Author: Jenny Smith

Jenny Smith is a designer who started blogging in 2004 to share lesson and activity ideas with members of her home branch Mississippi. Her collection has grown, and she now single-handedly manages the world's largest collection of free lesson help for LDS teachers with faceted search. Her library includes teaching techniques, object lessons, mini lessons, handouts, visual aids, and doctrinal mastery games categorized by scripture reference and gospel topic. Jenny loves tomatoes, Star Trek, and her family -- not necessarily in that order.
July 29, 2010
Nooooooooooooooooooo!

It's unofficially official: Salt Lake has given the go ahead and the ward is splitting before school starts. Arg. I was praying the whole thing would fall through after I first heard about it, but I felt guilty and all, so I started praying that everything would work out the best for our family instead. […]

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July 22, 2010
Have a Blessed Day

There’s a lady working the checkout at Target who I call the Have a Blessed Day Lady. She must work about 100 hours a week, because I get her almost every time I come into Target. And as soon as I catch a glance at her–before she’s even said a word–I think “have a blessed […]

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July 22, 2010
Have a Blessed Day

There's a lady working the checkout at Target who I call the Have a Blessed Day Lady. She must work about 100 hours a week, because I get her almost every time I come into Target. And as soon as I catch a glance at her--before she's even said a word--I think "have a blessed […]

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July 18, 2010
I'm flattered, I think

I woke up today not wanting to go to Church. I'm tired from not sleeping well and cranky from being more than a little PMS'd. The kids are making me crazy and Jared and I are fighting. I just plain didn't want to go and have to deal with other people, ya know? I'm probably […]

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July 1, 2010
Why do 18-22 year olds leave the Church?

Our stake recently began a new push to get our college-age students attending our singles branch. There are some 500+ single adults in our stake, and about 30 of those attend sacrament meeting in the branch. While some of them do hold callings in home wards, most of them have simply stopped attending church altogether. […]

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July 1, 2010
Why do 18-22 year olds leave the Church?

Our stake recently began a new push to get our college-age students attending our singles branch. There are some 500+ single adults in our stake, and about 30 of those attend sacrament meeting in the branch. While some of them do hold callings in home wards, most of them have simply stopped attending church altogether. […]

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June 25, 2010
National “Back to Church” Sunday

I happened to stumble on a link to this site:http://backtochurch.com/resources/statistics/ while researching a topic for the girls’ camp devotional I helped with this week. What an interesting read! The site, http//BackToChurch.com/ is promoting a Christian “Back to Church” Sunday. It lists a number of extremely interesting statistics from a variety of sources regarding church activity. […]

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June 25, 2010
National "Back to Church" Sunday

I happened to stumble on a link to this site:http://backtochurch.com/resources/statistics/ while researching a topic for the girls' camp devotional I helped with this week. What an interesting read! The site, http//BackToChurch.com/ is promoting a Christian "Back to Church" Sunday. It lists a number of extremely interesting statistics from a variety of sources regarding church activity. […]

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June 5, 2010
Want to see inside a Mormon Temple?

Admit it -- you'd love to peek inside the nooks and crannies of a Mormon Temple. Well now you can! http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/scaled-mod... There's a new scale model of the Salt Lake Temple on historic Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can get an "Open House" type experience without having to wear those silly footies […]

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May 25, 2010
History of the CTR Ring

General Primary President LaVern Parmley asked her board to come up with ideas for a symbol to assist seven year old children in learning the teachings of Jesus in 1970 — the result was the CTR ring with it’s familiar logo and shield: Classic CTR Ring Image What is a CTR Ring? The little ring […]

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