Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
"He will make you a fisher of men, however inadequate you may feel now. It won’t be done by a mysterious process. It will be the natural result of your choosing to follow him. Just think about what you must do to be a fisher of men, to touch lives with faith for him. You will need to love the people you serve. You will need to be humble and full of hope. You will need to have the Holy Ghost as your companion to know when to speak and what to say and how to testify."
"And if those who hear will take the Savior’s name upon them and always remember him, and keep his commandments, they will finally come to him and he will take them home to his Father and our Father, where we may live forever in families."
I wrote a song this year - my first one. I wanted the Primary children to sing something new for the Primary Program this year, and I came up with a short song that I combined with "I am Like A Star". We did a few different "mash-ups" for the program, and you can read more here. I later wrote a few more verses, but only have a recording of the first verse.
"God is perfect and omnipotent, and you and I are mortal. But he is our Father, he loves us, and he offers the same opportunity to draw closer to him as would a loving friend. And you will do it in much the same way: speaking, listening, and doing."
"Remembrance is the seed of gratitude which is the seed of generosity. Gratitude for the remission of sins is the seed of charity, the pure love of Christ."
As part of our Primary Program this year, I have been doing some "mash-ups" with the music so that we can include more songs in the program. One of the pairings I made is about the Temple, and it ended up being three songs mixed into two. I really like the Primary song "I Love to See The Temple" so that was a given for me to teach this year. The other song came to me a while ago when I was looking at the back of the hymnbook and was noticing the pages that give tunes and meters and group related songs. I like the tune to "In Humility Our Savior" and found that the words to "Holy Temples on Mount Zion" are a meter match. Putting the two together gives a new song about Temples that I was able to use with "I Love to See the Temple" in a simple medley:
"God loves us, and he intends for us to become like him. He doesn’t ask us now to worry about all his children in all the world, as he does. Instead, he begins with a call to watch over just a few families, just a few people."
