Moses 1:39 Scripture Mastery

Moses 1:39 says, 

"For behold this is my work and my glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man."

I like this scripture because God wants us to have eternal life with him.

How can you assist God in His work?
   I can assist God by being a missionary and serving others. By serving others I am also in the service of God (Mosiah 2:17).  If I teach the gospel to others and try to be a missionary, I will bring others closer to Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father.

How can you help others seek eternal life?
 I can help others seek eternal life by teaching them about eternal life. Eternal life sounds nice to me. You will be able to be with Jesus and Heavenly Father forever in a wonderful and beautiful world. Sometimes this is hard to even think possible. I can help other understand this and teach them about the blessing it will be to follow God in this life.

I took this picture a few days ago.  If you have any questions or comments, feel free to share them.

The completion of Personal Progress

Well, I have completed Personal Progress!!  It has been an amazing experience. I am so happy that I finished it. I finished it a couple of days ago.  The final thing that I had to do, was read the Book of Mormon.

My medallion!

I LOVED reading the Book of Mormon. My favorite part of the Book of Mormon was when Jesus Christ comes to America to visit the people.  I am grateful for his example. When he was in America he healed the sick, the blind, the dumb, the deaf, the lame. He also blessed all of the little children.

I encourage anyone and everyone to read the Book of Mormon with a prayer in there hearts. The Book of Mormon is on of the most true books ever.

Although, I have completed Personal Progress, I am going to be working on my Honor Bee. Honor Bee is optional. The requirements to complete it are: Read the Book of Mormon, and do 40 hours of service. I can't wait until I finish that! If you are interested in reading the Book of Mormon click here.

Individual Worth #1 and Good Works #6

                Hi! I am Panda and I just barely turned 12. I am so excited to finally be in Young Women. I really was excited to start because I was the last person in my class to turn 12.

                I have finished Individual Worth #1. In order to finish it I had to read Psalm 8:4-6, Jeremiah 1:5, John 13:34, Doctrine and Covenants 18:10, Abraham 3:22-23, and Joseph Smith History 1:1-20. Then I had to write in my journal on how those scriptures taught me that Heavenly Father knows, loves, and is mindful of me. How I know that my Heavenly Father loves me is that he helps me through my trials.

                I also finished Good Works #6. What you have to do is spend at least 3 hours giving service outside your family. I babysat a family with my sister, while the parents went out for free.  

                Well that’s all for now, see you later.

                                                                                -Panda

Divine Nature #7 - Peacemaker

Hey! For this experience I had to learn the definition of peacemaker.  I looked up scriptures to help me better understand what a peacemaker is. One of the scriptures I found was :    Matthew 5:9

Matt 5:9

I took this picture. Isn't it cool? I tried to be more of a peacemaker for two weeks. I prayed for help each day. I sometimes was hard, but it was worth it to keep the spirit in my home. 

Being a peacemaker is part of your divine nature because sometimes it is hard to be a peacemaker and Christ was a peacemaker, so being a peacemaker is being more Christlike.

That's all for now! See ya! 

Divine Nature 6- Developing Divine Qualities

I recently finished Divine Nature #6. For this you develop divine qualities. There were multiple scriptures that I read to help me know what Divine qualities I can develop. Some them I found in the scriptures are:

• Peacemaker
• Loving one another
• Joy
• Gentleness
• Long suffering
• Goodness
• Faith
• Forgiveness
• Charity
• Gentleness

One of my favorite scriptures I read was 1 John 4:2

" And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also." 

I like this scripture because it is saying that if you love God you love everyone, even your enemies. I tried to be more gentle for two weeks. I prayed for help and tried to keep the spirit with me.

 I  memorized this scripture, wrote on a piece of paper, and hung it up to remind me to love God. I challenge you to memorize it.

Well that's all for now. See you! 

2015 Theme- Embark in Service

Well it is a new year. This year I will try to be better at posting stuff. I can’t believe it is 2015!!!!

Doctrine and Covenants 4:2

Each year there is a mutual theme. The theme for last year was “Come unto Christ and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness…” Moroni 10:32.  This year’s theme is, “Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind, and strength that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.”  Doctrine and Covenants 4:2.  I like this theme. It makes me want to serve more.

Service can be something as simple as writing a letter. I love to serve. It makes me so happy. Here are some service ideas for you:

•   Write letters to friends, family, and people in the ward
•   Make cookies for neighbors, friends, or missionaries.
•   Smile
•   Hold the door open for someone
• Do Family History and take the names to the temple
• Be a friend
• Babysit someones kids for free while they go to temple

  I hope you will serve more this year. Service is a great thing. Well see you next time!

