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Category Archives: More About Me

Getting Rid of the Sippy Cups?

Approaching that milestone soon at our house.
As usual, your comments are welcome.
~~Matia Bryson

Why Is It Important To Study The Scriptures?

Studying the scriptures is important, and everyone would benefit from its practice. As we learned from Nephi’s experience of fetching the brass plates in Jerusalem, without the scriptures nations will perish (1 Nephi 4:13-17). We need scriptures to teach us the commandments. We need scriptures to teach us doctrine (2 Timothy 3: 15, 16). The [...]

Learning the Thirteen Articles of Faith

Trying to help the kids learn their Articles of Faith? The following links takes you to the LDS.org music pages for each Article of Faith. To hear the music press the little “play” arrow icon in the top left column. If you want to hear the words sung too, click the little round space (radio [...]

Favorite Searches in eBay to Find LDS Sheet Music

I recently received this question from a reader:
I am looking for the sheet music for “My turn on earth”. Please let me know if you know of any way that I can purchase it. I tried ebay and of course Deseret books to no avail. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Sandra Sofoifa
A brief search on Google was [...]

Obedience & Freedom… Quotes from Church Leaders

I have been pondering about freedom and obedience for a long time, so I welcomed the opportunity to do some research and learn some more about it for a sacrament meeting talk in my home ward, the Hickory Flat Ward of the Marietta Georgia East Stake. Here are some quotations from LDS Church leaders on the [...]

An LDS Missionary Announcement

We are pleased to announce the calling of our son David Bryson to serve a full-time mission in the Colorado Denver South mission, entering the MTC on January 23rd, 2008. We are very happy for him.
~~Matia Bryson

Pumpkins and More Pumpkins

In keeping with the season of Halloween and Thanksgiving in the United States, I thought my readers might appreciate these pumpkin-themed pages from the Friend magazine.
First, the October 1991 Friend has lots of pumpkin content including these recipes for pumpkin cookies and Jack-O-Lantern Salad.
If you still do not have enough pumpkin recipes in your repertoire, [...]

Remembering Christopher Columbus

Columbus Day is being observed in the United States today. There was a Christopher Columbus coloring page in the most recent issue of the Friend. I also recently came across this story in the 1992 Friend, Christopher Columbus, Inspired Seaman.
Other items of interest:

Creating the Friend Magazine Article gives some interesting background in how this magazine [...]

Printing Pictures, Mazes and a Child’s Pedigree Chart

As I am going through the LDS.org archives of the Friend magazine for the years 1992-3, I am finding many pictures that do not say “click here to view larger image.” To print these pictures I need to right click, select “save picture as” to save it to my hard drive first. Now for some [...]

Be a Part of LDS FamilySearch Indexing

When I read this Ensign article about the new FamilySearch Indexing project, I seriously considered abandoning my indexing of the LDS Coloring Pages to participate in this worthy cause. Like temple work, the scope of this project is breathtaking. One wonders if it can be completed before the Second Coming. In brief, this project is [...]