Spring 2013 Auxiliary Leadership Training

     SPRING 2013 AUXILIARY LEADERSHIP TRAINING


 We would encourage everyone in the presidency and serving in primary to take the time to watch this wonderful broadcast. Click below and you can go right to it
2013 Auxiliary Training
We feel so blessed to have this so easily available to us. We are so grateful for the technology that lets us watch this over and over again, as it is filled with such wonderful council that we can apply to ourselves and to the primaries.

 In the meeting Sister Wixom says that there are only two requirements to serve in primary
1.) Love the Children
2.) Love the Lord

 I thought that was so wonderful, as sometimes it seems we get so caught up in the organization of primary. Sister Wixom acknowledged how hard it sometimes can be to find teachers, and truly can empathized with the troubles we can face at times, but then asked us to look out at our primary and focus on one child. She said " look into the face of that child, see the light in their eyes... See who they can become, and treat them like they are already that person."

 As Primary Presidents, Councillors and teachers we need to show the children the love of Jesus Christ by our actions, the way we speak, the way we talk and the way we teach. We want the children to feel the spirit in our primaries and we do that by providing a place were the spirit can reside. Thank you for your service throughout our stake

 Grande Praire Stake Primary Presidency
Dianne Carrell, Leanne Oakey, Marsha Armstrong & Meaghan Purnell

THE POWER OF A TEACHERS LOVE

Taken from the manual  "Teaching: No greater call"

LOVE SOFTENS HEARTS

A new teacher was having problems with some misbehaving class members. She sought advice from a member of the Sunday School presidency, and he suggested that she conduct an experiment. She was to select a disruptive class member and then show that person in five different ways that she cared about him or her. A few weeks later, the leader asked the teacher how she was doing. She reported that the person she had selected had stopped misbehaving, so she was in the process of selecting another class member. After two more weeks the leader inquired again. The teacher said that she was having difficulty finding someone to work with. When he asked her a third time, she told him that she had selected three different class members, one after another, and that when she started to show that she cared about them they had ceased being disruptive. In each case, love had softened a heart.

          The Power of a Teacher’s Love

As we show love for those we teach, they become more receptive to the Spirit. They become more enthusiastic about learning and more open to us and others in the group. Often, they awaken to a renewed sense of their eternal worth and a greater desire for righteousness.

The children in our primaries want to be loved. Pray and work with your primary to know their names and interest. A little bit of attention goes a long way for a little child. I know that as we invest our time & attention into these special spirits our primaries will be a more reverent place. 

Meridian Magazine - As a Child of God- Seventeen New Songs for Children - Meridian Magazine - LDS, Mormon and Latter-day Saint News and Views

This article by Janice Kapp Perry has some amazing inside to children's music and a taste of some of her new upcoming songs.  Enjoy


Meridian Magazine - As a Child of God- Seventeen New Songs for Children - Meridian Magazine - LDS, Mormon and Latter-day Saint News and Views

February 2012

Sisters;

Our present day computer technology is wonderful isn’t it? The church is using it more and more.

We need to become more familiar with our computers and the LDS sites.

For some of us it can be intimidating so we need to take one baby step at a time. You’ve already learned to turn on the computer and get onto our blog.

If you’re a slow learner like me and have the greatest fear of deleting or breaking something, take a deep breath, say a prayer and have some one sit beside you the first few times.

The opportunities of today’s computer technology are endless.

Take advantage of it in a positive way. Play with it, conquer your fears.

Hey I opened the blog to day on my own. Actually some one did suggest that I Google it.

I also found the Friend magazine and read several articles from it. The one that stands out most in my mind is the one written by Chad E. Phares, ”Always Ready.” This story not only sends a message to the children but also sends a simple but strong message to parents of how we all need to be prepared for life by reading our scriptures and praying daily and teaching and being an example to our children so they are able to make good choices each day.

I also found lds.org children’s lesson helps which is an excellent site. If you are not already familiar with it, it is a great site to check out.

Remember to view the training videos. You can Google them. Yahoo! Oh no that’s another search engine.

Speaking of search engines get on board and surf the Teaching No Greater Call site.(C-F)

I am grateful for my calling which has given me the opportunity and push to become more familiar with the technology provided for us. I know it is Heavenly Fathers way of getting the teachings of the Gospel to us and the world in a fast and convenient way.

Sisters I know the Gospel is true and that Heavenly Father and Jesus know and love us. Take time and find the church sites that the Lord has made available for our use. You will be blessed richly.

Marsha Armstrong

(click on the blue words to take you quickly to the webpages)

CHOOSE THE RIGHT 2012

Christmas has come and gone, the chaos of getting kids to their new classes and teachers with the right manuals has past! We have all received the new manuals and know that the theme for 2012 is "CHOOSE THE RIGHT". What a simple yet profound three words!

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn’t happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from. When God’s children live worthy of divine guidance they can become “free forever, knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted upon.” ^{1 James E. Faust}

What choices are we making in our primaries? Are the choices we make helping us to

be prepared, to know the manuals we have been given? Are our choices making our children

feel loved and the teachers feel appreciated? Are we as a presidency choosing to bring the

spirit into our primaries?

If we ponder these questions and pray for guidance from our Father in heaven we will be able

to find the answers we need. The church has also provided us with so much information, We as

a presidency URGE you to go online and watch the Training Videos, they have so much

valuable information in them, and are sure to be an amazing resource in helping deal with your

primaries. Another great resource for knowing the dates of upcoming events is on the LDS.org

website, under the stake directory, it has all the information on there for our stake.

You can also contact any of us in the Presidency at anytime with questions. We love and pray

for you and your primary children. We are excited about this new years theme, and cant wait

for the children to learn more about Choosing the Right!

The Coat: A Story of Charity

Enjoy this beautiful little video. Share it with your family and the children of your primary.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone.

Love from your Stake Primary Presidency

November 16, 2011

Christmas is coming fast. Sacrament Presentations are finished or in the final stages. I hope you have had a wonderful time with your children as they quoted scripture and sang the wonderful primary songs for their parents and ward/branch family.

Have taken the opportunity to get your primaries ready for the new year?

Planning Calendars...Budgets...Curriculum Orders

The church's website has all the information that you need for the upcoming year. If you have not contacted your Bishop concerning the curriculum order, please do so. Also you can go to the online store at lds.org and order what you need. Just check with your ward clerk.

Curriculum 2012- Primary

AGES 18 MONTHS–2 YEARS (NURSERY CLASS)

Behold Your Little Ones: Nursery Manual (37108)

AGE 3 (SUNBEAM CLASS)

Primary 1: I Am a Child of God (34969)

AGES 4–7 (CTR 4, 5, 6, AND 7 CLASSES)

Primary 2: Choose the Right A (34484)

AGES 8–11 (VALIANT 8, 9, 10, AND 11 CLASSES)

Primary 4: Book of Mormon (34594

AGES 3–11 (SHARING TIME) 2012 Outline for Sharing Time: Choose the Right (08710)

Other resources for all classes include the Church magazines; illustrated scripture readers; Gospel Art Book (06048 090); Children’s Songbook (35395); and Visual Aids Cutouts (individual sets 1–10).