BYU Helping in Ghana

I am so excited and grateful to see the BYU community come together to bless those in need. Click on this: BYU's creation , to see how they are now helping Ghana children with lights in their schools and home.

July Visiting Teaching Message

Here are just 3 quotes from this months lesson. I hope we can all be a great friend/visiting teacher and bring this message along with our love into our sister's homes this month. You can find a link to the complete July 2008 lesson/message on the sideboard to the right.

"All Human Beings Are Created in the Image of God"

President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008): "Our bodies are sacred. They were created in the image of God. They are marvelous, the crowning creation of Deity. No camera has ever matched the wonder of the human eye. No pump was ever built that could run so long and carry such heavy duty as the human heart. The ear and the brain constitute a miracle. . . . These, with others of our parts and organs, represent the divine, omnipotent genius of God" ("Be Ye Clean," Ensign, May 1996, 48).

President Thomas S. Monson: "God our Father has ears with which to hear our prayers. He has eyes with which to see our actions. He has a mouth with which to speak to us. He has a heart with which to feel compassion and love. He is real. He is living. We are his children made in his image. We look like him and he looks like us" ("I Know That My Redeemer Lives," Tambuli, Apr. 1988, 6; Ensign, Apr. 1990, 6).

Susan W. Tanner, former Young Women general president: "[Did] your mother or father ever [remind you] to 'remember . . . that you are a child of God and must act accordingly'[?] Missionaries wear a badge as a constant reminder . . . to dress modestly and comely, to treat people with politeness, and to strive to have Christ's image in their countenances. . . . By covenant, we too have all taken upon ourselves Christ's name. His name should be engraven inwardly upon our hearts. Likewise, we are expected to act as worthy children of Heavenly Father, who, at least figuratively, has sent us to earth with the admonition 'Remember who you are!' " ("Daughters of Heavenly Father," Liahona and Ensign, May 2007, 107).

Count Your Many Blessings

There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it.
For example?

I am sitting here thinking how nice it is
that wrinkles don't hurt.....

and hoping you have a wonderful day.

A Good Approach

TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT.
DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT;
AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE.
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING,
WROTE IN THE SAND:

'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE'.

THEY KEPT ON WALKING UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH. THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM. AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING, HE WROTE ON A STONE:

'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE '.

THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM,
'AFTER I HURT YOU,YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?' THE FRIEND REPLIED

'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT.'

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.

Monday, Monday, So Good to Me

Rexburg, Idaho Temple

Do you need a Family Home Evening idea. Check out the side bar to the right. I've just added a new lesson on "Temples". Hope you're having a good day, great is better but good is okay too.

Sunday Fireside on KBYU

BYU Television and KBYU-TV to air Priesthood Commemoration Fireside

BYU Television and KBYU-TV, Channel 11, will air the special fireside, “Church Commemoration of the 30 th Anniversary of the Priesthood Revelation,” on June 11 at 6:00 p.m. and June 15 at 1:00 p.m., respectively.
The fireside took place on Sunday June 8, 2008, in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. It celebrated the 30 th anniversary of the 1978 revelation that extended the Priesthood to all worthy male members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The 84-minute program features testimonies and special remarks from LDS Church leaders and members including Elder Sheldon F. Child of the First Quorum of the Seventy, President Fred A. Parker III of the Atlanta Georgia Stake, Catherine M. Stokes, and President Ahmad S. Corbitt of the Cherry Hill New Jersey Stake.
The program also features musical numbers from a multicultural choir and solo performances from tenor Alex Boyé, a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Included in the fireside is a special video presentation, He Inviteth Us All, which commemorates the 1978 revelation and its impact on the church and its members worldwide. The following are the dates the fireside will air:

Idea For Fathe.r's Day

Trevlyn shared this last year on her blog but I wanted to put this forward again for any new readers. I think this would melt any daddy's heart. If you want more details click here.

This is the poem in the center of the kids footprints.

"Walk a little slower Daddy,"

said a child so small,

"I'm following in your footsteps

and I don't want to fall.

Sometimes your steps are very fast,

Sometimes they're hard to see;

So walk a little slower, Daddy,

For you are leading me.

Someday when I'm all grown up,

You're what I want to be;

Then I will have a little child

Who'll want to follow me.

And I would want to lead just right,

And know that I was true,

So walk a little slower, Daddy,

For I must follow you."