From: owner-lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com (lds-yw-digest) To: lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: lds-yw-digest V1 #29 Reply-To: lds-yw-digest Sender: owner-lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-lds-yw-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk lds-yw-digest Saturday, May 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 029 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 13:45:12 -0800 From: "Dan Rostrom" Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:02:04 -0500 An idea that came over the list a while ago to get the girls to read scriptures could work and I am going to be trying it in about 3 weeks. When the girls come in you ask them to raise their hand if they did NOT work on personal progress this week. For those girls who did not work on their PP you give then a bite size candy bar. Then you go on with your lesson.....I suspect there will be lots of grumbling and such if they make to much noise tell them you 'll talk about it at the end of the lesson. Then at the end of the lesson ask who HAS worked on their PP this week. Hand them a super sized candy bar. Explain that some times it looks as if those who are not doing what they're suppose to be doing are rewarded.......but in the long run if we are doing what we are suppose to be doing, working on our PP, keeping the commandments, paying tithing whatever it maybe, in the long run we will be reward far greater by our Lord. - -----Original Message----- From: Ken and Michelle Duker To: 'yw list' Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 1:06 PM Subject: (lds-yw) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:02:04 -0500 Wow, I am so impressed with the Wizard of Oz idea. You all are great. I am a brand-new subscriber, a brand-new first-time YW president in a small ward, and my girls are a little less than enthused about Personal Progress. I am working up a presentation to hopefully inspire them a little. My thought was to give each girl a wrapped gift with a small gift inside, and liken it to Personal Progress-you have to do a little work (unwrap the package) to get the goodies inside (a closer relationship with the Savior). Any ideas for what to give for the little gift, or any other ideas? I have about 10 girls, and the adults in our program are just me and one counselor. Thank you all already for the ideas I have gotten in just 2 days! Michelle in Iowa - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:58:39 -0500 From: "Denise Nix" Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:02:04 -0500 Michelle, I gave the girls a votive candle in a small glass cup... and likened it to the light of Christ. It was up to them to keep it lit. (This was their Christmas present but can be used anytime.) Would love to know where you are in Iowa. I'm also a new subscriber, new first-time YW Pres, and I'm in Shenandoah, Iowa with 14 active girls. It's a challenge! I can appreciate what you said about the girls being less than enthused about PP. This ward hasn't seen a youth graduate from Seminary but twice in 4 years... and only 1 medallion has been awarded in the 6 years the branch/ward was formed. My Laurels are still on BeeHive and MiaMaid values... I love the inspiration I'm being given just reading all these spiritual yet creative ideas.... Would love to hear about your piece of Iowa... Dee in Shen - ---------- From: Ken and Michelle Duker To: 'yw list' Subject: (lds-yw) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:02:04 -0500 Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 4:05 PM Wow, I am so impressed with the Wizard of Oz idea. You all are great. I am a brand-new subscriber, a brand-new first-time YW president in a small ward, and my girls are a little less than enthused about Personal Progress. I am working up a presentation to hopefully inspire them a little. My thought was to give each girl a wrapped gift with a small gift inside, and liken it to Personal Progress-you have to do a little work (unwrap the package) to get the goodies inside (a closer relationship with the Savior). Any ideas for what to give for the little gift, or any other ideas? I have about 10 girls, and the adults in our program are just me and one counselor. Thank you all already for the ideas I have gotten in just 2 days! Michelle in Iowa - ---------- - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 19:25:22 EDT From: rsburton@juno.com (Richard and Susan) Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:02:04 -0500 For the small gift inside, you could try something like the "shrink it" stuff and make a personalized thing for their keyrings. Just a thought. It's inexpensive and fun to do. You can get the "shrink it" sheets at Micheals. It's a type of plastic that shrinks in the oven. Just a thought>>>>>Susan of Palmdale, California _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 20:41:23 -0400 From: Marnie Canann Subject: (lds-yw) Re: Making Connections Fireside I got some questions about the Standards Night (Making Connections) that we recently had. I decided to post the games that one group used. I hope they are useful to someone. Marnie Pittsburgh >Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 20:38:21 -0400 >To: "Dale Phillips" >From: Marnie Canann >Subject: Re: Making Connections Fireside >In-Reply-To: <004401bd7986$9224b660$58ed2399@default> > >Laura - > >The video that we used is the one that the missionaries have right now. It is either entitled "Family First" or "Family Matters". We had to get a copy through the mission office. It was well done. We chose a 20 minute segment, but all of it is