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Hannah's Vow

"Samuel Dedicated by Hannah" by Frank TophamI have been reading the Old Testament again, this time to mark the women in it and because Cedar Fort asked me to do a book on the women of the Old Testament. It won't be out for several years still, but I figured I'd better start studying. The last several weeks I have been in the book of 1 Samuel, which begins with the story of Hannah. 
I've always loved Hannah's story and have been impressed not only with her faith and her integrity, but also...

My Life is Full of Typos

It won't come as a surprise to anyone who reads this blog regularly that typos are my tragic flaw. I try my hardest to proofread and re-read my writing, but no matter how hard I try there are always typos. Most of the time I just don't see them at all, even if I read my writing out loud I still miss things. Later when they are pointed out to me it often astounds me how I could have missed something so obvious. 
I am acutely aware of my weakness, and lately I have been paralyzed by it. It...

Vintage Bible Flannel Board Figures {Guess the Women} Win them ALL!

Awhile ago our church library was cleaning out its shelves and during the process I inherited all the old flannel board story figures. There were over 30 stories from the Bible, The Book of Mormon, Church History, and a few random ones. No one else in our ward was interested in them but I considered it a real treasure!


The figures all are mixed together and I don't have the original stories to go with them, so sometimes figuring out which story is which has been a really funny experience. In f...

Through Inspiration: LDS Hymns Composed By Women by Kirsten Metcalf

Music is an important and sacred part of worship. The scriptures tell us to “praise the Lord with singing, with music, with dancing, and with a prayer of praise and thanksgiving” (D&C 136:28). Several Church leaders have also expressed their love of music and the power music has over us. President J. Reuben Clark Jr. once said, “We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.”
Church hymns are known to invite the spirit into our Church meetings a...

The Biggest Battle that Ever was Won

For the last several months I have been wrestling with a trial of the soul. It is one that has brought me to my knees again and again and has had me crying out for relief. In many ways I feel a bit like Job, whom the Lord allowed Satan to tempt and persecute, not because of anything wrong that Job had done but because Job needed to know what it felt like to struggle and to turn to the Lord.

As a child I was taught to imagine Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane suffering and bleeding and to ask,...

The Women of Zion's Camp

"Zion's Camp" by C.C. ChristensenI teach online Seminary for our Stake, for those kids who live too far away to attend early morning Seminary. This year we are studying the Doctrine and Covenants and last week we studied the sections 103-105, that deal with the history of Zion's Camp. Zion's Camp was an army organized by the prophet Joseph Smith to march from Kirtland, Ohio to Independence, Missouri to assist the Saints that had been attacked there and to reclaim the land that had been confis...

Yes, Virginia, Girls have Priesthood Power too

Last Sunday I substituted in Primary, the 6 and 7-year-old class. Our lesson was on the priesthood and its blessings. I started my lesson by making pinwheels with the children and talking about how there are powers (like wind) that you can't see but still have the ability to do powerful things. I then moved into making the example about how God's priesthood power is similar.  It isn't something we can see with our eyes, but that we can feel it and see it by watching what it does.

Not long...

Spring Break for Women! Win a Free Ticket

I am really excited about this giveaway today!

I am giving away TWO free tickets to a new event called Spring Break for Women which will be held in Brigham City, Utah on April 25, 2015 at Box Elder High School. Similar to Time Out for Women, this event will feature some amazing speakers and entertainment, giving LDS women an uplifting day of fun and learning.

And guess who is going to be the keynote speaker?

Me! 

I will be speaking for an hour, and I am so excited. I have been working on my...

The Chicken Mummy

"The Pharaoh" from "Chickens of the World" by Matthew Meyer  I mentioned in my recent post about our home school that for our unit on Egypt we mummified a chicken. This turned out to be such an unusual experience that I think it deserves its own post.

We have been using The Story of the World curriculum (which I adore) for our history lessons this year. One of the suggested activities for the lesson on Egypt was to get a chicken from the grocery store and send it through the mummification...

How to Change the World

“To do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness”

- Joseph F. Smith
 
This morning I got an email informing me that my favorite teacher passed away last night.

Mr. K was my High School journalism teacher. He was grumpy as a bear and sharp as a snapping turtle, and I think scared the pants off half the student body. He proudly called himself a curmudgeon, and the word fit him perfectly. Yet underneath his hard exterior was an incredib...