Daughters in My Kingdom, Guardians of the Hearth, "There's No Place Like Home"

Daughters In My Kingdom— Chapter 9

"Guardians of the Hearth"

and

"There's No Place Like Home"

This is our Chalkboard in Relief Society.

Guardians of the Hearth— Chapter 9— Daughters In My Kingdom

Place posters up one at a time:

1.  Guardians of the Hearth

Introduction to Lesson

2.  There's No Place Like Home.  

Intro to the Proclamation  & Pg. 162 Glimpses of Heaven

3.  Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Outline of the Proclamation and Pg. 148, also tie in the Iron Rod to the Proclamation

4.  I'll Get You My Pretty

Pg. 157 WWII,  Pg. 159 and Pg. 158 Quote

5.  If I Only Had a Brain

Pg. 153, Overcoming Self Doubt, and Teaching Each Other

6.  Aunt Em, There's No Place Like Home

Pg. 154

Also quote from Sister Holland's talk about Mothers.  Adam called Eve "Mother" long before she had any children of her own., etc.

See Mother's Day Post last year

7.  Lions & Tigers & Bears, Oh My!

Pg. 156 Responsibilities, and Pg. 165 Final Quote.

8.  Final Picture of the 2nd Coming & Testimony

We happened to have one framed in our church library.  Can use the libraries big poster.

We had a basket with "The Family Proclamation" to hand out.

I borrowed some Red Sparkly Shoes from a friend.  So cute!

These are the printouts I used on the board.

Prints are 24" x 36".

Print at your local Blue Print place.  Approx. $1.80 a printout.

You can email them the file, and then pick it up.

Double Click on the image below, and then download.

We invited all of the sisters in from Primary and Young Women, so we wanted to hand out something

extra special.  We made muffins, and then put these bookmarks in to decorate the muffins.  We decided on no frosting- so the bookmarks could be saved easily.

We then decorated a rolling cart from the kitchen with a cute tablecloth, and arranged the muffins on 3 tier muffin stands with little chocolates also.  

Tip:  Bake muffins in non-stick pan, and place in the liner after they have been baked.

Link to aBakersPlace.com

Link to cupcake liners

Link to Dorothy diecut

We used this image to decorate a few muffins also, and the muffin tier.

This is also a cute link to "There's No Place Like Home" logo.

Technology Fireside Links

Tonight's fireside was on how to start using the Personal Video Conferencing for certain meetings, so as we can be with our families more, and have more time to actually live and share the gospel.  Time spent traveling long distances to attend a meeting can be reduced.

List of all videos available:
http://tech.lds.org/wiki/Instructional_screencasts

These are two of the videos they shared during the fireside:

Training Video 1

Training Video 2

We were also given the following list of different technology ways to learn and live the gospel.  A few of these were new me, so I thought I'd share the list.  Enjoy!  - Candi



Facebook:  13 Official LDS Facebook Pages (or more)

YouTube:  16 Official LDS YouTube channels (or more)



Bible Videos:  Apple Application    (Love this one!)

LDS Mobile Gospel Library Project

LDS Scripture Mastery:  Apple Application    (Love this one too!)

Joseph Smith Papers

Missionaries, Senior, Church-Service, and Family Search Missionary

Family Search Indexing

Family Search Indexing:  Apple Application

Discover Your Family History



LDS Youth

LDS Tools    (Love this one!)

Personal Video Conferencing

Replacing the darkness with light



Online Store

LDS Employment Resource Service (LDS Jobs)

Provident Living

Magazines



Mormon Channel (LDS Meetinghouses)

BYU TV


And of course the most popular ones:
www.lds.org    
www.mormon.org    
www.jesuschrist.lds.org

170th Relief Society Birthday Video

Compliments of Sister Hawkshaw, with music by Bro. Hawkshaw.

We also had a Cake Decorating Demonstration by Sherline.

Click on the flyer below for tips on decorating cakes.

Shirlene's Buttercream Frosting Recipe

4 cups confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)

1 stick of butter

2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup heavy cream (or milk)

She used 3 batches of frosting to frost the basket cake that you see in the video.