great. > >As far as games.. I can share the games from the group that I helped with. The lady who led the Laurel-Priest group had them do two games. After the games she talked about communication. > >Game 1 - Everyone needs to line up according to their birthday. Those with a January 1st birthday need to be at the front of the line. Those with a December 31st birthday at the end. No one is allowed to talk. After this group game you can lead a discussion on body language and what communication really is. You can talk about how we communicate and how to "read" what other people are trying to say. > >Game 2 - The game is called Mine Field. The object of the game is for your whole team (10-15 people) to get across the mine field. Equipment: a piece of a 2by4 (4 - 12 inches long) for each player. The rules of the game:Each person must be standing on a piece of board (no one may touch the "mine field"... the floor). More than one person may stand on any board. Your whole team needs to be on the floor at the same time (except at the very beginning/end). No one may slide/ski/etc on the boards. The first team to go across the mine field (we used the gym) wins. You divide up into groups and give the teams time (5-10 minutes) to plan how they are going to cross the mine field. Then the game begins. Be sure to have a judge watch each team. If a team members feet go off the board and touch the mine field the team has to start over. > >After the game is done talk about how they came up with their plan. What worked and what didn't - And how they found that out. Talk about how team members helped each other, etc. > >Hope these help. They went over really well with the youth and leaders and led to a productive discussion. > >Marnie >Pittsburgh, PA >At 12:05 AM 5/7/98 -0700, you wrote: >>Dear Marnie, >> >>We are doing our youth conference theme around families which would include >>a segment on communication. I would like info on the games you played and >>tell me about that video. Do you know the name and what was the video >>about? Any specific information would be great. Thanks a lot. >> >>Laura in CA >>Dale_Phillips@msn.com >> >> >> >> >> - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 23:05:44 EDT From: BURT9999 Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Help with a Mother's Day talk!!!! Hi my name is Anna, I am the 2nd counselor in our ward's YW program and I am helping one of my beehives, her name is Heidi, with a talk on Mother's for this sunday. We are wondering if anyone out there had any ideas for good subjects/thoughts/poems etc. . . Your help will be much appreciated!! I'll send you a good recipe for brownies if you send me some good ideas!! Thanks!! Anna :> West Jordan, UT - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 22:25:01 -0400 From: sabrinalarsen@juno.com Subject: (lds-yw) Re: Making Connections Fireside I would like to clarify the name of the video used for everyone interested. It is called "family answers- for a more loving family" It has taken the place of the video "family first". Hope that helps. Sabrina Pittsburgh On Thu, 07 May 1998 20:41:23 -0400 Marnie Canann writes: >I got some questions about the Standards Night (Making Connections) >that we >recently had. I decided to post the games that one group used. I >hope >they are useful to someone. > >Marnie >Pittsburgh > >>Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 20:38:21 -0400 >>To: "Dale Phillips" >>From: Marnie Canann >>Subject: Re: Making Connections Fireside >>In-Reply-To: <004401bd7986$9224b660$58ed2399@default> >> >>Laura - >> >>The video that we used is the one that the missionaries have right >now. >It is either entitled "Family First" or "Family Matters". We had to >get a >copy through the mission office. It was well done. We chose a 20 >minute >segment, but all of it is great. >> >>As far as games.. I can share the games from the group that I helped >with. > The lady who led the Laurel-Priest group had them do two games. >After the >games she talked about communication. >> >>Game 1 - Everyone needs to line up according to their birthday. >Those >with a January 1st birthday need to be at the front of the line. >Those >with a December 31st birthday at the end. No one is allowed to talk. >After this group game you can lead a discussion on body language and >what >communication really is. You can talk about how we communicate and >how to >"read" what other people are trying to say. >> >>Game 2 - The game is called Mine Field. The object of the game is >for >your whole team (10-15 people) to get across the mine field. >Equipment: a >piece of a 2by4 (4 - 12 inches long) for each player. The rules of >the >game:Each person must be standing on a piece of board (no one may >touch the >"mine field"... the floor). More than one person may stand on any >board. >Your whole team needs to be on the floor at the same time (except at >the >very beginning/end). No one may slide/ski/etc on the boards. The >first >team to go across the mine field (we used the gym) wins. You divide up >into >groups and give the teams time (5-10 minutes) to plan how they are >going to >cross the mine field. Then the game begins. Be sure to have a judge >watch >each team. If a team members feet go off the board and touch the mine >field the team has to start over. >> >>After the game is done talk about how they came up with their plan. >What >worked and what didn't - And how they found that out. Talk about how >team >members helped each other, etc. >> >>Hope these help. They went over really well with the youth and >leaders and >led to a productive discussion. >> >>Marnie >>Pittsburgh, PA >>At 12:05 AM 5/7/98 -0700, you wrote: >>>Dear Marnie, >>> >>>We are doing our youth conference theme around families which would >include >>>a segment on communication. I would like info on the games you >played and >>>tell me about that video. Do you know the name and what was the >video >>>about? Any specific information would be great. Thanks a lot. >>> >>>Laura in CA >>>Dale_Phillips@msn.