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.
September 6, 2008
Website saga continues

I've made lots of progress today: finished tagging the entire activities database and uploaded all the Young Women articles. There were about 20 bad entries in the activities db, but I still ended up with 460. Now that they're tagged, it will really make Jared's job easy for the import. It took me about 8 […]

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September 6, 2008
Importance of lesson preparation

This activity explains different ways teachers present the gospel. 1) you can simply share the cake with your hand, and without care give it to your brother; or 2)you can prepare this peace of cake carefully, put on a plate and give it. You can compare this experience with the way you teach the gospel […]

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September 6, 2008
Repentance

Start with a jar or vase filled with clear water. I labeled the vase, "US". Next, take the food colorings, which I labeled, "SINS" and talk to the youth, etc about what are some sins we commit? With each sin stated, add a drop of food coloring to the clear water. After quite a few […]

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September 6, 2008
The restoration of light

Items needed A flashlight Lesson Take the pieces of a flashlight apart. Give one piece each to a class member. Have him or her stand at the front of the class holding their piece, have one extra class member stand up there with nothing. Ask each person with a part of the flashlight what they […]

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September 6, 2008
Living the gospel is an everyday thing

Items needed toothbrushes towels Lesson Give a few volunteers a toothbrush and towel. Ask people in the class to say things that help them live the gospel or keep the sabbath day holy. For each thing said, spread some toothpaste on the brushes till its overflowing and then have the people brush with it. Their […]

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September 6, 2008
Temple Work

Hold up the candy and say " I need a volunteer, and maybe this will encourage you," Give the volunteer the opened candy bar and say this is your task "eat chocolate, but you cannot bend your arms or waist or legs. Imagine that you don't have joints." Have her struggle for a bit and […]

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August 30, 2008
Website coming along

I feel like I’m finally getting this website looking like something I wouldn’t be embarrassed to show someone else. It has taken several hours to figure out the .info and .tpl files. Thank heaven I already knew some CSS. At one point I was stumped and finally realized I was missin a ‘;’ at the […]

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August 30, 2008
Website coming along

I feel like I'm finally getting this website looking like something I wouldn't be embarrassed to show someone else. It has taken several hours to figure out the .info and .tpl files. Thank heaven I already knew some CSS. At one point I was stumped and finally realized I was missin a ';' at the […]

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August 18, 2008
What Moves Mormons During Emergencies

What Moves Mormons During Emergencies – SALT LAKE CITY | 11 Aug 2008 | After recent severe storms in Ruidoso, New Mexico, Mormon missionaries joined with local Latter-day Saints to help residents deal with the damage. After a day spent diverting and damming overflowing rivers, volunteers helped victims move out of flooded and damaged homes. […]

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August 18, 2008
What Moves Mormons During Emergencies

What Moves Mormons During Emergencies - SALT LAKE CITY | 11 Aug 2008 | After recent severe storms in Ruidoso, New Mexico, Mormon missionaries joined with local Latter-day Saints to help residents deal with the damage. After a day spent diverting and damming overflowing rivers, volunteers helped victims move out of flooded and damaged homes. […]

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