| PERSONAL PROGRESS PROJECT IDEAS 1. Volunteer to help your grandparents compile their life history. Help by tape recording, writing or typing their stories, then prepare as a gift to other family members. 2. Talk with a returned missionary and learn possible ways of approaching a non-member friend concerning the gospel. Then do it. Make it a class project and invite the non-member to class & continue fellowshipping. 3. Make a project to study the scriptures and Church publications to learn the requirements for a family to attain celestial life. Present these to your family in a family home evening lesson and help them set goals to work toward. Work on this for 3 months. 4. Have a project to interest your younger brothers and sisters in the scriptures. Read them a scripture you especially like and which has helped you in your life. Read the scriptures with them for a few minutes several times a week. Do for 3 months. 5. Make lap quilts for the elderly in a nursing hone and deliver them in �I Care� packages. 6. Take a Family Home Evening program to hospitals or nursing homes and into several homes in your own ward where there is illness or special need. 7. Serve a delicious meal to everyone in your ward over 65. As part of your entertainment spotlight events or experiences in their lives which are inspirational and interesting. 8. Bishops and Bishop�s wives often give so much of their time to others that help in their yards and homes would be appreciated (clean windows, scrub floors, iron, mow lawns, etc.). 9. Knit or crochet slippers for patients in rest homes. 10. Organize an Arts & Crafts Festival in your ward exhibiting the artwork of Church members and non-members. Spotlight the work of youth. Make a special effort to find artwork done by those who are elderly or handicapped or those who need fellowshipping. 11 Consider with your family the possibility of conducting a Family Night once a month with an inmate at the prison, building a close relationship to aid in rehabilitation. 12. Organize a talent show and travel to nursing homes, hospitals, parties, etc. to perform. 13. As canning season arrives have a mother as a specialist teach you and your class how to can. Do a separate canning project then at home. 14. Learn bread making. Grind the wheat, make, knead, shape and bake. Experiment with many imaginative ways to shape rolls, breads. Become an expert. 15. Start your own notebook of quotations, favorite stories, anecdotes, faith promoting experiences, funny stories or jokes that you would like to use in giving talks or in future assignments. Arrange it alphabetically by subject and file away for special uses. 16. Make puppets and present a show for the primary chi1dren at a ward social. 17. Choose a substitute grandmother in your Ward and do secret acts of kindness and then have an evening to honor her and reveal yourself to her as a substitute granddaughter. 18. Upholster or refinish a piece of furniture for your family. 19. Volunteer for teachers at any schools, i.e., grading, Xeroxing, bulletin boards, etc. 20. Organize a food or supply drive for local food bank, crisis center, or homeless shelter. 21. Help an older person in your ward or stake enter family history information on the computer PAF program. |
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