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > >- > To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 00:30:55 -0600 From: "The Roberts" Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Help with a Mother's Day talk!!!! There is a good internet page that is LDS and you can type in a word and get several quotes and stories. The address is: http://www.xmission.com/~dkenison/lds/gtp/ try it out...I have really liked it. Liz from Utah - ---------- > From: BURT9999 > To: lds-yw@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Help with a Mother's Day talk!!!! > Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 9:05 PM > > Hi my name is Anna, I am the 2nd counselor in our ward's YW program and I am > helping one of my beehives, her name is Heidi, with a talk on Mother's for > this sunday. We are wondering if anyone out there had any ideas for good > subjects/thoughts/poems etc. . . > > Your help will be much appreciated!! I'll send you a good recipe for brownies > if you send me some good ideas!! > > Thanks!! > > Anna :> > West Jordan, UT > > - > To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 10:21:38 EDT From: rsburton@juno.com (Richard and Susan) Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Help with a Mother's Day talk!!!! Even if we don't have any wonderful ideas or poems, would you still post the recipe?? _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:23:05 -0400 From: kla4cm@juno.com (Karen Anderson) Subject: (lds-yw) Re: your lds/yw entry On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:24:40 -0700 Greg & Mary Ann Stephens writes: >A while back you sent an e-mail requesting information on a Beehive >Journal >I created. I am not sure if I responded to your request. If I didn't >please let me know. > >Mary Ann in Texas > Thanks Mary Ann for the Beehive Journal info ;-) Karen _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:01:38 EDT From: PopeBK Subject: Re: Re: (lds-yw) Help with a Mother's Day talk!!!! Liz, I tried the internet address you tpyed in and it doesn't work. Could you repost it. Thanks Jean - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:30:18 -0700 (PDT) From: AMY S LEAVITT Subject: (lds-yw) Re: Mother's DAy My friend just e-mailed me this - I got a kick out of it and I though in honor of Mother's Day I would post if for fun. Enjoy! MOTHER'S DICTIONARY AMNESIA: A condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again. BOTTLE: An opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2am too FEEDING DEFENSE: What you'd better have around de yard if you're going to let de children play outside. DROOLING: How teething babies wash their chins. DUMBWAITER: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert. FAMILY: The art of spacing your children the proper PLANNING distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster FEEDBACK: The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots. FULL NAME: What you call your child when you're mad at him. GRANDPARENTS: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right. HEARSAY: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word. IMPREGNABLE: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid. INDEPENDENT: How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say. LOOK OUT!: What it's too late for your child to do by the time you scream it PRENATAL: When your life was still somewhat your own. PREPARED: A contradiction in terms CHILDBIRTH PUDDLE: A small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it. SHOW OFF: A child who is more talented than yours. STERILIZE: What you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it STOREROOM: The distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything. TEMPER TANTRUMS: What you should keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children. TOP BUNK: Where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies. TWO-MINUTE: When the baby's face turns red and she begins to make those WARNING familiar grunting noises. VERBAL: Able to whine in words WEAKER SEX: The kind you have after the kids have worn you out. WHODUNIT: None of the kids that live in your house. WHOOPS: An exclamation that translates roughly into "get a sponge." Amy S. Leavitt Las Vegas, NV - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:08:24 EDT From: GO BIG W Subject: (lds-yw) Fwd: [GEMS] Teachings: Mothers and Children This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --part0_894658105_boundary Content-ID: <0_894658105@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I am attempting to forward a talk by Pres. Benson for help on the Mother's Day talk. This is from LDS gems for those who are not subscribers to that list. I have never forwarded e-mail before, so if this message comes without the talk, please forgive me and maybe someone else who is also an LDS gems subscriber will forward it properly. Diane - --part0_894658105_boundary Content-ID: <0_894658105@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from relay17.mx.aol.com (relay17.mail.aol.com [172.31.106.71]) by air09.mail.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Fri, 08 May 1998 10:55:05 -0400 Received: from lists.xmission.com (lists.xmission.com [198.60.22.7]) by relay17.mx.aol.