Hiatus

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Gospel Study on the Internet

Gospel Study
Utilizing the Internet

1. www.lds.org: Access the scriptures, lesson manuals, Proclamations, Church magazine archives, General Conference archives, church news and official statements regarding church doctrine.

2. www.ldsgospeldoctrine.net: Gospel Doctrine lesson material

3. www.speeches.byu.edu: BYU Speeches on a variety of gospel topics

4. www.mi.byu.edu: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for religious scholarship

· Describe and defend the Restoration through highest quality scholarship
· Provide critically edited, primary resources (ancient religious texts) to scholars and lay persons around the world
· Build bridges of understanding and goodwill to Muslim scholars by providing superior editions of primary texts
· Provide an anchor of faith in a sea of LDS Studies

5. www.byustudies.byu.edu
BYU Studies is dedicated to publishing scholarly religious literature in the form of books, journals, and dissertations that is qualified, significant, and inspiring. We want to share these publications to help promote faith, continued learning, and further interest in our LDS history with those in the world who have a positive interest in this work.
6. http://www.lib.byu.edu/sites/mormonstudies/
Use this guide to facilitate your search for articles, books, biographies, diaries, manuscripts, dissertations, family histories, photographs, films, music, art, and more concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

7. www.ldsliving.com
Sunday Lesson material for all auxiliaries

The Morning Fifteen

Today's Assignment

The Morning Fifteen

Use the first fifteen minutes of your morning as a period for education. If you find yourself too groggy, you might want to wait a short time. Just don’t put it off later in the day where urgent activities will push it out of the way.

Follow Your Intuition

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Follow Your Intuition

Lifelong learning is like wandering through the wilderness. You can’t be sure what to expect and there isn’t always an end goal in mind. Letting your intuition guide you can make self-education more enjoyable. Most of our lives have been broken down to completely logical decisions, that making choices on a whim has been stamped out.

Start a Project

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Start a Project

Set out to do something you don’t know how. Forced learning in this way can be fun and challenging. If you don’t know anything about computers, try building one. If you consider yourself a horrible artist, try a painting.

Unlearn Assumptions

Today's Assignment

Unlearn Assumptions

You can’t add water to a full cup. I always try to maintain a distance away from any idea. Too many convictions simply mean too few paths for new ideas. Actively seek out information that contradicts your worldview.

Teach It

today's assignment

Teach Others

You learn what you teach. If you have an outlet of communicating ideas to others, you are more likely to solidify that learning. Start a blog, mentor someone or even discuss ideas with a friend.

Put it into practice

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Put it Into Practice

Skill based learning is useless if it isn’t applied. Reading a book on C++ isn’t the same thing as writing a program. Studying painting isn’t the same as picking up a brush. If your knowledge can be applied, put it into practice

Get involved in your child's education

Getting Involved in Your Child’s Education

Research has shown that when parents become involved in their child's education, the student performs better than if the parents remain distant. There are many right and wrong ways you can get involved more in your child's education. Try a few of these ideas to make a significant improvement in your involvement.

1. Ask questions. The best way you can get involved with your child's education is to ask him or her questions. However, you need to try more than just the typical, "What did you do at school today?" Try asking more specific questions about lessons in certain subjects. Do not accept "nothing" as an answer to your questions. Rephrase the question or try a different one to get a response. If your child is resistant to this type of questioning, give it some time, but don't give up!

2. Talk with the teachers. Teachers may not always have the time to contact you about your student, especially if your student is doing well or even satisfactory. They are often too overwhelmed with problem students to be able to take time to give glowing reports as much as they would like. However, if you make the initiative to contact them and ask for a progress report or ask what you child is learning in class, the teachers will be glad to oblige with a response. It is also common for teachers to maintain websites or other online resources for you to keep up with homework assignments, projects, and lessons.

3. Volunteer to help at school. Yes, you are busy. Everyone is busy nowadays. Try to take time out of your busy schedule to volunteer at your child's school. Take a day off of work to chaperone a field trip or volunteer to organize a bake sale for the Booster Club. This will give you the chance to interact with other parents and network with teachers and administrators. It will also show your child that you do care about them and their education.

4. Offer to help with homework. This does not mean to do your child's entire science fair project. You can, however, help them search the internet or books for project ideas and even help color the volcano. This is a great way to bond with your child and also keep up to date with what is going on in his or her classes.
Your "new" plight to get more involved may be met with some resistance at first. Keep trying different questions and techniques until you and your child find an arrangement that suits both of you.

Make New Friends

Today's Assignment

Get More Intellectual Friends

Start spending more time with people who think. Not just people who are smart. But people who actually invest much of their time in learning new skills. Their habits will rub off on you. Even better, they will probably share some of their knowledge with you

Make a List

Today's assignment

Keep a “To-Learn” List

We all have to-do lists. These are the tasks we need to accomplish. Try to also have a “to-learn” list. On it you can write ideas for new areas of study
. Maybe you would like to take up a new language, learn a skill or read the collective works of Shakespeare. Whatever motivates you, write it down.

Why Bother?

