IMPORTANT NOTE:

Chapter 4 of TJEd for Teens is due Dec. 15

instead of the 8th.

This is the BEST chapter! You will love it!

We will be doing our service project at the PAC in Core on the 8th. Yes!

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We've been so blessed to come to our new location at the PAC! What a great place to hold ASA! We talked a lot about the stewardship we have to take care of our new building, so we thought it would be good to have the inspirements this week be about stewardship.

This week's Inspirements:

 "…our life on earth is a stewardship of time and choices granted by our Creator. The word stewardship calls to mind the Lord’s law of consecration…" (Elder D. Todd Christofferson, Reflections of a Consecrated Life, Ensign, November 2010.)

Consider and discuss with someone or record in your Truth Book about the following. 

Apprentice Inspirements:

1. Read this about what "Steward/Stewardship" is. 

- What is a steward and what are their responsibilities? Discuss with your parents what it means to be a good steward.

- Who are stewards in your life? Make a list in your Truth Book. Find a way to express your gratitude for the responsible stewards in your life. 

Journeyman Inspirements:

1. Do the Apprentice Inspirements.
2. Listen, watch or read:

https://www.lds.org/ensign/2010/11/reflections-on-a-consecrated-life?lang=eng#listen=audio

Master Inspirements:

1. Do the Apprentice and Journeyman Inspirements.

2. Consider the following questions and write your answers in your Truth Book.

- As you understand stewardship and responsibility better does it change your perspective towards stewards in your life? In what ways?

- What do you have stewardship for? What is one thing you can do to improve upon one area in which you have stewardship?

Enjoy reading Chapter 4 "Falling in Love" of TJEd for Teens and be ready for an AWESOME book discussion on Dec. 8.

Remember, each person who reads the chapter and is ready for the discussion on Dec. 8 will receive a tasty reward!

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No Inspirements this week

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Heads UP! Each person who reads TJEd for Teens chapter 4 "Falling in Love With Learning" and is prepared for an awesome discussion of it on Dec 8, will receive a reward!

Be one of them! 

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This week in Core Leadership we had a couple of wonderful guest speakers come and teach us about their experiences while serving a Self Reliance mission in the Philippines. Their presentation was wonderful! They shared how powerful it is for a person to gain the skills and education that can then propel their life forward, lift them from poverty and help them to better live a full and enriching life. We are so appreciative of Brother & Sister Hansen for taking their time to come share with us!

This week's Inspirements

Apprentice:

1. Print out these two maps that are linked below and learn more about the Philippines. Follow the instructions on the papers then show your finished papers to one of your parents.(Be sure you have your parent's permission if you want to search for these answers online.)

World Map
Philippines Map

Journeyman:

1. Do the Apprentice Inspirements.

2. Brother & Sister Hansen talked about how their mission was spent helping people become more self-reliant, and how as they learned to become more self-reliant, they were able to grow and improve their lives. What areas in your life could you learn to be more self-reliant? Make a list in your Truth Book.

Some examples might be:

• keeping up in my student planner
• remembering to do my chores without being reminded
• getting up in the morning when I'm supposed to
• doing my school assignments now instead of pushing them off until later

Prayerfully consider your list and choose one thing from it and work diligently at being more self-reliant in that one thing for 3 days. At the end of the 3 days, report to your Heavenly Father how it went.

self-re·li·ant

adjective

1. reliant on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others.

Master:

1. Do the Apprentice & Journeyman Inspirements.

2. Look up Self-Reliance Services on LDS.org. These are the tools that Brother & Sister Hansen used to teach the people in the Philippines. Spend 1/2 hour or more perusing this incredible information, learning about the things that are interesting to you. Then tell someone about something interesting you learned from this site.

Thank you, Scholar Society, for a great lesson last Thursday!

Heads up:

Read TJEd for Teens Chapter 4 by Dec. 8.

You're going to LOVE this chapter! 

This week's Inspirements

Apprentice:
1. In TJEd for Teens it says, "Great mentoring changes your life. If you want a truly great education, find and follow good mentors." (pg 50)
    - In your Truth Book, identify and write down the names of good mentors you have in your life right now. They might include your piano teacher, Sunday School teacher, parents, friend, neighbor, books, etc. Think deep and broad and write down as many as come to mind. 
    - During this month of November, make an increased effort to express your gratitude to each one of them. :)

Journeyman:
1. Do the Apprentice Inspirement.

2. Watch these two video clips from the movie "Karate Kid." Observe how Daniel (the mentee) is being mentored by Miyagi (the karate mentor.) Daniel has come to Miyagi asking him to teach him karate. Miyagi agrees but has a curious way of beginning his teaching...

Karate Kid - "Wax On, Wax Off"

Karate Kid - "Show me Sand the Floor..."

3. Daniel was asked to do things that didn't seem to have anything to do with karate. But because he submitted himself to Miyagi's mentorship, he finally began to understand and began to see the value in it. 
    - Do a Word Study on the words Submit/Submission. (How to Do a Word Study) This will be an awesome study!