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with SMTP id KAA24635; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:54:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from domo by lists.xmission.com with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0yXmVl-0006j8-00; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:44:25 -0600 Received: from (mail.xmission.com) [198.60.22.22] by lists.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0yXmVj-0006j2-00; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:44:23 -0600 Received: from xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2] (dkenison) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yXmVj-0002BC-00; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:44:23 -0600 Received: from localhost (dkenison@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id GAA03098 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:44:21 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 06:44:20 -0600 (MDT) From: David Kenison To: lds-gems@xmission.xmission.com Subject: [GEMS] Teachings: Mothers and Children Message-ID: Sender: owner-lds-gems@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: lds-gems-owner@lists.xmission.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Ten Ways to Spend Time with Children President Ezra Taft Benson - --------------------------------------- Mothers in Zion, your God-given roles are so vital to your own exaltation and to the salvation and exaltation of your family. A child needs a mother more than all the things money can buy. Spending time with your children is the greatest gift of all. With love in my heart for the mothers in Zion, I would like to suggest ten specific ways our mothers may spend effective time with their children. BE AT THE CROSSROADS. First, take time to always be at the crossroads when your children are either coming or going -- when they leave and return from school, when they leave and return from dates, when they bring friends home. Be there at the crossroads whether your children are six or sixteen. In Proverbs we read: "A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame" (Proverbs 29:15). Among the greatest concerns in our society are the millions of latchkey children who come home daily to empty houses, unsupervised by working parents. BE A REAL FRIEND. Second, mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, play with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unrushed one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children. READ TO YOUR CHILDREN. Third, mothers, take time to read to your children. Starting from the cradle, read to your sons and daughters. Remember what the poet said: You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -- I had a mother who read to me. (Strickland Gillilan, "The Reading Mother.") You will plant a love for good literature and a real love for the scriptures if you will read to your children regularly. PRAY WITH YOUR CHILDREN. Fourth, take time to pray with your children. Family prayers, under the direction of the father, should be held morning and night. Have your children feel of your faith as you call down the blessings of heaven upon them. Paraphrasing the word of James: "The ... fervent prayer of a righteous [mother] availeth much" (James 5:16). Have your children participate in family and personal prayers, and rejoice in their sweet utterances to their Father in Heaven. HAVE WEEKLY HOME EVENINGS. Fifth, take time to have a meaningful weekly home evening. With your husband presiding, participate in a spiritual and an uplifting home evening each week. Have your children actively involved. Teach them correct principles. Make this one of your great family traditions. Remember the marvelous promise made by President Joseph F. Smith when home evenings were first introduced to the Church: "If the Saints obey this counsel, we promise that great blessings will result. Love at home and obedience to parents will increase. Faith will be developed in the hearts of the youth of Israel, and they will gain power to combat the evil influences and temptations which beset them" (James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6 vols. [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1965-65], 4:339). This wonderful promise is still in effect today. BE TOGETHER AT MEALTIMES. Sixth, take time to be together at mealtimes as often as possible. This is a challenge as the children get older and lives get busier. But happy conversation, sharing of the day's plans and activities, and special teaching moments occur at mealtime because mothers and fathers and children work at it. READ SCRIPTURES DAILY. Seventh, take time daily to read the scriptures together as a family. Individual scripture reading is important, but family scripture reading is vital. Reading the Book of Mormon together as a family will especially bring increased spirituality into your home and will give both parents and children the power to resist temptation and to have the Holy Ghost as their constant companion. I promise you that the Book of Mormon will change the lives of your family. DO THINGS AS A FAMILY. Eighth, take time to do things as a family. Make family outings and picnics and birthday celebrations and trips special times and memory builders. Whenever possible, attend, as a family, events where one of the family members is involved, such as a school play, a ball game, a talk, a recital. Attend Church meetings together and sit together as a family when you can. Mothers who help families pray and play together will stay together and will bless children's lives forever. