Living Life and Loving It
Beehives Kansas City Missouri First Ward, Kansas City Missouri Stake April 2012
For the Young Women’s Lesson number 6 “Finding Joy Now” I made handouts for each girl:
Handout for Lesson 6 Finding Joy Now
Finding "Joy" Now handout.
Nativity
A great Christmas Program is the Vignette called; Mary, Mary, Mary. It is about the mother of Christ. There are three Mary’s; one the young Mary when she finds out she is to have the Christ Child. The second is the mother Mary, a new mother, pondering how she is to raise Jesus and the final Mary is older Mary wondering how it is her son, is the Savior to the world. It is the nativity story told from a fresh perspective, from the viewpoint of the mother of Jesus the Savior. It has every mother’s worry’s and every mother’s concerns, but it is the mother of Christ our Savior. This vignette evolved over several years, evolved with each performance until it evolved to this moving story of Jesus Christ and his birth, his life and his crucifixion through the eyes of his mother, as only a mother could tell the story. I am glad to share this story with everyone. Please make sure that credit is given to the author; Shelley Smith Beatty.
Mary Mary Mary (.doc format) revised 2017
Mary Mary Mary (.pdf format) revised 2017
Please leave your comments and let me know if you use the program.
Mary, Mary, Mary A Christmas Program
Beaverton Ward, Beaverton Oregon Stake did the Mary, Mary, Mary program for a special Relief Society Christmas Program. They did a shortened version of the script (only about 10 minutes total). It was edited by their Relief Society President Lynn Stephens. In Sister Stephens own words, “Today at our Christmas Breakfast, three sisters performed the shortened version of MARY, MARY, MARY. It was so loved and touching…the 3 perspectives were so unique, engaging, & insightful! ”
Thank you for sharing with us!
Here are the links to their shortened version:
YOUNG MARY (shortened version)
NEW MOTHER MARY (shortened version)
OLDER MARY (shortened version)
Another idea for a Christmas lesson:
Link to my new Christmas Program idea with favorite Christmas stories.
and another set of Christmas Stories can be found here!
treasure!
(updated version)Like a twinkie the good stuff is inside!I used this idea years ago for a Young Women’s activity and decided to resurrect it for my lesson Sunday for the Beehives. The lesson was on scripture study and I wanted to emphasize studying and searching the scriptures, not just reading but really searching and pondering (studying) the scriptures. As I was preparing the lesson I was surprised to find very similar ideas on the internet. Having made mine up before there was an internet I was surprised to see how similar mine and the internet versions were in content. I concluded either my version, having been shared years ago was shared and shared again and found its way to the internet or creative minds often come up with very similar ideas. It doesn’t really matter but I thought I would share my abbreviated version (shortened due to the lesson time being less than the time of the original activity was years ago). I used the theme of a treasure hunt. Clues were given. Download the clues here. Each clue was a scripture. The girls had to figure out where the next clue could be found by reading the scripture given in the clue just found. Download the clues and answers to clues (placement of all clues) here (word document format-find in your downloads), or Scripture-treasure-hunt pdf format. The treasure was found wrapped in a pirate bandana. It was the small pocket version of the Book of Mormon (item number 83297000), ordered from the Church’s online store and a Twinkie. The twinkie was to remind the girls that if you don’t open and read it, the Book of Mormon is just another book, because like a twinkie the “best” stuff is inside.
This poster was on the blackboard.
Treasure Hunt Scripture Search
Mormonad Buried Treasure
Mormonad “Dig In.”
“Attention getter” on table- chocolate and bubble gums coins “treasure”.
Treasure Map with first clue.
Clue #4 found in the oven….”D & C 133: 4 ‘that shall burn as an oven'”
Pirate Treasure
Like a twinkie the good stuff is inside!
Other great Mutual Activities:
Johnny Lingo LDS Young Women Mutual Activity “Johnny Lingo” fulfills Personal Progress Value Individual Worth