This blog post explores the concept of sin as a form of self-inflicted pain, emphasizing the transformative journey from sin to redemption. It redefines commandments as blessings, underscoring the idea that disobedience leads to pain, while obedience and repentance bring joy and healing.
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Ok guys, not to toot my own horn or anything, but the resources that I’m handing off to you in this post are sheer and utter brilliance. There. I said it. TOOT! But seriously, as I was preparing these files to share them I was actually sad that I won’t ever get to really use […]
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This will be a pretty short post, but I wanted to share this. I’m pretty picky about formatting and paper. Mostly, I don’t believe in paper and like to avoid using it whenever possible. But when I do actually print things out I like them to fit nicely on a single piece of paper. So, […]
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Ok, so I’m sorry that this installment doesn’t have any cool downloads associated with it, but this is just a tip that I have for those running the Primary. I hate calling people. Like really, really, really hate it. I always feel like I get flustered or call at the wrong time and they’re eating […]
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On Sunday I was released as the secretary from our ward’s primary presidency. It came as a bit of a surprise since we had thought we were going to be in for three years and were just getting geared up for our third year. But apparently it was our time to go on to other […]
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Lately we’ve been having issues in our family with respecting other people’s personal space and being kind to others. So I decided we needed to have an FHE lesson on respecting our bodies and other people’s bodies. I looked around the internet and didn’t find anything that quite fit what I was looking for so […]
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Today is Mother’s Day and across the world Primary children will be getting up in sacrament meeting to sing a song to their mother’s in honor of the day. In our family we have a joke about my mom’s least favorite Mother’s Day Primary Song – Mother, I Love You. If you’ve never heard this […]
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We’ve all been there. You’ve gone onto Pinterest to pull up a recipe, or get an idea for FHE… and 2 hours later you realize you’re still there, pinning a million ideas that you’ll never get around to doing. Dinner’s still not made, you’re no closer to actually having an FHE lesson prepared and you […]
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If you don’t want to read through my whole explanation of how this FHE lesson came to be, or my personal suggestions for making this a little more special feel free to click here to skip to where you can download the lesson outline and PowerPoint. I won’t be offended. Ok, well I might be offended, […]
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So today is Throwback Thursday. I don’t usually post something for this, but I was thinking of a story that I don’t think I’ve recorded before, and I figured it was worth doing. If you want more of a reason for this post, sorry, you’re not getting one. In May of 2006 I was […]
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For Christmas this last year I put together 12 FHE lessons for my little sister’s family. I put together a lesson plan for each month with visual aids, recommended opening/closing hymns, an activity and a recommended treat (I couldn’t exactly put together 12 months of treats and hope they’d still be good at the end […]
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In preparation for our upcoming General Conference in a couple weeks I’ve decided to re-listen to all of the talks from October’s conference. I haven’t made it very far – I only just finished the second talk from the Saturday morning session. Yesterday though I started by listening to President Monson’s opening remarks where he lowered […]
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For Christmas this last year my family went back to my parents’ place to celebrate the holiday with my family. We were there for the Sunday before Christmas and got to listen to the bishop give a few thoughts on the holiday. He told a story of his family from when he was a young […]
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This week we had a family home evening lesson about birthdays as we’re entering birthday season in our household (Eric’s birthday was yesterday, his dad’s birthday is on Friday, Sam’s birthday is on Monday and Daniel’s will be in April). The lesson pointed out that part of having a birthday is that we’re celebrating the decision […]
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Last night I was reading in the Old Testament and came across a passage that I found very interesting. I was reading in 1 Kings about Elijah. After he performed his great miracle of having a wet sacrifice consumed by fire he by the Lord, he is left alone, fleeing from Queen Jezebel who desires […]
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Today my brother Cody enters the Missionary Training Center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to begin his two year mission preaching the gospel in Spanish to the people in the area of Morristown, New Jersey. I am so proud of him. When he opened his mission call I made over 80 […]
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Recently I landed a contract at Adobe, working in the same department as my wonderful husband Eric. When I was first applying for the job I thought I’d be doing one thing, when I interviewed for the job I understood that I’d be doing something else, and when I finally started the job I realized […]
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My family came into town today so that we can go up to Logan this weekend and spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my grandparents. While my mom was here tonight I coerced her into helping me make pies to take to Eric’s family’s Thanksgiving meal tomorrow. We decided that even though there will only be […]
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I went through this morning and wrote a quick list of all of the things I wanted to post for all the days between the 1st and the 9th. But I wanted to start by making sure I got today’s post up first and then I can go back and fill in the cracks. Today […]
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Note: This post sat in my drafts folder for over 2 years. I had originally intended to expand upon each of these items and tell the stories that go with them… but I can’t even remember the stories any more. So I’m just backdating it, publishing it and calling it good. Here’s a list of […]
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