Be the Kind of Person.....

"Be the kind of person who says something nice when no one else does."

March 2015 VT Message - The Attributes of Christ: Long-Suffering & Patient

Here are a few handouts for you, and the full Visiting Teaching Message can be found {HERE} XoXo

This is two to a page, click {HERE} 

Sized 4x6 in cream {HERE}

...and in white, sized 4x6 {HERE}

Feb 2015 VT Message - Attributes of Christ: Without Sin - Handout/Printable

This month's message is part two of the series on the Attributes of Christ - this one focuses on the Savior being 'Without Sin', the full message can be found {HERE}. 

Go HERE for March's Message

>>>> The handout with the flowers is available as 4x6 {HERE} and 4 to a page {HERE}. 
>>>> The handout with the photo of the Savior is available at 2 to a page {HERE}.
*** to download just right click on the image when it appears and select 'save as' to save to your computer.

 

TREAT IDEA

I found this cute treat idea to give as well... all you need is: 

• Cupcake Wrappers, Paper Straws, Scissors and Jumbo Marshmallows

Perfect for Valentine's Day and would be fun to dip in chocolate and give with a chocolate powder mix.

:: :: STRAWS CAN BE PURCHASED IN MY PARTY SHOP {HERE} at 25% OFF, using code FEBVT. Enjoy:) :: :: 

A full tutorial can be found {HERE}

Tutorial and image courtesy of: Living Locurto

Breaking the Barriers

"Today, many will break through the barriers of the past by looking at the blessings of the present. Why not you?"

Steve Maraboli

Tomorrow is a New Day

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurbities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." 

~Emerson~

On My Way To Being Me

"Far from what I was once was but not yet what I am going to be."

Wrong is Wrong. Right is Right.

"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no-one is doing it."

{free printable available here}

UPDATE - I just came across this free printable today of the same quote from 'It Works for Bobbi'. To download, click HERE or the image.

Light a Candle

"Better to light a candle, than curse the darkness." 

~Chinese proverb~

Before You...

Before you act, listen.

Before you react, think.

Before you respond, earn.

Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive.

Before you quit, try.

~Ernest Hemingway

Wounds

"Don't allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

{source}

Decisions & Values

It's not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.

- Roy Disney

Do it Anyway

I think this has to be my most favorite Mother Teresa quote. Ever:

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
 ~Mother Teresa

Over-thinking

Over-thinking ruins you. Ruins the situation, twists things around, makes you worry and just makes everything much worse than it actually is.

BElieve THEre is GOOD in the World

An Ideal Christmas

"There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions." 

 ~Bill McKibben

A Twinkle, A Smile and Great Purpose

"Go forward with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart."

Gordon B. Hinckley

(and doesn't this quote pretty much sum up the man?)

Be That Person

"Be the person that makes others feel special. Be known for your kindness and sympathy."

To Be Yourself

"To be yourself in a world that is 

constantly trying to make you 

something else is the 

greatest accomplishment." 

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Weakness Into Strength

"We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity."
--Russell M. Nelson, "Integrity of Heart", Ensign, Aug. 1995, 19

Defying Circumstances

"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world"
(John 16:33)

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'‘You Gotta Keep Dancin' is a book by Tim Hansel, who years ago experienced a near-fatal climbing accident that has left him in constant pain. His book tells how he has learned to deal with this pain by distinguishing between happiness and joy. He says, “There is nothing wrong with happiness, it's wonderful. . . . The only problem is that it is based on circumstances, and circumstances have a tendency to shift. Most people who live with chronic pain [or chronic problems] have a hard time being happy. That is to be expected. Although there are moments of laughter, nothing seems to stay.

Joy on the other hand is something which defies circumstances, and occurs in spite of difficult situations. Whereas happiness is a feeling, joy is an attitude”.

We cannot control some of the circumstances that come into our lives and challenge us. What we can control is how we deal with them. President Kimball summarised this idea beautifully.

“One time or another, we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite, falls to the ground. Another yields, not retreating an inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome. It all depends [upon] . . . attitudes”

We will never have to suffer any agony equal to that endured by Christ. As Elder Maxwell so insightfully adds:

"Though our trials are tiny compared to [the Savior's], . . . Jesus was of good cheer because then current conditions did not alter His sources of ultimate joy. Are not our fundamental sources of joy the same as His? . . .
"It remains for us, therefore, to be of good cheer even when . . . current circumstances seem hopeless. .. . The unfolding of God's purposes may require the collapse of other things.
"How often is it necessary for dismantling to occur in order for something better to be put in place? [Even As I Am, pp. 100, 101]
(excerpts from "Selective Attitudes and the Happy Life", REX E. AND JANET G. LEE, BYU Speeches, 12 Jan 1993)