Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I have some great handouts that I will post on my Visiting Teaching Surprise blog that go along with blogging, which is what you are doing right now. I mentioned in an earlier post that I am doing a little "Creation Station" in the Alpine Stake Home, Family, and Personal Enrichment in about a week or so. I just turned in my handouts that will be put on a blog that they are creating for their sisters to download their own handouts instead of printing thousands of copies. Great idea huh??? Anyway...I spent so many hours working on my handouts that I thought I would share them with you. Who knows, you might be a blogger without a blog, so if you want to learn how to make and Ingeniously Incredible blog... just go to my other blog... once again it is called Visiting teaching Surprise located at http://visitingteachingsurprise.blogspot.com/ and you can download them too, and of course it is always for free. Enjoy! Love, Katie
February 2009 Visiting Teaching message
I thought I would give you all a head start for your Visiting Teaching in February. The new message is located at http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,2044-1-4737-1,00.html but you can always get it out of your Feb. 2009 Ensign as well. I like to have a copy on the Internet to print out and mark up then I can keep my Ensign neat and tidy for reading. One thing I like to do for Visiting Teaching is to print off copies for the sisters that I teach because inevitably one or more sister, or all of them have not gone out to give the message to those they teach. This is sort of a subtle reminder and putting the lesson into their hands gives them a gentle nudge to go get theirs done. See.... there is method to my madness. Anyway, I will be back with some cute ideas for the new month once Feb. hits, and so keep checking back for some great new ideas and handouts. Oh and if you have not done your visiting teaching for January...."Go Girl"... you have a few more days to get it done.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
I am continually reminded everywhere I go that there is a need for literacy among us. I love to learn for myself and I enjoy the wonderful finds of resources on the Internet. I am always amazed and understand the time and effort it must have taken to put these programs to help others on the Internet. I have added a new section to this blog, on the left hand column.... listing wonderful links to literacy. I hope you will take some time to visit these sites or at least those that interest you. Remember...."The Glory of God IS Intelligence!" All of us can find another area to become alittle more literate in. Enjoy!
If your Ward or Stake creates a blog or any of the organizations in your Ward or Stake creates a blog, please let me know in the comments section. I would like to be a resource for everyone to get ideas about what other Wards and Stakes all over the world are doing. Great ideas are worth sharing and since we are all working toward the same goal, let's share. Please let me know by clicking on "Comment" below and give me the link to the blog. I will post all the links on this blog, so everyone can enjoy each others great ideas! Thanks, and "Happy Blogging"!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
A GREAT IDEA FOR YOU! HOW ABOUT WARD RELIEF SOCIETY BLOGS?
I have been getting some feedback on this blog with regard to blogging and the most recent comment was from Debbie in Southern California. She said that her ward Relief Society was setting up a blog and asked me some questions about how to do it. WHAT A GREAT IDEA TO DO A RELIEF SOCIETY BLOG!!!! What a terrific way to get out information to your sisters including your monthly calendars, (go paperless and put everything on your blog & save printing costs for Enrichment treats...YUM!) Add upcoming events, announcements, and what about all those scrumptious recipes that are served in Enrichment meetings, ward dinners, or whenever? You could have all those recipes on that blog for sisters to click on, save to their own computers and print out for themselves. This could save so much time as well as money for all the copying that you now do. How about the great handouts from Sunday R.S. Lessons, or other handouts from Enrichment's?.... Post them on your blog for everyone to enjoy! The ideas for sharing great information and ideas are limitless by setting up your own Relief Society blogs. You know, appropriate blogging is not just for fun, but it is for literacy, learning, sharing and service as well and all of these things and more. Isn't that what Relief Society(ing) is all about?
When you get your own Ward's Relief Society blog set up, ( & FYI - you can set up a blog for free!!!) contact other wards who also have their blogs set up and add a link to theirs so you sisters can gleam the ideas of other wards. Make sure to add my blog link to your blogs so that your sisters can get some great ideas, tips and handouts that I make on a monthly basis to go along with their visiting teaching lessons. (http://visitingteachingtips.blogspot.com )
Another idea along with this is that maybe some of your ward sisters have their own blogs. Many LDS Women have great blogs that give service through their blogs for others to use. Add those links to your blog as well. It's sort of like LDS Women's inspiration, uniting through this new blogging technology... Sisters helping sisters from all over the world.
I really enjoy when LDS women throughout the world comment or contact me through my blog(s) with a nice comment, question or suggestion. It is great to see that the efforts I make on behalf of sharing my ideas, get noticed, used, and enjoyed in far away places. I am going to be doing a little teaching demo or as they call it "Creation Station" at a Stake Enrichment in Alpine, Utah in February, and my topic is on "Blogging." I have been in the process of collecting LDS women's blog links of interest to me to share at this event. So far I have collected 2 pages worth of blogs relating to Homemaking, food storage, emergency preparedness, Family Home Evening, Recipe blogs, Enrichment ideas, food preserving, gardening, Grains, and so forth. I love these creative blogs and I get so much good and useful information from them. I will have this list to pass out to the sisters who come to that Stake Enrichment as well as be able to show them my blogs and share my ideas about really good appropriate blogging. If you would like to pass on your appropriate blog link to me that has really useful infomrmation worth passing on to others, please email me at katie1956gauger@mindspring.com In February, I will post on this blog, the links that I have collected for you to enjoy too, so come back and get them and all the other fun things I will have created for you & I to use.
