Search results for: “what the smith boys said”

  • Book Review: Jacob’s Journal of Doom

    Julie M. Smith

    This guest review was written by Nathan Smith, age 11.

  • BMGD #31: Alma 43-52

    Julie M. Smith

  • Book of Mormon Midterm Answers Part 1

    Ben S.

    I posted the questions last week. It’s taken me much longer than I thought to hunt down my references/handouts/links, so I’m breaking the answers into two parts. 1) Nephi says several times that knowing “the things of the Jews” can help us understand Isaiah. Similarly, the “things of the Jews” can help us understand the…

  • BMGD #15 Mosiah 1-3

    Julie M. Smith

  • What Happened Last Thursday at Institute: l’Affair Botte Goes Local

    What Happened Last Thursday at Institute: l’Affair Botte Goes Local

    Ben S.

    (I’m jumping because of the Bott stuff, but will still put up my 2 posts on Genesis 2-4 and Creation/temples post.) Instead of beginning on the Flood on Thursday as planned, I decided to take 5 minutes to talk about the mark of Cain in Genesis 4, and the curse on Canaan in Genesis 9.…

  • Exploring Mormon Thought: Second Principles

    Exploring Mormon Thought: Second Principles

    Adam Miller

    In House of Prayer No. 2, Mark Richard relates the hip surgery he had in the sixties as a boy. He didn’t understand much about what was happening. His parents checked him into the hospital and then he was pretty much on his own.

  • BMGD #2: 1 Nephi 1-7

    Julie M. Smith

    Again, this isn’t a lesson. It is the notes from which I will prepare a lesson.  Sorry it is so long. (The rabbit trail of the week was related to the killing of Laban, but I don’t plan on discussing that with my class.)

  • BMGD #1: Introduction

    Julie M. Smith

    These are the notes from which I will create my Sunday School lesson. It is not a Sunday School lesson, unless your ward has Sunday School for five hours and a high tolerance for rabbit trails that happened to catch my interest.

  • Scouts, Again

    Julie M. Smith

    I know the relationship between the Church and BSA has been discussed to death in the bloggernacle, but I want to share two recent experiences anyway.

  • OT Lesson 9 Study Notes: Abraham 1; Genesis 15-17, 21-22

    Jim F.

    I repeat the reminder: these are notes for study rather than notes for a lesson. Of course study notes can help one prepare a lesson, but my intention is less to help teachers prepare lessons (though I have no objection whatever to them finding my notes useful for that purpose, if they do) than it…

  • Parents are people

    Kaimi Wenger

    It’s been a stressful time for us. My father in law had been battling leukemia for over a year, when he suddenly took a turn for the worse. FIL’s illness lasted a few more weeks, and he finally passed away. This has affected the family in a number of ways; most importantly for this post,…

  • Liveblogging Sunstone, Day 1

    Kaimi Wenger

    I’m going to be live(ish) blogging Sunstone, at least some. The level of effectiveness will depend on a lot of factors, including access to wireless (which seems to be a little spotty). If you’re here (or just here in spirit), please weigh in in comments with your own thoughts.

  • I was born in Sharon, Vermont

    David Grua

    Yesterday was Joseph Smith’s birthday. I wonder sometimes how important it is to us in the 21st century that he was born in Vermont, given that the narratives we use to discuss Joseph usually skip his birthplace altogether and fast forward to New York.

  • What Do Mormons Look Like?

    Paul Reeve

    In 1846 during the Mormon Exodus from Illinois, as the Saints were strung out in various camps across Iowa and farther west, Mormon Warren Foote went in search of a mill to grind some of his grain: “It is quite a curiosity for the inhabitants here to see a “Mormon,” he wrote.

  • Sunday – the latest book by Craig Harline

    Wilfried Decoo

    I’ll start this book review with two anecdotes of my own, from a Mormon ward in Belgium. Last Sunday, in church, the bishop’s sister told us that her little boys were so excited because they were looking forward to the swimming party in the afternoon. The bishop’s own family and the families of his siblings…

  • Wanted: Mormon Folk Songs

    Ardis E. Parshall

    I love Mormon folk songs.

  • Ned Desaules and the United Order – 2 of 2

    Ardis E. Parshall

    Ned also records the risks faced by children in that time and place: “Edwin King[’s] smallest boy accidentally fell in my well yesterday, & had a narrow escape at drowning. Bro. Hammond fished him out.”

  • The Life and Times of Carol Armga

    Julie M. Smith

    I’ll introduce our newest guest blogger by letting her introduce herself.

  • Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Matt Evans

    April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would…

  • Book of Mormon FHE: Lesson One

    Julie M. Smith

    In our family, we tie our FHEs to our daily scripture study. We go through the standard works sequentially, study one story per week, and base our FHE on that story. We’ve made it through the OT and NT this way and it has been great. We’re starting the Book of Mormon, and I have…