Personal Progress Tips

Here are a few short & sweet tips on how to make personal progress a little easier & hopefully more meaningful! I definitely used these to help me finish my personal progress, especially the sticky notes one! I hope they help you stay motivated to do personal progress!!

Personal Progress Tips!

* Try working on your personal progress online. You won’t have to keep track of your book! Search online for lds.org personal progress. All you need is your membership number (ask your ward clerk, they usually hang out around the bishop’s office) to set up your LDS account with a username and password.

* Each time you read a scripture or article, mark it with a highlighter or colored pencil. The next time you open your book, you won’t have to re-read the same scripture – you can go on to the next one.

*Use a dry erase marker to write a reminder message to yourself on your bedroom mirror. “Don’t gossip for 2 weeks”

* Use sticky notes to remind yourself of your goal that you are working on. “Read the Book of Mormon every night”

*Have you given a talk, been in a play, are you on a sports team, learning a musical instrument, served others, etc. You are already doing so many good things… get credit for it in personal progress!

XOXO,

Savannah 

Faith Value Project Ideas

To start out the month of personal progress, we'll be starting at the beginning of the values - faith! I want to share with you what I did for my project & other ideas of things you could do. I think the projects are one of the hardest but most fun parts of personal progress. You can do so much with them!

I completed my faith project in October 2013. I based it around general conference! To prepare, I bought a cute little notebook specifically for the conference. Then I decorated pages in the front of the notebook with pictures of all of the general authorities and little quotes from talks they had given.

(Once again - photo quality. I am so sorry!! I'll get better at this but I really wanted to get this post up, so I just used my phone again!)

I also had a page dedicated to quotes about faith (this was my faith project, after all!).

Then, during conference, I stayed awake & actually listened to all of the talks (something I do every time now!) and took notes for every speaker.

After conference, I went back through all of my notes and made goals for the next six months based on the prophet's counsel. I also wrote my thoughts on conference and my testimony of the truths that were spoken during it!

This was really a great project!! Before it, watching general conference was kind of a struggle for me. I definitely think it helped me realize the importance of conference! It also gave me answers that I so needed at that point in time. One of them was whether or not I should receive my patriarchal blessing - and I felt like it was a solid yes! I received it on November 10th, 2013.

If my project isn't really clicking with ya, here are a few more great ideas! (Faith was definitely one of the hardest values for me to find a project for.) Keep in mind that they need to total up to 10 hours:

*Write letters to missionaries

*Keep a scripture journal and write in it every day

*Memorize scripture masteries

*Memorize "The Living Christ"

*Memorize an inspiring poem

*Learn how to cross-stitch and make something that describes your feelings about the gospel

*Grow a garden

*Record stories from family or ward members who've demonstrated faith and compile a family history

*Create a website/blog featuring the YW values and your personal testimony (or an Instagram account!)

*Film interviews of friends and family members talking about their faith in Christ, then edit the video and set it to music

*Visit a church history location and create a scrapbook based on the trip, highlighting the faith of church members of that time period

*Write a book, play, song, short story or poem about faith

*Create a work of art that describes your feelings about the gospel

*Compile a family testimony book

*Sew scripture bags to give primary kids when they're baptized

*Make baptism books to give to primary kids when they're baptized

*Make a scrapbook about faith

(Disclaimer: I do not take credit for all of these ideas!! Huge shoutout to various websites & bloggers for 80% of these)

I hope you got a few ideas from this post!! Let me know if you like the formatting of it or if you would rather see these posts organized differently - I'm experimenting with it!

XOXO,

Savannah