to have each handout be a 4x6 print of the answer to the question. On the back of the print, I will glue a paper with the question and then lines. These prints can be bound with rings, in sections by topic/month. Each one will have the question, the answer, and room for the girls to write down any notes, thoughts, scripture references, etc. that they find pertinent. Imagine what a great resource this could be as they leave on missions. About 60 gospel related questions, with gospel centered answers, their testimonies, insights, and references right at their fingertips and the entire bound "flip chart" will fit in their scripture case. ( I don't know about your wards, but our bishop has set an expectation that all youth will bring paper scriptures instead of their cell phones since they won't have access to digital scriptures in the field and therefore need to be able to navigate the bound scriptures with ease)
So there you have it. Below I have links to the April answers and Questions/Lines. Bear in mind, I do not hold the copyright to these images. I'm a google images search hound. I do not claim that these images are of my own creation and will give credit where I can.
It feels good to be back!
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How was the priesthood restored?
What was Joseph Smith's role in the Restoration?
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