Darren Schmidt- Making FHE & Scriptures more meaningful

Scripture Study-

What are the similarities between tooth brushing & scripture study

How do you know when you're done brushing your teeth?  the tingly feeling
What would happen if we brush our teeth once a week?

Pres. Hinckley says that it will be painful at times.

Scripture Study-

• A convenient and scheduled time
• Get them there each with scriptures
• Variety places, variety methods (pick story out of reader, come with a scripture that has touched you this week)
• crowd control person
• begin with a hymn
• Study the Scriptures (Joshua 1:8)

Joshua 1:8

* Book of the Law shall not Depart out of thy mouth

*Thou Shalt Meditate thereon Day & Night

*That thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein.

Ask inspired questions...

• Did Joseph do the right thing to ask God?
• What do we learn from the Prophet Joseph Smith's experience?
• Does Jesus Care about us?
• When have you felt the Saviors love?

Family Home Evenings

• Have faith in them
• Of the Highest Quality
• Make lessons a Matter of Pondering and Prayer
• Children "Anxiously Engaged"
• Lots of Variety
• Inspired Lessons and Invitations
• Fun

Beverly Hyatt Neville- Understanding Nutrient Density and Satiety

5 different types of hungers

Fullness
Energy
Balance- blood sugar
Goal
Habit

Fullness-

She's been a dietitian for 36 years.

Obesity has grown drastically in the last 20 years.   The root of obesity crisis is not genetic, it is the social & cultural environment.

Hunger

• Lacking food
• Desire to eat
• Weakened by lack of food
• Craving, strong desire

Satiety

• State of being full
• Missing in most weight loss plans

Fasting

• Purposeful abstinence from food
• Weight loss method, not proven successful for long-term
• Adds spiritual dimension to physical cycle of eating and resting
• Newer research on health benefits (routine & periodic)

Benefits of Fasting

• Feel real hunger
• Sympathize with starving people
• Appreciate physical appetites
• Increase gratitude for food
• Serve constructively with food/money not used
• Dr. Ben Horne, IHC: less heart disease, less diabetes, lower cholesterol

Volumetirics Eating Plan-

Eatrightamerica.com

Nutrient Density Chart

Michael Wilcox- Solomon- A Time for Everything: Discovering the Fulfilled Life

Certain chapters that teach us how to live, what the purpose of life and are ennobling.

3 out of the 4 are from Joseph Smith-


Ecclesiatis-  See notes made in Study Notebook.  He went through the whole chapter.

Solomon- What is the fulfillment of life?
Solomon is coming to the end of life.  He's had a lot of wisdom, wealth.  Most people aren't going to have what he had.  He pretty much had it all, and he's going to tell us where happiness is.

Don't think

Darren Schmidt- Helping Children Become Spiritually Led

So much of what we have to do has to be inspired.

Be an effective parent- pray A LOT, so you can be in the right place and right time to help them throughout time and all eternity.

Pres. Joseph Fielding Smith "The spirit of God speaking

Julie Beck- "The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life."

1.  Teach Them About the Holy Ghost
- Peacock feather
-Products, What products would you buy 4.0 candies, TonsOFriends powder?  Is the Holy Ghost a product
- Pres. Packer  Story of describing salt

2.  Take them places where the Spirit is
- temple grounds

John 1- Men get to go to Jesus' house.
"If you knew where Jesus lived, how often would you go there?"  Take them to temple and show "House of the Lord"

-Do your own pioneer trek, Martin's Cove Wyoming

-Church sites, Visitor Centers

- Pageant Trips, Family Firesides/Devotionals

-Your own family challenges-
Book of Mormon Challenges,
Jesus the Christ,
Bean Jar (every time you're going to lose your temper put a bean in the jar have a treat when jar is full)

-Family Service Projects

-Do Missionary Work

3.  Give them Opportunities to Share and Testify

-Everyone Share a scripture that has touched them this week
-Share your favorite scripture study
-Did anyone get a prompting today?
-Did anyone get an answer to a prayer today?
- Did anyone recognize the hand of the Lord today or tender mercy?
-Did anyone have a chance to help someone today

Jacob 7-

Sharem

The gift of the Holy Spirit adapts itself to all these organs or attributes. It quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands and purifies all the natural passions and affections, and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation and social feeling. It develops and invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, invigorates and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being.

(Parley P. Pratt, p. 101-102 “Key to the Science of Theology”)

Michael Allred- Seeking Spiritual Gifts

Miriam questioned Moses, when he took a 2nd wife, and questioned him and said she had the gift too.  God reprimanded her and she was cast out because she thought she was equal because she had the same Gift as Moses, but she didn't realize that the office is greater than the gift itself.


Prophet has all the gifts.

- We need to stand with the office so the gift will stand with us.
- Our strength (gifts) can even be our weakness-  We need to be careful that our gifts don't lead us into

What are the gifts of the Spirit that serve as protectants

Gift of Discernment
Gift of Prophecy
Gift of Humility
Gift of Tolerance

Engaging, fun speaker, but the talk didn't fit the subject.  Felt like it was all about apostasy.

Grateful for Trials

Yesterday I was home sick from church and spent the day working on genealogy while I watched conference talks and BYU TV.  One of the things I watched was a show called Inspiring Lives, Kim: Vertically Challenged.  It was about a girl who was born with legs that wouldn't straighten and had to go through lots of surgeries and treatments to help her be able to walk.  At some point her spine was growing in a way that was interfering with her ability to breathe and they had to do a surgery to correct it, but it left her not being able to grow any more, so she's only 3' 8".  She was a very persistent girl and practiced walking and was able to walk despite the prediction that she wouldn't ever be able to.  When she was 6 her class was having a jump rope competition and she insisted she would learn.  She practiced for weeks and was able to jump rope much longer than most of us could.



Through all of her surgeries, struggles & disappointments, Kim was always full of faith, gratitude & joy.  She inspired all those around her.  She was very popular and even was chosen as Homecoming Queen, because everyone truly admired her spirit.  She had a way of uplifting everyone around her.

The thing that inspired me the most about Kim was her Spirit.  It wasn't just that she was determined and dedicated.  In listening to her that isn't even a quality that you would think she had.  But she radiated love, compassion, caring, kindness, & joy.  You can tell that the trials that she had been through had truly helped mold her into someone full of charity.  It was through her trials that these things were brought out in her. 

Seeing how Kim's trials changed her into this beautiful, amazing spirit, made me look at my trials differently.  For the first time in my life I truly feel grateful for my trials.  In stead of a curse, they feel like a blessing from a loving Heavenly Father to help me develop the same characteristics that Kim has.  I can now picture being in the pre-mortal world and being truly happy about being able to experience the difficult trials here on earth.  I think perhaps we could truly see the full glory of the end result and that just makes the trials beautiful as well.

Remembering the Sacrament

i was preparing to teach my lesson in relief society on the sacrament.  as i was reading about the last supper, i began to ponder about what it was like for th savior.  his heart must have been heavy jnowing that he didnt have much time left to be with the apostles.  he would have to leave these men he loved dearly who in many ways were struggling to understand his teachings.  he knew that they didnt remember their life before they came to earth.  its strange that we all existed for thousands of years and yet we remember  nothing.  we dont remember the council in heaven.  we dont remember our heavenly parents.  we dont remember our intimate relationship with our savior. not only did the apostles not remember their lives in the spirit world, but the savior knew that they would  struggle to remmber him once he was gone.