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN. Ninth, mothers, take time to teach your children. Catch the teaching moments. This can be done anytime during the day -- at mealtime, in casual settings, or at special sit-down times together, at the foot of the bed at the end of the day, or during an early-morning walk together. Mothers, you are your children's best teacher. Don't shift this precious responsibility to day-care centers or baby-sitters. A mother's love and prayerful concern for her children are her most important ingredients in teaching her own. Teach children gospel principles. Teach them it pays to be good. Teach them there is no safety in sin. Teach them a love for the gospel of Jesus Christ and a testimony of its divinity. Teach your sons and daughters modesty, and teach them to respect manhood and womanhood. Teach your children sexual purity, proper dating standards, temple marriage, missionary service, and the importance of accepting and magnifying Church callings. Teach them a love for work and the value of a good education. Teach them the importance of the right kind of entertainment, including appropriate movies and videos and music and books and magazines. Discuss the evils of pornography and drugs, and teach them the value of living the clean life. Yes, mothers, teach your children the gospel in your home, at your own fireside. This is the most effective teaching that your children will ever receive. This is the Lord's way of teaching. The Church cannot teach like you can. The school cannot. The day-care center cannot. But you can, and the Lord will sustain you. Your children will remember your teachings forever, and when they are old, they will not depart from them. They will call you blessed -- their truly angel mother. Mothers, this kind of heavenly, motherly teaching takes time -- lots of time. It cannot be done effectively part-time. It must be done all the time in order to save and exalt your children. This is your divine calling. TRULY LOVE YOUR CHILDREN. Tenth and finally, mothers, take the time to truly love your children. A mother's unqualified love approaches Christlike love. Here is a beautiful tribute by a son to his mother: "I don't remember much about her views of voting nor her social prestige; and what her ideas on child training, diet, and eugenics were, I cannot recall. The main thing that sifts back to me now through the thick undergrowth of years is that she loved me. She liked to lie on the grass with me and tell stories, or to run and hide with us children. She was always hugging me. And I liked it. She had a sunny face. To me it was like God, and all the beatitudes saints tell of Him. And sing! Of all the sensations pleasurable to my life nothing can compare with the rapture of crawling up into her lap and going to sleep while she swung to and fro in her rocking chair and sang. Thinking of this, I wonder if the woman of today, with all her tremendous notions and plans, realizes what an almighty factor she is in shaping of her child for weal or woe. I wonder if she realizes how much sheer love and attention count for in a child's life." Mothers, your teenage children also need that same kind of love and attention. It seems easier for mothers and fathers to express and show their love to their children when they are young, but more difficult when they are older. Work at this prayerfully. There need be no generation gap. And the key is love. Our young people need love and attention, not indulgence. They need empathy and understanding, not indifference from mothers and fathers. They need the parents' time. A mother's kindly teachings and her love for and confidence in a teenage son or daughter can literally save them from a wicked world. (From address given at a "Fireside for Parents," 22 Feb 1987) - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gems from the Teachings of the Prophets - a series made available on the Internet. You can receive the series by subscribing to the LDS-GEMS mailing list (send mail to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "subscribe lds-gems" (without quotes) in the message body). LDS-Gems archive: http://www.xmission.com/~dkenison/lds/gems/ Suggestions and contributions to the series are welcome! David Kenison, Orem, Utah - dkenison@xmission.com - --part0_894658105_boundary-- - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 16:43:50 EDT From: judypickett@juno.com (Judy L. Pickett) Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Help with a Mother's Day talk!!!! Hi Anna, Here's some of my favorite mother's quotes. Also, my all time favorite talk about mothers was Conference April 1997 (May 1997 Ensign) Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. One more idea -- the best mother's day talk I ever heard was one in which the speaker wrote a letter to her mother and then read the letter, she included general "stuff" about mothers but also some real personal items. It brought the topic home to everyone listening. Here's the quotes: The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral-a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body . . . The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in Gods creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature. God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation . . . What on God's good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother? --Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty WHEN THE GOOD LORD CREATED MOTHERS When the good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said, "you're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And, the Lord said, "have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic; have 