In the past, I’ve talked to you about burning Primary songs and General Conference talks to your computer, and then to a CD. With the update of the church website, there is a new item to add to your computer – Relief Society and Elder’s Quoroum!
If you find yourself often unable to read the lessons, consider putting them on a CD and listening to them on the road. This is what my husband does. He is currently working 12 hour days in a very physical job. It is becoming increasingly difficult for him to fit in time to prepare for the lessons, because he gets up so early and comes home exhausted. However, he also drives an average of 1000 miles a week with a CD player in his car. AND we have a CD burner for our computer. Now he has no excuse.
To locate the lessons, go to the church’s website. Hold your mouse over ‘Gospel Library’ and a side menu pops out; select ‘Lessons’ (about a third of the way down the list). Now you can choose from several manuals. Click on the picture of the President Kimball handbook, then click it again (your other option are lessons from the past). By the way, now that you can find the manual, you can never again complain that you can’t read the lesson.
Scroll down and pick out your lesson. Under the chapter title, you will see three tabs – ‘view’, ‘print’, and ‘listen’. Right click on ‘listen’ and then select ‘save target as’. Decide where you want to put the MP3 file and then save it on your computer.
From here, you have two options. You can either play the file immediately off of the computer. You could have done this while connected to the internet by simply clicking ‘listen’ instead of right clicking. However, by saving it, you are now able to listen to the file even with no Internet connection. Your other option is to burn the file to a CD using your CD burning program. This gives you a little more flexibility, and you don’t have to lug a laptop everywhere.
In our branch, a copy of the table of contents from the Conference Ensign is posted, with the talks for each month labeled. This enables me to add the talk from the fourth Sunday of the month onto the CD. The first Sunday, of course, is chosen by the Relief Society or Elder’s Quorum presidency, and the fifth Sunday is chosen by the Bishopric. I guess we aren’t supposed to prepare for those! However, I can make sure that my poor road warrior hubbie has a copy of the lesson for three weeks out of the month.
It’s always good to have an LDS Technogeek in the house!
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