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Oct 2013 Visiting Teaching Handout

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Here is the visiting teaching handout for this month for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

This month they are starting a new series on the visiting teaching message: “This is the first in a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring aspects of the mission of the Savior.”

The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Creator

This month the aspect that is being taught is that Jesus Christ is the Creator.  I chose to feature the quote by President Utchdorf; “We are the Reason He Created the Universe!  I love this thought and I hope that we can all remember this in times of trial and sorrow.

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Minky Baptism Quilt

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One of our grandson’s was baptized this last weekend.  This was a special day for him.  In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the children are baptized when they are 8 years old.

I have made it a tradition to make a quilt for each of the grandkids for their baptism.  It has always been a minky quilt with minky fabric on the front and the back!  They are so warm and cuddly!  I also have their name and the year and “choose the right” embroidered in one of the corners.  

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Sept. 2013 Visiting Teaching Handout

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 This month the Relief Society message for our church is Self-Reliance.

I really like this quote by Elder Hales about the purpose of both temporal and spiritual self-reliance.  Here is the printable for this month:

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Aug. 2013 Visiting Teaching Handout

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Here is my visiting teaching handout for this month.

This is a message that the sisters of the church take out to each other when they go to visit them each month. 

The message for this month is about welfare.  The thought that I used is the one by President Erying, I love the overall message of this quote.  There has always been a way provided for us to help others.  We need to just keep our eyes and our hearts open to those around us that we could serve!

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July 2013 Visiting Teaching Handout

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This month the message for visiting teaching for our church is “Teaching and Learning the Gospel”  There is a quote by President Kimball that says in part:  “Become scholars of the scriptures-not to put others down, but to lift them up!  After all, who has any greater need to ‘treasure up’ the truths of the gospel than do women and mothers who do so much nurturing and teaching?”  So this is what I based my handout on for this month.

I thought that it would be fun to do an Americana theme since it is July.  

I  also mentioned  a few days ago, that I am making some changes to my blog and one of the things I am doing is making my printables in a pdf format so that you can just download them, I hope this will make things easier for you to print them!  

So this is what I came up with for this month!

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Visiting Teaching Handout-June 2013

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This month the visiting teaching handout for June is titled “Joy in Family History”.

My husband and I both come from families that have several people that do a lot of family history and a lot of our work has been done, but we went to one of the church’s  family history centers several months ago and one of the really fun things that we did was to generate a family genealogy fan!  This is a great image that will show you all of your ancestors all in the same place.  It shows you who has been found and where there are holes in your lines.  It is really a cool way to see everything all at once!

You do not have to go to a family history center to generate your own fan, anyone can do your own online here:

Genealogy Fan

This is a fun way to get started with your family history, or if you have already done some of your history, this is a great way to see what you have done and where the holes need to be filled in.  I really encourage you to try this and also to encourage your sisters that you visit to try it out.  I would love for you to share this link with them.

So this month, for the visiting teaching message, I thought that it would just be fun to do a tag that says “Scatter Sunshine through Family History”.

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Thursday’s Thought-I Can Do Hard Things

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I was having a frustrating day last Friday and I was in a hurry and everything was going wrong.  The faster I tried to go the more frustrated I got.  I was driving on the freeway and people were cutting me off or pulling in front of me and slowing down,  I was becoming a nervous wreck.  I finally just said to myself…this is ridiculous,  you are getting frustrated over petty little things.  What if you had some real problems to worry about!  It was a good wake up call to myself!  There are bad things going on all around us, but yet there are so many more good things, if we will just keep our focus on the positive.

Then on Sunday at church we had a lesson on trials and there were a lot of different comments about how we handle our trials.  There are several ladies in our neighborhood that are going through some pretty tough trials right now and one of them made the comment about how she had this saying right by her bed and one day her daughter came in when she was having a teary moment and through her tears, she said to her daughter that she could not do hard things.  Her daughter replied, “Yes you can, they may just be through some tears, but you can do hard things, mom.”  That really touched my heart and I have thought about that many times this week.

It is all in our attitude!

So my thought for this week is the saying that my neighbor has by her bed:

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I need to print this out and frame it so I can have a good reminder!   I have so many great examples all of around me of people that are doing hard things.  I am so proud of them and I appreciate their strength and examples.

If you would like to print this, right click over image and go to “save image as”  then save in a folder.  It is formatted for an 8 x 10 picture.  You can send it to your favorite photo processing center or print your own!

I think that I will look for a fun frame to put this one in!

Have a great day today and remember that

You Can Do Hard Things!  Love Ya!

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Young Women’s Sewing Class

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Last week I taught a sewing class for the Young Women in my ward at church.

 It was one of  the same classes that I taught to the women in a Relief Society activity and the young women wanted to learn, so we did a sewing class for them!  It was how to make the maxi skirts that I did here.

These girls were all so cute and eager to learn how to make these skirts.  There were about 15 girls there and they all got their skirts done except for the hem in 2 hours.  They were faster than when I taught it to the women in RS!

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Spring Break 2013

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I am having a hard time getting back into a routine.  After our trip to Arizona and a long weekend at the cabin I just want to play all day!  Who wants to clean house and work when you have had so much fun?

This last week was spring break here, so we decided to go to the cabin for 4 days and we had two of our families come up.  It was non-stop commotion, but it was fun commotion!  Not too long after we arrived the first day, my son-in-law texted me asking me to send him a picture of his two kids with the reservoir in the background.  This is what I sent him…

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