- Tiger!

Spiritual Gifts and Talents--Individual Worth Value Experience 7

I completed the Individual Worth Value Experience #7.

For this Value experience, I read the required scriptures, then I asked three people to tell me about some of the positive qualities the Lord has given me.

It was nice to read these letters!

God gave each and every one of us different and unique gifts. These are a few examples of gifts my church leader, my dad, and my friend told me I have: faith, happiness, confidence, being selfless, creativity, integrity, knowledge, and many more.

I can continue to develop these gifts by praying, keeping my standards and striving to choose the right. I can use my gifts to lift others up and to serve. I know I am a daughter of God and that he personal gave me special gifts. -
See ya! -

         

Temple Trip

My first trip to the temple.

For one of my mutual activities, we went to the Mesa, Arizona Temple. It was my first time to go to the temple.

The temple trip was really amazing. The Spirit was so strong inside. I especially liked the mural in the baptistry. When we got there, we waited for another youth group to catch up with their work. We got changed, then waited for our turn to do baptisms. It was very busy at the temple.

When all of us were done with the temple work, we went out to Dairy Queen and got ice cream! Even though eating ice cream was great, I loved going to the temple because I knew I was serving people who didn't have a chance to perform their own baptisms while on earth.You can read more about temple work here.

While doing this service, I felt really happy and nice on the inside. I could feel the Spirit. I will definitely go to the temple again. In fact, I would like to try to go to the temple as much as I possibly can.

Individual Worth Value Experience 1 and a Give-Away!

I finished Individual Worth 1. I had to read the following scriptures: Psalms 8:4-6; Jeremiah 1:5; John 13:34; Doctrine and Covenants 18:10; Abraham 3:22-23; and Joseph Smith History 1:1-20.

After, I had to write in my journal how those scriptures taught me that Heavenly Father knows me, loves me, and is mindful of me. This is what I wrote: Heavenly Father loves me because he teaches me with the scriptures and doesn't lie to me. He is mindful of me and wants me to love others. I know he is mindful of me because he sent me to a family with the priesthood and loving parents. He knows all so well because he created us all.

What did you learn from this value experience? How do you know that Heavenly Father is mindful of you? Does it make a difference to you knowing this?

I am also excited to announce that we are going to do another give- away. This time I am going to give - away a tie dye shirt.

This tie-dye shirt is hand-made by me...and if you notice, the colors I chose are red. I've been working on a lot of Individual Worth projects, so this is shirt goes along with that theme.

To enter the give-away, please comment below!

Additionally, you can email me telling me about your own Individual Worth Value Experience, and we will also post your experience here on the blog to add another "personal progress perspective."

The contest is open until Sunday August 11, 2013. A winner will be announced on August 12, 2013.

Oh...and the shirt is an adult medium. If this is too big, we also have a junior's large...but it is blue and red!
Thanks for stopping by! See you again!

- Tiger

Individual Worth Value Experience 2 - Patriarchal Blessings

Well today I have started my Personal Progress. There are eight values. They are: Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, Integrity, and Virtue. I am starting on Individual Worth.

My first day in Young Womens...My personal progress books...and my new YW torch necklace.

In Personal Progress there are required value experiences and after you finish six of those you do a value project. The value experience I am doing right now is to learn the importance of patriarchal blessings (Individual Worth value experience #2).

Patriarchal blessings are given because they

"declare your lineage in the house of Israel and contains personal counsel from the Lord to you." - True to Faith page 111

This means you will receive counsel or direction from the Lord to you personally and will tell you which tribe of Israel you are in.

You receive your patriarchal blessing from an ordained patriarch in your stake.

President Thomas S. Monson refers to our patriarchal blessings as

"A Liahona of light." - see his conference talk here

Your bishop and parents will help you decide when the right time comes to receive a patriarchal blessing.

Sister Julie B. Beck said:

"When you understand the meaning and purpose of a patriarchal blessing and have a sincere desire to do the work of the Lord, you should be mature enough to receive your blessing….. It is important to fast and pray before your blessing so your spirit is humble and teachable. Your personal preparation is very important." - Julie B. Beck

I haven't received my patriarchal blessing , but I will prepare for when I receive one. Have you received your patriarchal blessing? When did you receive it? How has it been a blessing in your life?

See you!

Oh...and don't forget about our give-away!