free 2021 theme bookmarks for your young women

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😍There is SO much good stuff to dive into in the two verses of the 2021 theme--which brings the need for a supercute bookmark with the full scripture, which I have to gift to you! 💛 

Print out the bookmark and you can easily:

-introduce the new scripture to your young women 👩🏻‍🏫

-help them see & memorize the full two  verses 🕵🏻‍♀️

-give them a theme related bookmark to use when & wherever they read📚

-cut it into strips & use as a puzzle to unscramble the theme🧩

-give the fancy bookmark as an inexpensive gift to your young women 🎁

All from just one free kit! How can my other theme kits help you this year?

Display the Theme: Bulletin Board Kit

Setting up a cute bulletin board has never been easier than print 🖨, cut ✂️ and staple ✨ Your young women will love the minimalist & trendy design of this year’s bulletin board prints!

Plan for the Theme: Planner Kit

Plan simply + in style with this planner kit. ✍ Print + go or use the editable PDFs with theme-coordinating designs to supercharge planning this year! ⚡

Celebrate the Theme: Birthday Kit

Keep the theme relevant all year round with these supercute gift tags for young woman birthdays & special events! 🥳 Cards + tags included for many types of gift givers. 🎁

Bundle the Theme: Four Kits in One

All of the above kits + exclusive cards to minister to your YW are included in the 2021 YW Ultimate Bundle! 💛 Save $, time + sanity with these four kits in your arsenal. 😉

Are you ready for the bookmark kit download link? It's coming up soon. 👉 Before you download & dash, I just want to make sure you know this is NOT the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint! To see & have all my free resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! 📌Now here's the promised PDF! 💝 

🌎 Don’t forget to scroll to the top for multilingual support. 🇪🇸 🇧🇷 Happy theme planning!

come, follow me 2021

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SO excited to study D&C this year. 🤩 The reading schedule is light & I’m so loving the aesthetic of this year’s binder printables!!

If you’re new to the blog (👋!!), one way to study Come, Follow Me is with a study binder. Each year I make the binder inserts as a gift to y’all to use & enjoy. 

First and foremost is the cover.✨The iconic Kirtland temple, a forest and flowers all made this year’s beautiful look!

👩🏻‍🎨I went all out with the extra goodies this year. I hope the spine, motivational D&C bookmark & new foldable tabs enhance your binder and your study!

😎This weekly study tracker is so multifunctional. Plan out how you’re going to divide this week’s reading, record one insight daily, write your favorite verse from each study + so much more. 📋



Here we have the daily study page! I think the information bubbles in the middle speak for themselves 😂 but you may be wondering... what’s with the hexagons? 

I designed this page to be used with the manual for Come, Follow Me. In the “ideas for personal study” section, you’ll find around 4 paragraphs like this one below, about D+C 1.👇

“The Lord invites me to 'search these commandments.' A preface introduces a book. It identifies the book’s themes and purposes and helps readers prepare to read. As you read section 1—the Lord’s 'preface' to the Doctrine and Covenants (verse 6)—look for the themes and purposes the Lord gave for His revelations. What do you learn from section 1 that will help you get the most benefit from your study of the Doctrine and Covenants? For example, you might ponder what it means to 'hear the voice of the Lord' in these revelations (verse 14) or to 'search these commandments' (verse 37)."

See also the introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants."

--Come, Follow Me for Individuals + Families, 2021

You’ll see there are questions, references, segments, activities and more in these paragraphs. Each bite sized question, source or insight can be written in one of the hexagons! 🤓 I've demonstrated this in the photo/video tutorial you can use if you're confused.

Pull your weeklong study together during church by referencing these study pages. Add your come follow me insights from the church supported sacrament meetings and 2nd hour lessons, building on what you’ve studied this week. 📝

While these printables are pretty, I made sure that they were practical as well. All study pages have black and white "coloring page" versions. 🖍



💁🏻‍♀️This reading schedule featuring the Kirtland & Nauvoo temples is the cherry on top. 🍒 The whole D&C schedule on one cute printable page? Yes, please! It's all yours.

 But before you download + dash, I want to make sure you know that this isn't the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint.💛If you are confused on how to use any of the binder pages, I've made a photo + video tutorial to help you out. 🤳 And to easily see & have all my free Latter-Day Saint resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! Now here's the promised PDF in English, Español + Português. Happy studying!

2021 come, follow me binder -- demo/diy

 Hey y'all! You ready to make a 2021 study binder for come, follow me? 

If you’re new to the blog (👋!!), one way to study Come, Follow Me is with a study binder. Each year I make the binder inserts as a gift to y’all to use & enjoy. Here, I'll use photo + video to guide you through each study binder page.