Have fun blogging!!!! Oh and there is a comment about blogging on at LDS.org on the Relief society page found at http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,4644-1,00.html listed under "A Call for young adult sisters". This was a suggestion for Young Women to do some service and then "BLOG" about it. I hate to say this but I am an "oldster", but I love to blog too! Hey other "OLDSTERS" catch the vision too! Let's blog together! Leave me a comment!
Sunday, January 4, 2009
I was reading at the LDS Church website, in particular under Relief Society and went to the page on "Visiting Teaching". I loved how it described what Visiting teaching is all about. I urge you to go to http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,4691-1,00.html and with humility...read. It should not only provide the vision of what you are suppose to do as a Visiting Teacher, but motivate you to be the very best Visiting Teacher you can be! You should catch the spirit of Visiting teaching!
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July 24th - Pioneer Day
Click on the picture and it will take you to the last post. Did you get your Visiting Teaching done by today? If not, just keep on trying, just like the pioneers. I would love to hear what you have learned from these wonderful Pioneer Women's stories. I know that I have learned alot about sacrifice, and persecutions of the early saints, and of a strong testimony that these Pioneers had to have to endure all that they did, and gave in establishing zion. Once again, I say, Blessed, honored Pioneer! If you would like to comment, please email me at ktgauger@gmail.com or click on the link and comment on the last story. Happy Pioneer Day! Love, Katie G.
July 22 -Maggie Anna Ferrell Orr
Copy and paste into your address bar and this will take you to the story of Maggie Anna Ferrell Orr, another of the wonderful Pioneering Women.
By now you should be alittle curious about your pioneer heritage.
Do you want to find out if you have Pioneer ancestry. This site is most useful to those who have had members of their family tree that belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the Mormon migration period of 1847-1868. By the way, the goal for this Pioneer Women Journey is about to reach it's end. You only have one more day to do your Visiting teaching, before the 24th of July, which was the goal. You still have time to push the proverbial handcart up the hill, so get out and get it done. Share a pioneer story with your sisters, and you have pleanty to choose from right on this site.
My broken wagon wheel, hath bit the dust!
Wo is me, I am so behind on my own treck of keeping up wonderful Pioneer women posts. Actually I have a great excuse, and almost made it when I realized how little I have to complain about. Ok, so I am going to tell you anyway. My air conditioning has been off for 6 days now, and I am having to live in my basement, though my computer in upstairs. It is ten degrees cooler in the basement, but my main floor has been up to 92 degrees inside my house. Wo is me.... and what do I have to moan about. I began thinking about the pioneers in their covered wagons, crossing the hot, hot prairie, and their only hope of relief from the blazing sun is the cool shade of a tree, or a stream, or night time if it cooled off enough for them to actually sleep. I have not slept well until I decided to go in the basement. Wo is me. What do I have to complain about. I have been so sick from the heat and a medication change that I have been nauseated all day long. So what do I do... hop in my car and go to Walgreens and get some acupressure wrist bands that took away some of my nausea. Wo is me, but what do I have to complain about.... the pioneer women suffered without any relief. If herbs didn't work for them, or if they didn't have access to them, they just suffered. I feel so blessed to live in this day and age where even if I have to be inconvienenced by having no air conditioning, I still can go in my basement, or hop in my car and turn up the air full blast, or just drive down to a store and walk around and shop, or even go to the pool and cool down that way. You know that poem.... "Father forgive me when I whine, I have two legs, the world is mine"? I have no reason to complain, but you still didn't get the updates on the Pioneer women because I am still too sick and hot to stay upstairs long enough to do them. Count this one as an update and count your blessings along with me. The wagon might be broke for a bit, but once the wheel is back on, the wagon will keep on rollin. Now, I am going to hurry back down stairs and try to replenish the sweat that is pouring off my face and body with gatorade. Don't give up on me, I will be back! Love, Katie G.
July 17 - Handmade by the Pioneers
July 16 - Margaret Alice McBride
....You know the drill... click on the photo and it will take you to the story of Margaret Alice McBride. Enjoy! Katie G
July 15 - Julia Ann Chapman Lee
This story is told through the eyes of Julia's husband. It is a short but touching story, all to familiar to Pioneers. Click on the image and you will be directed to the story.
July 14 - Louisa Miller Belleston
I thought it was important to realize that not all pioneers only traveled from Missiouri, Ohio or other Eastern States, but many were converted to the church and traveled from overseas. This story tells of the Church Emigration fund, and Louisa's family traveling first by boat and then on to Utah. Their travel took them 8 months to get there, with their fair share of challenges. Click on the picture and it will take you directly to the story.
