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Lydia - Serving Others

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A few weeks before I sent out and email announcing the activity: We will learn about Lydia. Lydia was "A Seller of Purple". She opened up her home to the missionaries and helped to convert hundreds! For our activity, We will have a Purple Party!  The sister missionaries are coming to share a short message and we are providing them dinner. This is a perfect activity to invite a friend that is not a member of our church! Every 8 or 9 year old girl is welcome to our Purple Party! -Wear Purple!  -Bring a healthy food item to share with the missionaries and all the girls (purple food preferred but not required) -Bring a 8 or 9 year old girl as a friend to the party! I invited two sets of sister missionaries: once from our ward and one from our our local YSA ward. Both sets came! I made it clear to the parents that thay were providing dinner for the missionaries and we got some great responses. One girl brought a bucket of KFC fried chicken, another brought a pizza. Not

Huldah - Developing Talents (6)

Read D&C 88:118. Discuss what it means to “seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” Improve your personal study habits by doing such things as learning how to choose and read good books or being prepared for school each day -Developing Talents #6 We met next to our local public library. We did our opening stuffs and I started of by reading D&C 88:118. Then I gave the lesson: Huldah Huldah’s story is told twice in the Bible. It’s in 2nd Kings and in 2nd Chronicles.  Huldah lived at the same time as Lehi! You remember when Lehi was in Jerusalem, he had a vision, what did he see? (Jerusalem being destroyed) Huldah was different from most people  living during her time because she could read. Not even the king could read! She must have had to study hard and practice over and over again in order to learn to read. When she grew up she married a man called   Shallum who was the "keeper of the wardrobe", which could have reference to either the King's