You know what you want when you see it? Are you ready to see how to put this thing together, right away? Then you'll love this quick video on how it all comes together. 🎬

You saw the inserts + the steps. (Ready to print? I share links at the bottom of each post. 🖨) Here they are in photo form so you can get a glimpse of each part for as long as is needed.

Isn't it so perfect that the prints from the video are free + easy to use? Scroll down for the link. 👇

I am just loving the Kirtland Temple as the front cover this year. So iconic!

Ignore the sketchy photography/lighting of the pic. 🤣 Enjoy what there is to love about this 2021 reading schedule! 

This Restoration quote bookmark can help motivate/remind you to do that D+C study and hold your  place in your scriptures!

Hang it up on your fridge, wall, church bulletin board, or wherever you know it will help you stay on track for this year.💁🏻‍♀️

The spine + dividers are a few of the extra goodies I added to the kit this year! This step definitely takes the longest-lots of cuting, pasting, and hole punching. But I think it's so worth it to get these leveled-up divider tabs.

The final step is as simple as can be. 😌 Insert the study pages (daily worksheet, weekly page, sunday notes) and use them--how? I'll detail + share examples below. 💬

The first study page is probably the most complicated. Let's get it over with!  I think the information bubbles in the middle speak for themselves 😂 but you may be wondering... what’s with the hexagons? 

I designed this page to be used with the manual for Come, Follow Me. In the “ideas for personal study” section, you’ll find around 4 paragraphs like this one below, about D+C 1.👇

“The Lord invites me to 'search these commandments.' A preface introduces a book. It identifies the book’s themes and purposes and helps readers prepare to read. As you read section 1—the Lord’s 'preface' to the Doctrine and Covenants (verse 6)—look for the themes and purposes the Lord gave for His revelations. What do you learn from section 1 that will help you get the most benefit from your study of the Doctrine and Covenants? For example, you might ponder what it means to 'hear the voice of the Lord' in these revelations (verse 14) or to 'search these commandments' (verse 37)."

See also the introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants."

--Come, Follow Me for Individuals + Families, 2021

You’ll see there are questions, references, segments, activities and more in these paragraphs. Each bite sized question, source or insight can be written in one of the hexagons! 🤓 Get a detailed view below.

Next is the weekly study page. 😎 

This weekly study tracker is so multifunctional. Plan out how you’re going to divide this week’s reading, record one insight daily, write your favorite verse from each study + so much more. 📋 

Finally are the Sunday notes! I'm so excited about them! 

While the above version is colorful, as I created the study pages, I realized to be realistic, there would need to be black and white editions to help people save ink. So the coloring page versions were born!

You can record your insights while your children are kept busy by coloring in the flowers and letters on the page. You can also give your children or yourself to enjoy on their own.

A spiritual way to entertain your little ones on Sundays? Yes, please! It, and the rest of these amazing 2021 printables are all yours.

 But before you download + dash, I want to make sure you know that this isn't the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint. 💛 If you are confused on how to use any of the binder pages, I've made a photo + video tutorial to help you out. 🤳 And to easily see & have all my free Latter-Day Saint resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! Now here's the promised PDF in English, Español + Português. Happy studying!

virtual young women's lessons: 5 teaching tips

👩🏻‍🏫I just taught a virtual YW lesson for my fellow YW + want to help you with yours. Here are simple tips from a YW (me!) 🙋🏻‍♀️ to incorporate in your next lesson!

1. Keep It Short & Sweet 🙏

👩🏻‍💻I spend around 12-33 hours on video calls a week between virtual school, church and extracurriculars, and I think I'm no exception.😌 It is such a blessing that we have technology to meet virtually, but it also makes it very easy for people to get "Zoomed-out." 🥵

Quality over quantity, right? Everyone, no matter the type of call, will appreciate a lesson being straight and to the point. 🙏

2. Slideshow Magic 🪄 

I think I’m pretty patient & mature, but on Zoom my attention span goes 📉. A pretty slideshow will keep listeners curious and engaged. In this day & age, it’s easier than ever to pull that off.  

💻 There are SO many platforms that have templates & resources to help you make a super slideshow without experience in design. Some examples are PPT, Slides, Keynote & Visme.

🏞 All you need to easily create a killer slideshow is a good template & photos. The Church Media Library has TONS of photos & paintings free for church use. 

3.Videos Rock 😎

🎬You will grab + keep attention with videos, so use them as much as you can! Start a lesson with a fun youth video. Instead of reading a Church quote, watch a clip of it. Instead of reading a conference story, use their videos. 📽

You can find Church videos here. General Conference videos can be trimmed to a specific segment on the Gospel Media app or in Google Slides. ✂️ I like to search keywords on churchofjesuschrist.org. 🔎 The Church also filters videos by the YW lesson topics! 😍😍

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I've given you tips on teaching your YW Lessons. This premium resource will help you plan them like a pro! cool The 2021 Presidency Planner has so many helpful organizers for Young Women's! An editable Sunday agenda ✍, lesson assignment planner, and 2021 lesson chart ⭐ is included with your purchase. 

