Elizabeth

Thanks for sharing your wonderful testimony! It is so true, that when we share our testimonies with others, ours is built stronger then ever. Thanks again

do these websites give the history of the Mormon Temples?

We live in a ward where the members just struggle to get food for a week. How do I teach them the importance of emergency preparedness which includes more than just food storage?

A great website that explains the family and the responsibilities therein, is found at www.familiesforever.com Never has there been a time when we have needed clarification on the role of family and each member. The Lord has laid it out in the Family Proclamation, after which there should never be a question in what the Lord requires.

Working in the Relief Society and being a part of a ward that includes numerous converts from the inner city, is quite an eye opener. Our ward is quite different from the 'normal' LDS congregations. I have had to learn a tremendous amount of patience with those coming from a different walk of life which many times includes addictions of every kind and a tremendous amount of dysfunction in their families. When we can immediately get those baptized members working as visiting/home teachers, then it makes it much easier for them. When the member is baptized, I make sure that that there is a visiting teacher assigned and present at the baptism as well as the visiting teacher assigned to be her partner for the next 1-6 months. The route will include 2 active members and 1 less active member. The convert will be trained by her partner to pray, prepare a lesson and learn the Lord's wisdom in having the visiting/home teaching program. There are times that no matter what we do, we cannot hold on to our new convert, but at least we are trying to do everything to make it happen. I know that there are probably other things that have worked for other wards/branches and it would be of great help for me if someone would share their ideas.