180 moveable parts. . . all replaceable; run on nervous energy and leftovers; have a lap that disappears when she stands up; a kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair; and six pairs of hands." The angel shook her head slowly and said, "six pairs of hands. . .no way." "It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord. "It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have." "That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. The Lord nodded. "One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in the front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say, 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word." "Lord," said the angel, touching His sleeve gently, "Come to bed. Tomorrow. . . " "I can't," said the Lord, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick. . . can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger. . . and can get a 9-year-old to stand under a shower." The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighted. "But tough!" said the Lord excitedly. "You cannot imagine what this mother can do or endure." "Can it think?" "Not only think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator. Finally the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You, You were trying to put too much into this model." "It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear." "What's it for?" "It's for joy, sadness disappointment, pain, loneliness and pride." "You are a genius," said the angel. The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there." ---Erma Bombeck Hope these can help. Judy On Thu, 7 May 1998 23:05:44 EDT BURT9999 writes: >Hi my name is Anna, I am the 2nd counselor in our ward's YW program >and I am >helping one of my beehives, her name is Heidi, with a talk on Mother's >for >this sunday. We are wondering if anyone out there had any ideas for >good >subjects/thoughts/poems etc. . . > >Your help will be much appreciated!! I'll send you a good recipe for >brownies >if you send me some good ideas!! > >Thanks!! > >Anna :> >West Jordan, UT _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:13:37 -0500 From: "Denise Nix" Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Fwd: [GEMS] Teachings: Mothers and Children Diane...It came through just fine...thanks for sharing it! Dee - ---------- > From: GO BIG W > To: lds-yw@lists.xmission.com > Subject: (lds-yw) Fwd: [GEMS] Teachings: Mothers and Children > Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 3:08 PM > > I am attempting to forward a talk by Pres. Benson for help on the Mother's Day > talk. This is from LDS gems for those who are not subscribers to that list. > I have never forwarded e-mail before, so if this message comes without the > talk, please forgive me and maybe someone else who is also an LDS gems > subscriber will forward it properly. > > Diane > - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 07:52:03 -0700 From: Judy Sumsion Subject: Re: (lds-yw) Help with a Mother's Day talk!!!! Yes, post a good recipe! Richard and Susan wrote: > Even if we don't have any wonderful ideas or poems, would you still post > the recipe?? > > _____________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com > Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > - > To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 13:51:54 -0700 From: jeanius1@juno.com Subject: (lds-yw) Mothers "Biology is the least of what makes a mother." -Oprah Winfrey "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" -Milton Berle "The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother." -Napoleon Bonaparte "It's odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet the man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him." -Robertson Davies "Men are what their mothers made them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby; Chronologically, physically and spiritually, they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person." -Susan Cheever "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular." -Robert Frost "Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against...they can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that." -Golda Meir "By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was -- indulgent, never. Kind yes -- permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to the plows and pushed like heck." -Maya Angelou "Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live." -Lillian Helman "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." -Robert Frost "My mother was an authority on pigsties. 'This is the worst looking pig sty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up now.'" -Bill Cosby "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." -Calvin Trillin "Mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I'm real ambivalent about working mothers. Those of us who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of 'go out and fulfill your dreams' and 'be everything you were meant to be.' But at the same time, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren." -Erma Bombeck "I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future." -Anna Quindlen "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis "There were 12 kids in my family, and my mother's idea of liberation was to get out of the kitchen." -George Burns "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." -Jewish proverb _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - To unsubscribe to lds-yw, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe lds-yw" in the body of the message. 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