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.
August 16, 2008
Optimism versus Pessimism

One's attitude regarding circumstances and people depends upon their attitude and what they are looking for... positive things or negative things. A woman with a beautiful rose garden has two neighbors... one an optimist and the other a pessimist. She invites the optimist over to have cookies.. the optimist looks out her large window and […]

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August 14, 2008
Not Christian Enough

I got another one of those weird Christian emails today; you know the ones: “Jesus kills people who mocked him (like John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe)” or “America is God’s Special Chosen Country” or “In God We Trust missing from US dollar coin” or “crazy liberals are taking prayer out of schools” or “lunatic goverment […]

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August 14, 2008
Not Christian Enough

I got another one of those weird Christian emails today; you know the ones: "Jesus kills people who mocked him (like John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe)" or "America is God's Special Chosen Country" or "In God We Trust missing from US dollar coin" or "crazy liberals are taking prayer out of schools" or "lunatic goverment […]

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August 8, 2008
MoFash08 - Stake Modest Fashion show

The Santa Monica Stake staged it's first "MoFash: The Modest Fashion Show" on May 3, 2008. Deciding to meet the challenge of modest dress head on, leaders held the event at a Church-owned ball field staged as an outdoor runway. The professional and amateur models over 60 several modest outfits ranging from swim to sporty. […]

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August 8, 2008
Weightloss failure

I guess I should post about the attempt at losing weight…. I started working out, and almost immediately my hands started bothering me. A way lot. I stopped sleeping and decided to go to the dr, but by the time that I realized it was my hands hurting, we were practically en route to S. […]

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August 8, 2008
Weightloss failure

I guess I should post about the attempt at losing weight.... I started working out, and almost immediately my hands started bothering me. A way lot. I stopped sleeping and decided to go to the dr, but by the time that I realized it was my hands hurting, we were practically en route to S. […]

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August 8, 2008
Is woman with cloned pups the ’77 kidnapper of LDS missionary?

Is woman with cloned pups the ’77 kidnapper of LDS missionary? – A former beauty queen whose obsession with an LDS Church missionary made international tabloid headlines 30 years ago appears to be the same woman who had her dog cloned in South Korea this week. [Deseret News LDS Feed] The link above has got […]

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August 8, 2008
Is woman with cloned pups the '77 kidnapper of LDS missionary?

Is woman with cloned pups the '77 kidnapper of LDS missionary? - A former beauty queen whose obsession with an LDS Church missionary made international tabloid headlines 30 years ago appears to be the same woman who had her dog cloned in South Korea this week. [Deseret News LDS Feed] The link above has got […]

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August 8, 2008
War in heaven

We all followed Jesus in the pre-mortal life. We all fought to keep our agency and be allowed to choose in this life. I used this one in Primary many years ago - First I had the kids count off, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, . . . so that each child was assigned a […]

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August 7, 2008
Team work

Have the individuals pair up and instruct them that they have one minute to arm wrestle as many times as they can. Whoever wins the arm wrestling match gets a piece of candy for every time they win. So they arm wrestle and get their candy (instruct them not to eat it yet). If they […]

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