4. Break out!

Anything to mix up video calls is a good thing, and this is another tool for your arsenal. Breakout rooms allow smaller discussions. 👥

You could assign groups scriptures and have them read & discuss it before sharing findings with the whole class 📖, allow people to share experiences in a more comfortable setting🗣, or collaborate in a lesson activity. 💬

You can make breakout groups randomly, manually, or in a CSV file beforehand. It's hard to know who's going to show up in advance, but it's nice to make good groups of leaders, separated friends, etc. 😼😂

5. Think Outside the Zoom 📦

Make video calls interactive! Utilize resources online like Jamboards, Kahoot (trivia & polls), Peardeck, etc. ✨

You could even share a Google Slide with the class (to edit) to do interactive activities in real time. (Ex: sort parts of a scripture in order, put together puzzle pieces of an image, fill out a table/chart). 🧩

Bringing the lesson to life will be appreciated as well. Send out a notes page people can print & write on📝, utilize scavenger hunts, play stop the reader and have object lessons. 

Just like you would in person, which is the point of these simple tips! I hope that they help you as you serve and teach your YW! 💛

OTHER RESOURCES:

I love to help you teach your YW! Go to the CFM for YW page for more free resources.

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Before I sign off, I just want to make sure you know that this is NOT the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint! To see & have all my free resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! 📌

Thank YOU for all you do to serve the youth of the Church! You are doing amazing! ❤❤

5 Easy & Time Saving Young Women Bulletin Board Tips for You

Who here loves putting up new young women bulletin boards? Even when I'm satisfied with the young women bulletin board end result, assembling it can be not only tedious, but time consuming. 🕰🙄

I tried set out to simplify this process as I set up our 2021 Young Women bulletin board! It turned out soooo cute, and we were able to save time putting it up by following these five simple tips.

1. Supercharge productivity with teamwork 

Try This: There is a lot of menial work to do as you prepare for bulletin board setup. Doesn't cutting out elements + stringing together banners sound SO exhilarating? 😆 We can "bear one another's burdens" by sharing the load. 

👉 You’re a hardworking + busy Latter-day Saint leader! Just like the other people in your presidency. So who can help? (Hint: it’s the same people you’re setting this up for…) 👱🏻‍♀️

YW bulletin board setup can be turned into an activity. Listen to the new youth theme music or talk while you work. 🎶 With so many helping hands, it will take a small fraction of what it would for you working solo. 

It Worked for Us: 🙏Total shoutout to my mom, who helped me put this together from her years of experience putting up bulletin boards. My fab sister also joined the team. 🤝

2. Use a low maintenance setup 

Try This: For better or worse, we live in a virtual world. 💻 I know some people like to keep their bulletin boards up to date monthly, and that’s totally cool. 😉 But if you hate updating your bulletin board, why constantly make yourself do it? 

👉Make your bulletin board theme based & avoid any monthly or seasonal info like lessons, birthdays, or activities. Chances are, you already communicate this information digitally, so, no loss to your group!

It Worked for Us: We spent a Saturday morning setting up, then did some major high fives knowing we wouldn't have to update the bulletin board anytime soon. 🥳 We were able to do this because our (my) kit includes enough assets to fill the bulletin board without needing to add changing info. 

3. Make a battle plan 

Try This: I hate spending hours at the church on bulletin boards and getting so burnt out! 🥵 Save your energy by deciding beforehand how you want to lay out your elements ahead of time. Then, on assembly day, you're just stapling. No guesswork. 😎

It Worked For Us: 🕵🏻‍♀️I called this a "crime scene" because we measured the bulletin board dimensions & then made our own at-home replication where we could shuffle things around until we had our desired result!

4. Use a neutral background

Try This: This step goes into helping your future self—or whoever gets to change the bulletin board next😂—years in advance! 🔮 

No one wants to take down the border and background off of the bulletin board in addition to changing it. 🙅🏻‍♀️ Do your bulletin board a favor & use a nice neutral color that will go with any and every color palette you may use with future themes.🎨 

Ideas include:

Straight-up cork board ✨ 

Brown Kraft paper 🤎

Light grey fabric◽️

or any other neutrals you can find! 

For your border, use another neutrally colored ribbon & you’re good to go for wherever the theme takes you in the next few years! 📅 

5. Delegate its creation to save energy & time

Try This: 🙋🏻‍♀️ Been there, done that, and learned that it takes hours to create an effective & beautiful bulletin board kit. You can spend your time on this process (finding an effective color palette, researching meaningful quotes, choosing fonts & images that are cohesive, creating dozens of assets and unified designs...🥵). 