July 13 - Mary Ann Payne
This is a cute little story about Mary Ann Payne that I found, and I know that you will enjoy reading about her. She is the top right photo. Click on the photo and it will direct you to the link that has the story. Enjoy!
July 12 - Margaret McNeil (Ballard)
Click on the picture of Margaret and you will be taken to the link that you can read about her.
July 11 - Jane Jenkins Howe
Please click on the photo to see the history of Jane Jenkins Howe entitled - A WIDOW SUPPORTING HER FAMILY
July 10 - Julia Anne Phippen Eldredge Evans
Click on the photo and it will take you to the link to read about Julia Anne Phippen Eldredge Evans
July 9 – Camilla Dorothy Jacobsen Corbett
Click on the photo and it will take you to the link to read about this amazing Pioneer woman
July 8 - Catherine Gougar Goodman
This is a short story of a non-Utah Pioneer woman, who was taken by the indians as a little girl, and to read the rest of the story, you will have to click on the picture and it will take you to the link you need.
July 7 - Elizabeth Case Miliam Wheeler
The life of this marvelous Pioneer woman can be found by clicking on the photo which will take you directly to the link. This woman is classic Mormon History as her story tells of her being apart of so many of the historical accounts in Nauvoo, Hauns Mill, handcart pioneers, and so much more. I found her story so interesting that I couldn't stop reading until it reached the end. It was also interesting to me that she was given 3 Patriarical blessings in her lifetime, and she was truely a wonderful woman. I know you will enjoy reading about her as I did. Love, Katie G.
July 5 - Ann Parker
Sorry I am so late posting this story, but click on the photo and it will take you to the link where her story will be told.
July 4 - Margaret Ann Howard McBride (My Ancestor)
I had to post about someone very special to me on this day. I chose one of my ancestors whose trek took her with the other ill fated pioneers of the Martin Handcart Company. I could not locate her photo, so I substituted one of her son's wives photos. Click on the photo and it will take you to the account given by two of her sons, of what she and her family dealt with after joining the church.
July 3 – Elizabeth Simpson Haigh Bradshaw
I hope that you are enjoying so far, the stories of these wonderful Pioneer women. I hope too that your testimony will strengthen as you read about those who came before us and the unimaginable things that they had to do to pioneer the way for us to have what we do in our wonderful church. My gratitude and love for them has deeply increased, and I would echo the words in the hymn..."Blessed, honored, Pioneer!" Click on the photo of Elizabeth and it will take you to her history and for more reading about Elizabeth, you can go to http://students.ou.edu/G/Erin.R.Ging-1/story3.html Also there is another account of Elizabeth found in a book that you can read by going to this link... http://books.google.com/books?id=rzkAcWtngX4C&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=BRADSHAW,+Elizabeth+Simpson+Haigh&source=bl&ots=UJEtgTZ4Sf&sig=2h_qWhKeYEiK6hM8ev95tiRuu2M&hl=en&ei=kHE-SpW4JpDosQOe94n0CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4
July 1st - Anne Eliza Leavitt Baker
Did you think I forgot? Actually my life became so hectic today, that I am just getting some time to make my first Pioneer woman post. I hope you will enjoy reading about these marvelous women who came before us. I hope that you can feel their courage and understand that we too have a purpose for living in our generation. We are the generation that lives to prepare for the second coming of Christ,though none of us know when that will be.... and with that I will just say... Keep your wagons rolling along in good works, do your Visiting Teaching, strengthen your sisters through your testimony and determination to get your visiting Teaching done. Click on the photo and it will take you to the link where you can read about our Anne, who is most likely the woman in the middle front of the photo, holding the baby.
A February Enrichment Idea
"The Hearts of Angels" dinner & program. Click on the picture and it will take you to where you can find the entire program written out. Once you get to the site which is my Visiting teaching surprise, make sure to scroll down a ways because there are alot of other great ideas, printables and handoust before you will find this wonderful "Angelic' program. Enjoy!
Enrichment Ideas Anyone?
I have also been enrichment leader from time to time as well as have been asked to do many projects for Enrichments. I am not sure if anyone would be interested in some of my ideas, but if you are, please leave me a comment and I will respond. One thing that relates to Visiting Teaching that I wanted to share is something I have taught for many years, and in fact my Daughter in her Park City ward just used this idea in their Super Saturday last week for the second time. It is Glass etching and it is really pretty easy and turns out to be a great project. The etching I do is etching glass casserole or platters with the name of the person who will receive this gift or for whomever is signed up for the class. I have given etched casserole dishes as wedding gifts and have taken many casseroles, rolls, cakes, and all kinds of goodies to people, and always get my dish back, because it has my name etched in it. Go to http://visitingteachingsurprise.blogspot.com/ to get instructions.
Gardening with Kids
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