Today's Assignment

Think about why it is important to put learning as a high priority in your life

Continous learning is NOT about continually taking courses -- it's about developing skills in reflection and inquiry -- it's about learning how to learn so that your life's experiences become your own learning lab. The concept of continuous learning has become quite prominent over the past five years. Organizations are changing rapidly. Therefore, it's difficult to find any approach to doing anything in organizations that doesn't soon become outdated. The concept of continuous learning has become important because it places priority on noticing, adapting and learning from change.

Summer Reads to stretch the mind

Great LDS Reads for the Whole Family

Adults
· The Scriptures
· A Marvelous Work and Wonder
· Jesus the Christ by James Talmage
· The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball
· Lectures on Faith by Joseph Smith
· The Messiah Series by Bruce R. McConkie
· The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt


Teens
· The Scriptures
· Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites series by Chris Heimmerdinger
· The Forgotten Warrior by Kathi Peterson
· Saving Kristen by Jack Weyland
· Anything by John Bytheway
· The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey




Kids
· The Scriptures
· Believe and You’re There series by Alice Johnson
· The Story of the Walnut Tree
· Daughter of a King by Rachel Nunes
· The Nephiteologist: My Journey in the Lands of the Book of Mormon by Timothy Robinson
· In the Garden by Caralyn Buhner
· The Trap: A Story to Help Teach Children Modesty and Protect Them from Pornography by Karmel H. Newell, illustrated by Dan Burr
· Kids on a Mission series by Stan Bessey

Home Improvement

Today's Assignment

Learn how to do those projects that need completing around the house

For FREE How-to classes, click HERE

Understanding Art

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Visit the ASU Art Museum for a FREE lesson on art appreciation

Click HERE for more details

Between the pages

Today's Assignment

Read a good book- one that makes you think- one that you can LEARN something from.

For good clean fiction, check out THIS blog it also has great links to other fun reading sites.

Free College Money

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Find ways you can receive FREE money towards your college education

Click HERE for more information

Babysitting Training

Today's Assignment

If you have a child of babysitting age, enroll them in a safe babysitting course

Call the Mesa Fire Department 480-644-2508 to arrange class. Class members must be 12 years and older.

Self- Defense

Today's Assignment

Take a class to learn how to defend yourself.

Click HERE for information on FREE self-defense class

Resume Writing Tips

Effective Resume Writing
Here are some tips for effective resume writing.

First A Few General Resume Writing Tips

Your resume writing should be succinct, clear and easy to read. No resume writing that is overly flowery, with hyperbole and superlatives that exaggerate your qualifications. Your resume writing should include lots of organization - bullets, lists and italics that make important points stand out, and plenty of white space.

Make sure that when you do your resume writing you catch all the grammatical and punctuation errors and all the typographical mistakes as well. There is nothing that will get your resume thrown on the junk pile faster than a grammar mistake or a misspelled word. No matter what experience you list or what qualifications you clarify you probably won't get the interview if your resume writing indicates you are sloppy or a poor communicator.

Your resume writing should be focused and powerful. If you don't want to state an objective (which, by the way, if stated, should be very specific) you should at least clarify a job title or industry somewhere up front. Your name and contact information might be immediately followed by "nursing professional," centered on a line by itself, for example.

While your resume writing should certainly be honest and factual you also want to stand out and put your best job search foot forward with the use of powerful words. Starting each sentence with a powerful word is one good way of making yourself unique. Some powerful words are "accomplished," "launched," "managed," "tackled," and "coordinated." See the powerful action in these? This type of resume writing makes you look proactive, strong, focused and determined.

Writing Your Qualifications

Resume writing is first and foremost about stating your qualifications and experience, of course. Here are some tips on writing this section of your resume.

You should always list the positions you held in reverse chronological order. In other words, list the most recent job first and the job you held first is last on the list when you do your resume writing. Those jobs that you held years ago and probably were more entry level than your later positions don't need much detail.

Where your resume writing should be more detailed is in the explanation of your most recent jobs and the ones whose responsibilities and achievements have the most relevance to the position for which you are now applying.

There is no hard and fast rule, when resume writing, about whether to begin each job with the job title or the name of the firm. Just decide on which will most impress the potential employer, and then start with that - and make it bold. Once decided, however, your resume writing must be consistent.

You should never start one job with the job title but the next with the name of the firm. If the firm is not well known it might be wise to parenthetically explain what the company does and is. Your dates of work should come last, and be italicized. There is never any reason, if you were employed more than a year, to include the months. All you need to state are the years of employment.

It is perfectly acceptable, when resume writing - and, in fact, is encouraged - to include volunteer work that is relevant.

America's Got Talent

Today's Assignment

Register for a dance, drama, music or art class at the Mesa Arts Center

Click HERE for class descriptions and meeting times

Gospel Study

Today's Assignment

Check out THIS great website that offers an amazing amount of research and study on the LDS Sunday School lessons each week.

Education Week

Today's Assignment

Make arrangements to attend this year's BYU Education Week August 17-21

Click HERE for more information

Study

When we have knowledge and wisdom, we are better able to discern truth from error and make good choices. Education and literacy are also keys to personal growth, preparation for suitable employment, building strong families, service in the Church, and making a meaningful contribution to the society in which we live.

Today's Assignment

Choose a topic you have always wanted to know more about. Spend 1 hour researching and studying this topic.