March 12, 2020: Week 1 Leadership Academy
This week we will seek to
Open minds
Make connections
Be inspired
through the lens of Leadership Academy
as we study the principle of "Good families teach us how to have a good society"
as we study the principle of "Good families teach us how to have a good society"
What truths do you learn about how a good society functions as you study families? Think extended family as well...
How do the following attributes come into play?
Responsibility
Respect
Stewardship
The answers to these questions literally determine the success or failure of a society.
What is the Purpose of Family? video
Get out a new paper and start a new 5 column T-Chart for this month! Let's go!
How do the following attributes come into play?
Responsibility
Respect
Stewardship
The answers to these questions literally determine the success or failure of a society.
What is the Purpose of Family? video
Get out a new paper and start a new 5 column T-Chart for this month! Let's go!
OPEN YOUR MIND
Love Heals (22 sec)
MAKE CONNECTIONS!
1. Study the life of Marjorie Pay Hinckley (you can peruse "Small and Simple Things" by her if you can get it)
2. Look up the definition of "family" in the 1828 Webster Dictionary (available online if you don't have it at home...huge green book). Then come up with 2 or more scriptures or quotes from conference about what a family is. Share them in the comment section below this post! (This would make a great devotional one morning if it helps to do it together.)
3. Watch one or more of the following videos and pay attention to what tools help these families.
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MAKE CONNECTIONS!
1. As you saw examples of families and studied what they are, what connections can you make between a family and a society?
2. What did Marjorie Hinckley talk about or show that you want to do differently in your home?
BE INSPIRED!
Now do something with what you learned!
Now do something with what you learned!
1. Create something that shows what a family is and put it up somewhere in your house to inspire other people.
2. Come up with a plan of action to incorporate something that you learned about this week and do an experiment. Share with us how it went!
3. Consider your Youth Program goals, maybe particularly in the social area and think about how what we learned can inspire you. Maybe set a goal based upon what you learned.
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LOOKING AHEAD
Next week we are reading "Plain Girl" and discussing what it teaches how "good families teach us
how to have good societies."
We are reading "Eight Cousins" for our main book this month, to be discussed in four weeks.
how to have good societies."
We are reading "Eight Cousins" for our main book this month, to be discussed in four weeks.
You might want to start reading it soon.
Please consider getting it on audio if that is easier for you :D.
Also, I want to have an "elocution" moment on week 4 (that same week).
Please pick a scripture, poem, speech or lines from a play that you want to memorize and
give in front of the group to practice public speaking. Think about clarity of speech, volume, speed, etc as you practice reciting it. If it happens to be about family or society all the better! This can be done as a family, of course, or can be something that you memorized a long time ago. We look forward to hearing from you!
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**And if you have a LOT of time (or you can watch these on a Sunday) here is an old collection of "Family: Isn't It About Time?" that my kiddos love :D.
Here are some samplers:
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**And if you have a LOT of time (or you can watch these on a Sunday) here is an old collection of "Family: Isn't It About Time?" that my kiddos love :D.
Here are some samplers:
Potato Chip Trail
Miss the Bus
Bad Hair Day
This week's Come Follow Me fits in so well! The video at the end of this section contains many principles that apply to good families and in turn good societies.
ReplyDeleteThe Lord wants me to magnify my calling.
To Jacob, teaching the word of God was more than an assignment from his brother—it was an “errand from the Lord,” so he labored diligently to “magnify [his] office” (Jacob 1:17, 19). President Gordon B. Hinckley taught that we magnify our callings “as we serve with diligence, as we teach with faith and testimony, as we lift and strengthen and build convictions of righteousness in those whose lives we touch” (“Magnify Your Calling,” Ensign, May 1989, 47). Think about your own “[errands] from the Lord” as you read Jacob 1:6–8, 15–19 and 2:1–11. Why did Jacob serve so faithfully? What does his example inspire you to do to magnify your Church callings and your responsibilities at home?
See also “Rise to Your Call” (video, ChurchofJesusChrist.org).
- Lily
ReplyDeleteAlma 43:47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion.
3 Nephi 18:21 Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed.
It's interesting that so much things back then were focused on family, whereas in now days families are seen as a hindrance. But if you really think about it families are there to help us and strengthen us.
Piper: 1 Nephi 8:12 And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul with exceedingly great ajoy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit.
ReplyDelete3 Nephi 18:21 Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed.
Kai: "life is beautiful, it's about giving, it's about family."-Walt Disney
ReplyDelete"a happy family is but an early heaven." -George Bernard Shaw