tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609059070805593973.post5883556523314291414..comments2024-03-27T00:20:46.834-07:00Comments on Sofia's Primary Ideas: September 2016 LDS Primary Sharing Time Helps & IdeasSofia's Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757655354773987673noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609059070805593973.post-3809507718903148182016-09-23T19:26:50.365-07:002016-09-23T19:26:50.365-07:00Do you have a copy of the call you gave them?Do you have a copy of the call you gave them?Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15170149252178333829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-609059070805593973.post-24056406110137470452016-09-02T22:05:27.321-07:002016-09-02T22:05:27.321-07:00For week 1 sharing time, I enjoyed involving my ow...For week 1 sharing time, I enjoyed involving my own children showing a picture of a cousin who recently opened her mission call and is currently in the MTC. We showed a pic of her getting it out of the mailbox. We explained how it felt like a long time waiting for everyone who wanted to watch to be on a big group skype call later that evening. We waited because it is special I elaborated. A teacher shared her experience opening her mission call. I transitioned from that to talk about how important a mission call is, from the Prophet and that you could go anywhere the Lord needs you. We then had my children who are in a Spanish program read the "Scripture of the week" D&C 133:37 in Spanish. We had read it already in English. Two brothers were invited to do it in another language. One in Dutch because he joined the church in the Nederlands because missionaries visited him there. He later went on his mission to Taiwan. Another brother read it in Thai and showed the scripture's complex alphabet and complicated tone related meanings with the kids. He explained how the spirit helped him with a personal anecdote. We then pinned mission locations on a map as directed in the outline. To conclude, I explained how much I loved that they were excited to go wherever the Lord needed them to go on their mission. I announced that they didn't have to wait. The Lord wanted them here in their school, in their class, on their street and in their extracurricular activity (examples) specifically. Their parents had considered carefully where to live and where you should go to school. The Lord DID call them already to be member missionaries where they were. I showed them a 9x13 manila envelope. I explained that I had a call (not the real one they would get from the prophet when they were older), but one from me personally to serve as a member missionary reporting Monday morning. They were told that this was something they needed to wait and open when they got home with their parents and read together how to be member missionaries.<br /><br />It took only moments to customize and print each one. I did it at our family business so I'll admit I didn't worry about the expense of the manila envelopes which had been in a supply cabinet for years. It was a time crunch as I have 60 in my primary, but I recruited help in stuffing the envelopes in a pinch just by pulling my visiting teachers family out of the hall before church. So doable and I got a huge response from parents. Carrie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02644094029255260039noreply@blogger.com