*  If you keep frosting in the fridge a bit, you'll make nicer flowers.

My wish list to get after watching this demonstration:

Large Scraper.  Frosting seemed to go on really smoothly on the top and sides with this.

Turn-table.  Don't know how I ever frosted a cake without one.  After watching her, it was amazing!  It turns around as you frost the cake, make little decorations, whatever.  

Food Coloring.  Stick a toothpick in a few times to your color, and voila!

Many cool frosting tips, as well as the famous nail, used for making flowers.

In my case you need many so that when they go through the sink disposal, you can use a different one that is similar.  :)

Disposable frosting bags.  Totally worth it!

A butter knife is not going to do a good job.  You need a spatula without the teeth a knife has.

A really big tip.  She used this to frost the cake very quickly, and then the scraper (1st pix) to flatten it out.  It also can make cupcakes look cute very quickly, as well as large borders.

Cake board.  She butter creamed the cake, and then after it was frosted, she transfered it onto a cake board (made from smooth cardboard.)  

As always... isn't every hobby expensive!

Good thing there are 40% off coupons at Michaels!

And, now we see why this is my WISH list.

Now, I need to wish for a bigger kitchen to store them in.  ;)

Big thank you to everyone who participated in our 170th Relief Society Birthday Celebration!

Especially Sandy- for putting it all together, Sherline for teaching our class, Chris for filming it, and Portia for our tribute to Relief Society.  Thanks to our note taker too.  I already forgot so much of what Shirlene did, which I knew would happen.  Good thing we have a video!

Candi

Book of Mormon Reading Chart Bookmark w/ Christlike Attributes Checklist

Reading Chart 8 1/2 x 11 Handout

with Proclaim My Gospel – Christlike Attributes Checklist from Proclaim My Gospel on back.

For those who can't read the tiny print.

Spanish

Portuguese

Reading Chart 2 up – 8 1/2 x 11 Handout

with Proclaim My Gospel – Christlike Attributes Checklist from Proclaim My Gospel on back.

Fits better in Scriptures.

Can trim down to smaller size.

English

Spanish

Portuguese

Christmas Events 2011

First Presidency Christmas Devotional, December 4th, Sunday at 8:00pm EST.  To be broadcast from Temple Square in Salt Lake City, UT and viewed at the Boca Raton chapel or online at www.lds.org.  Music provided by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Relief Society Christmas Party “Feed My Sheep”, December 8th, Thursday at 7pm., BR Ward.

Christmas Concert, December 11th, Sunday at 6:30pm. Lite refreshments.  BR Ward Building

Ward Christmas Dinner Party, December 17th, Saturday at 6:30pm .  "Christmas through the eyes of prophets and artists", BR Ward Building.

Christmas Collection for Elder Missionaries.  Canned goods and toiletry items.  Bring 12/17 to Dinner party.

Christmas Sacrament Meeting, December 25th, Sunday at 9:00am – 10:10am (there will be no Sunday School, Primary, Priesthood or Relief Society meetings).

Giving Tree:  More info to come.



Here's our invitations:  3, to share with friends!

Ward Pass Along Cards Template

We'd like to share how to make your own Ward Pass Along Cards.  These go great with "Invitation Sunday", a Sunday service that is set aside specifically for someone visiting for the first time.   They also work great for sharing a map of where you go to church, or the mormon.org website.

  Download the large version of these images below, and edit them with your own church building and map in photoshop.  There are crop marks on the front side only for cutting.  Be sure to save your back page as Black & White to save some money on printing.  We printed ours on an 8.5 x 11, 80# Lynx Coverstock paper at a local laser printing shop.  Good luck!

Christ image was from the LDS.org Classic website, and the clock illustration was from MormonsMadeSimple.com.  

Invitation Sunday- Easter- Pass-along Cards

April 24th is not only Easter Sunday, it’s “Invitation Sunday,” meaning we are urged to INVITE everyone we can to join us in worshipping on that day.

Below is a copy of our Ward Pass-along Cards. You can print one out, or email it to a friend. It has a map to our building, and starting times of meetings. Let's Grow the Ward!