Master:
1. Do the Apprentice and Journeyman Inspirements.

2. As you step more willingly into the role of Mentee, you will learn more and more that your greatest and most trusted Mentor is your Father in Heaven. Neal A. Maxwell gave a tremendous talk about the need of being willing to submit to Him to achieve our greatest potential. Print out this talk and read it thoroughly, underlining and annotating as you go. For a deeper experience, pray before you read it, asking Heavenly Father to teach you specifically what you need to gain from reading it.

Willing to Submit

IMPORTANT HEADS UP!

Next week, Thursday November 4th, is the date of our next discussion on TJEd for Teens!

Chapter 3 - "Mentors"

If you haven't already, START THIS CHAPTER RIGHT AWAY!

This is a super awesome chapter and it has some self-reflection questions in it to answer, as well as other really great questions.

I PROMISE!

If you will give yourself to this chapter and it's questions, you will be so blessed to learn things about yourself that you didn't know before!

WILL YOU DO IT?

SAY YES! :)

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This week's Inspirements

Because chpt 3 from TJEd for Teens is SO important for you to read and answer the questions in it, the Inspirements for this week are pretty short and sweet. Enjoy them!

Apprentice:

Read each of these scriptures and the quote from Pres. Hinckley. Choose one of them that is meaningful and copy it into your Truth Book.

Doctrine & Covenants 130:19

Isaiah 5:13

Isaiah 33:6

Ether 3:19-20

John 8:32

Gordon B. Hinckley:

"None of us...knows enough. The learning process is an endless process. We must read, we must observe, we must assimilate, and we must ponder that to which we expose our minds. You cannot afford to stop. You must not rest in your development... There is so much to learn and so little time in which to learn it." (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, pg 298)

Journeyman:

1. Do the Apprentice Inspirement.

2. Have some fun with these Trivia Questions - There's no need to score yourself, just see what things you know, and then learn the answers to the things you didn't know. Have fun with this! :)

Questions

Answers

Master:

1. Do the Apprentice & Journeyman Inspirements.

2. I came across this short video clip from an interview with former Supreme Court Justice, David Souter. Watch it and see what he says about civil ignorance and freedom. After watching it and pondering the message, write in your Truth Book a sentence or two about it's meaning to you.

Justice Souter on Threat to Freedom

We had a great discussion on chapter 2 of TJEd for Teens today! Good job to everyone who read it and was prepared! And thank you to Scholar Society for their great job of leading the discussions and for the great lesson today! 

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Be sure to read Chapter 3 of TJEd for Teens by Nov 3rd!

(that's 3 weeks from today)

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This week's Inspirements are a little different! 

Read below!

There's only ONE Inspirement this week, and everyone who does it will earn Master level for it!

If you don't have one right now, choose a book that is a classic to you, and READ!

If you're already in the middle of a great book, keep READING! 

Since we have Fall Break this next week, you have 2 weeks before we meet again. Soooo, just enjoy yourself and READ and READ.... Come to class on Oct 27 prepared to tell your group what book you've been reading and take about 30-45 seconds to tell why you like it. Awesome!

Be sure to read chpt 2 of TJEd for Teens for our discussion this week! Your team is counting on you!

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A “classic” is a work — literature, music, a piece of art, movie, a game — that’s worth returning to again and again AND you gain more from it each time.

This week's Inspirements:

Apprentice:

Is everything you like a classic? Think of the music, movies, books, art, poems, literary works, etc, that you have read or seen. Would you consider these things classics? Or are they not necessarily classics, but just things you like? Really take a few minutes to think about what being a classic means, that is "worth returning to again and again" and that “you gain more from it each time?"

What sets a classic apart from the things we just like?

1. In your Truth Book, make two lists. Label one list "Classic" and label the other list "Just Enjoy." Think of the music, movies, books, art, poems, literary works, etc, that you have experienced and put them in one of those two categories. Try to come up with at least 10 things to put on your paper.

2. If you don’t have anything in your “classic” group start a treasure hunt for a classic you think you would enjoy. (Hint: there is a list at the end of chapter 2 of TJEd for Teens for some suggestions.)


Journeyman
1. Do the Apprentice Inspirements.

2. In your Truth Book, choose one of the things on your "Classic" list and record what made it a classic to you.

3. Find someone who has experienced one of your classics and discuss it with them. If you can’t find someone who has already experienced it, come up with way to get them EXCITED about experiencing it.

4. Identify at least one classic you have not experienced and find a way to access it and begin it.




Master
1. Do the Apprentice and Journeyman Inspirements.

2. Print out and read this article. Mark it up: highlight, underline, write notes or questions in the margins, draw pictures or graphic over the text.

"An Aid to Perfection: Some Thoughts on Literature and Mormons."

Does this article open your eyes to see classics and experience them in new ways? Record any thoughts, feelings, impressions from this article in your Truth Book.