Welcome to our LDS Week in Review! In case you were otherwise occupied and didn’t have the chance to drop in throughout the week, here’s a summary so you can get caught up.
We started the week with “Teaching Your Sunbeam to Attend Class,” which discusses the natural rambunctious tendencies of three-year-olds and the difficulties they have learning to sit still. Then we investigated the strange ways husbands and wives communicate down the length of chapel benches in “Sacrament Meeting Sign Language.”
In “Relief Society: Reaching Out,” we are reminded of the importance of extending arms of friendship to the other sisters in our ward, especially as we might not know their circumstances and how our friendship might mean so much to them, and to us, too.
We then had a review of “One Lost Boy: His Escape from Polygamy,” a nonfiction book about a boy who had to turn his back on his polygamous family in order to attend his LDS meetings. He eventually sacrificed a great deal to serve a mission for the LDS Church, and this story is one of great faith.
“The Organization and Destiny of the True and Living Church” was the Joseph Smith lesson in our Relief Society/Elder’s Quorum classes last week, and we continued our Senior Missionary Series with “What Will I Eat in the Missionary Training Center?” and “How Will My Time Be Spent at the Missionary Training Center?”
“Primary Time: The Importance of Chores” reminds us that we should teach our children the value of work as they are instructed to do chores around the home. We also had a report on the conference talk given by Gerald N. Lund on “Opening Our Hearts.”
We kept up-to-date with our lessons for the week with “Dinner Discussions,” and we continued the Articles of Faith series with “The Sixth and Seventh Articles” and “The Eighth Article.” We also read a book review on “The End of Times,” which tells us more about the latter-day prophecies and what we should be looking for as we behold the signs of the times.
We learned about the book “Preparedness Principles,” which instructs us on how to gather food storage, make room for it, and use it in rotation, and we also had a talk with the author of the book, Barbara Salsbury. We then discussed how to handle more than one calling, if we are so asked to serve in our wards or branches.
We ended the month with “Preparedness and Old-fashioned Skills,” which reminds us of the need to learn some of these skills in case we find them necessary in the future.
We hope you enjoyed this week’s review, and that you’ll be able to join us again soon here in LDS.