👉But when you say “yes” to the long process of DIY-ing the bulletin board graphics, what other uses of your time are you saying “no” to?

😎 Get that time back by purchasing this supercute bulletin board kit to save you time and sanity, and excite & teach the young women about the theme this 2021 year!

💛 I hope tips like these help you! Before you leave, I want to make sure you know this is NOT the only resource I have to help you as a busy Latter-day Saint. 📌 Follow me on Pinterest to easily see & save all the helpful resources & freebies I’ve made for you. 😉

✨A sparkling water toast to 2021! ✨

free christmas resources

 Merry Christmas! This time if year usually isn’t without lots of to-dos & stress! I’m sharing some FREE 🎁 blog resources to help you cross some of these off of your church list! ✅❤️

QUOTES

Hand lettered Christmas quotes for your home from Church leaders? Yes please! Go & grab yours.

FAMILY NIGHTS

Start a meaningful & simple Christmas tradition! Minister & be someone’s “Angel” with this Family Night kit. 😇 

Introduce the #LightTheWorld theme & initiative to your family. There are FHE kits for your teens, older children & little ones. 

🧑‍🦱👧👶

MINISTERING GIFTS

Even our gifts can keep Christ in Christmas. 🎁 These Bible-based ideas work great for your RS sisters, AD girls or YW! 

Invite & motivate others to pitch in to #LightTheWorld with this themed Christmas gift & poem! ❤️

I hope these freebies help uplift & inspire your Christmas celebrations this year! 🎄Before you go, I just want to make sure you know this is NOT the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint? To see & have all my free resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! 

ven, sígueme 2021

*Leer este post en: Español | Português*

¡Hola, mis amigos hispanohablantes! Estoy muy emocionada—a compartir este recurso con ustedes y estudiar Doctrina y Convenios en 2021.

Nosotros usamos el manual “ven, sígueme” en muchos maneras diferentes. El paquete aquí para ustedes es un recurso para una carpeta de estudio individual.

La carpeta necesita una cubierta y lo tengo. Es muy bello y tiene el templo de Kirtland, un icono de la historia de la iglesia y la restauración. Creo que los flores son lindos también.

Este año tengo muchísimas extras, como una marcapágina con un frase del profeta a motivarles en el estudio de D y C. Hay una espina y pestañas para la carpeta también.

Aquí hay un manera de planear un estudio semanal—cuanto leerían cada día, una impresión para cada día, o cualquiera manera quieren usarlo.

También tengo un recurso de estudio diariamente. Por el medio de la pagina hay espacio para información básica. El espacio con hexágonos a para utilizar—ven que hay cuatro secciones en la página.

Si van a la sección “ideas para estudio individual” en el manual, encontrarían (usualmente) cuatro puntos de pensar en y investigar.

Por ejemplo, del manual 2020, sobre 1 Nefi 11:

“Dios envió a Jesucristo como una expresión de Su amor. Para ayudar a Nefi a comprender el significado del árbol que su padre había visto, un ángel le mostró al “Hijo del Padre Eterno” (1 Nefi 11:21). Esto llevó a Nefi a la conclusión de que el árbol representaba el amor de Dios. Aunque la visión no había finalizado todavía. Al leer 1 Nefi 11, y tras meditar en ello, ¿qué encuentra allí que le permite entender por qué Jesús es la expresión sublime del amor de Dios? Para aprender sobre los otros símbolos en el sueño de Lehi, véanse 1 Nefi 11:35–36; 12:16–18 y 15:21–30. Véase también Juan 3:16.”

— Ven, Sígueme para uso individual y familiar, el libro de mormón 2020

Mirarían preguntas, referencias, y ideas de pasajes en estes párrafos (otra vez, frecuentemente hay cuatro). En cada hexágono, pueden escribirlos incluye ideas y impresiones. Tengo un tutorial con fotos y videos si todavía estan confundido. 

Esta página para notas del domingo es una buena adición a la carpeta. Pueden notar impresiones durante iglesia mientras poder citar otras notas de la semana.

Finalmente es la agenda de leer. ¡Ustedes pueden poner la agenda donde pueden verlo y puede ser un recordatorio para estudiar durante la semana!

¿Lista? Pueden encontrar el paquete acá.

Si hay algunos errores, por favor ¡dime! La mayoría de la materia es fácil (fechas, nombres, números, días de la semana y cosas ya traducido por la iglesia), tan lo traduzco, pero mi hay habitación por error. 

Si quieren encontrar todos los recursos españoles fácilmente, pueden seguir esta Board en Pinterest tan estarían la primera de saber de nuevos recursos en esta idioma.

¡Besos y abrazos!