One of my favorite Sundays is when the primary children present their program during sacrament meeting.
I melted into tears as I heard the dear, sweet children of my ward sing “How Firm a Foundation.”
What are some of your favorite moments of your ward’s primary program?
Now that the nation’s unemployment rate is at 10.2%, M* is doing its part to spur economic recovery by adding another blogger to our team.
Joyce Brinton Anderson previously guest posted at M*, sharing the story of her missionary Christmas in Bulgaria.
I’m betting that Ben Pratt knows Joyce (he seems to have some connection with all of our newer M* bloggers), but I’m sure he doesn’t know that Joyce’s uncle was my scoutmaster. Take that, Ben!
Welcome, Joyce!
[Cross Posted from Sixteen Small Stones]
Before I get into the tedious specifics, let me get right to the main announcement.
Daniel Bartholomew and I are very excited to introduce you to ScriptureLog.
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ScriptureLog
Scripturelog is a free, open source plugin for the popular WordPress blogging platform that turns WordPress into a collaborative online LDS scripture study journal.
The plugin installs volumes of scripture into WordPress as hierarchical, inter-linking pages of books, chapters, and verses. Once the pages are installed, you can use the built-in features of WordPress by yourself or in collaboration with others to read the scriptures, take notes, and discuss the gospel.
Joyce Brinton Anderson was kind enough to share the following missionary story with M*.
Joyce is a former high school social studies teacher, but is now working as Chief of Domestic Operations for the Anderson Family. She graduated from BYU with a “useful liberal arts” degree in International Relations, and has half a masters degree with no desire to ever finish what she started. She served a full time mission in Bulgaria as well. She and her husband teach the member missionary Sunday School class in their ward when they are not running after their almost-toddler son. In her “spare” time (haha) Joyce is a news/politics junkie, reads, tries to bake things without much suscess and dreams of going to England, Scotland and Ireland to see where her favorite BBC shows were filmed.
I spent one Christmas away from my family on a mission in Bulgaria. My companion, Sister Johnson and I, were really looking forward to this Christmas, our missionary Christmas. We’d planned to spend it with members of the Plovdiv Branch of the LDS Church and visiting less active members of the Branch, we were excited to have this time in Bulgaria and to have time to focus on the Savior. We even had an investigator coming to the branch Christmas party, which made us feel very good about our efforts of late.
Photo Credit: Pete Souza / The White House
A recent ABC News-Washington Post Poll shows only 45 percent of respondents approve of President Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan.
Forty-five percent now approve of the president’s handling of the situation, down by 10 points in a month, 15 points since August and 18 points from its peak last spring. His approval rating on Afghanistan has fallen farther than on any other issue in ABC News/Washington Post polls this year.
Click here for PDF with charts and questionnaire.
[Source: ABC News]
What do you think President Obama should do in Afghanistan?