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 22, 2004
Obeying the Commandments

Items needed an old, well worn shoe I take an old, well worn shoe and talk about how useful and comfortable the shoe is. It's a good shoe. I have worked and walked and jogged many miles in this shoe. They protect my feet from thorns and rocks and glass. At first, they pinched when […]

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September 22, 2004
Staying Centered in the Gospel

Items needed a few small unbreakable items a lazy susan You need a lazy susan or turntables that go in your cupboard for your spices. Demonstrate in some way how the things in the center spin much slower and don't fly off like the things on the outside. If you can't have the demonstration then […]

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September 22, 2004
Airplane lesson - finding your life's destination

Items needed two paper airplanes This is a talk given by 11 year old Alex. The idea was based on Our Destiny November 1999 Ensign First you make two paper airplanes. One needs to fly very straight and true. The other needs to look a little battered and fly more in loops. There are patterns […]

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December 16, 2003
2004 Mutual Theme - All Things Shall Work for Your Good

2004 Mutual Theme The Guidebook for Parents and Leaders of Youth invites youth and their leaders to focus on an annual theme as part of Mutual. The suggested theme for 2004 is "Search diligently, pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good" (D&C 90:24). Young Men and Young Women […]

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December 16, 2002
2003 Mutual Theme - Be Steadfast in Christ

2003 Theme: "Be Steadfast in Christ" "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men" (2 Nephi 31:20; see also For the Strength of Youth, 40-42). [display-posts tag="steadfast" wrapper="div" image_size="thumbnail" posts_per_page="100"]

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December 16, 2001
2002 Mutual Theme - Stand Ye in Holy Places

2002 Theme: "Stand Ye in Holy Places" "Stand Ye in Holy Places" (see D&C 87:8). Before 2002..... 2002 was the first year that there was a mutual theme announced by headquarters, and that theme was announced in December of 2001 in the Guidebook for Parents and Leaders of Youth. The theme is intended to help […]

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