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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Personality Test

There are only 10 simple questions, so grab a pencil and paper and keep track of your letter answers.

1. When do you feel your best?
A) In the morning
B) During the afternoon and early evening
C) Late at night

2. You usually walk
A) Fairly fast, with long steps
B) Fairly fast, but with short, quick steps
C) Less fast, head up, looking the world in the face
D) Less fast, head down
E) Very slowly

3. When talking to people, you
A) Stand with your arms folded
B) Have your hands clasped
C) Have one or both your hands on your hips
D) Touch or push the person to whom you are talking
E) Play with your ear, touch or chin or smooth your hair

4. When relaxing, you sit with
A) Your knees bent and your legs neatly side by side
B) You legs crossed
C) Your legs stretched out or straight
D) One leg curled under you

5. When something really amuses you, you react with
A) A big, appreciative laugh
B) A laugh, but not a loud one
C) A quiet chuckle
D) A sheepsih smile

6. When you go to a party or social gathering, you
A) Make a loud entrance so everyon enotices you
B) Make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
C) Make a quiet entrance and try to stay unnoticed

7. You are working hard, concentrating hard. You are interruped. You
A) Welcome the break
B) Feel extremely irritated
C) Vary between these two extremes

8. Which of the following colors do you like most
A) Red or Orange
B) Black
C) Yellow or Light Blue
D) Green
E) Dark blue or purple
F) White
G) Brown or Gray

9. When you sleep, you lie
A) Stretched out on your back
B) Stretched out face down on your stomach
C) on your side, slightly curled
D) With your head on one arm
E) With your head under the covers

10. You often dream that you are
A) Falling
B) Fighting or struggling
C) Searching for something or somebody
D) Flying or floating
E) You usually have dreamless sleep
F) Your dreams are always pleasant

Points:

1. A)2 B)4 C)6
2. A)6 B)4 C)3 D)2 E)1
3. A)4 B)6 C)2 D)1 E)5
4. A)6 B)4 C)3 D)5 E)2
5. A)6 B)4 C)3 D)2
6. A)6 B)2 C)4
7. A)6 B)7 C)5 D)4 E)3 F)2 G)1
8. A)7 B)6 C)4 D)2 E)1
9. A)4 B)2 C)3 D)5 E)6 F)1
10.A)2 B)1 C)4 D)6 E)7 F)8

Over 60 Points
You are seen as a vain, self-centered, and extremely dominant. Others may admire you and wish they could be more like you, but they don't always trust you and hesitate to become too deeply involved with you.

From 51-60 Points
Your friends see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, quick to make decisions (though not always the right ones). They see you as bold and venturesome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes a chance and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

From 41-50 Points
Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who is constantly on the move. Also as kind, considerate and understanding. Someone who will cheer them up and help them out.

From 31-40 Points
Other people see you as sensible, cautious, careful and practical. The see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or too easily, but someone who is extremely loyal to the friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize that it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but , equally, that it takes a long time to get over it if that trust is broken.

From 21-30 Points
Your friends see you as painstaking an d fussy. The see you as very, very cautious and extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment. They expect you to examine everything carefully from every side and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction on your part is cause partly by your careful nature.

Under 21 Points
People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs to be looked after, who always wants someone else to make the decisions and who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything. The see you as a worrier, who sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you are boring. Only the people the know you well know that you aren't.

Temple Handkerchief

When I was in Young Women's our Young women presidency gave us each a handkerchief with this poem in a card. The card was title I'm Going There Someday

This handkerchief was made with love
especially for you by __________________ (mine was made by Sister Gloria Dockstader

We want to give you this handkerchief
To remind you we are always concerned
About to who and where you will be married
And how well this principle you have learned,

Have you truly made a commitment
To follow our Father's plan?
That you may kneel in His house
Someday in marriage to a worthy man.

Nothing will bring you greater joy,
When you come to your wedding day,
But to know you kept yourself clean
And pure in a very special way.

Will you save and cherish this handkerchief
Thru the next few years of your life?
To remind you of our Father's plan
To be eternally husband and wife.

And when that beautiful day arrives,
And you've pledged your love so true,
Will you take this lovely handkerchief
To that holy place with you?

Love,

______________________

101 Fun Date Ideas

1. Go for a walk
2. Have a picnic
3. Go camping
4. Build a puzzle
5. Play soccer
6. Fly kites
7. Visit the zoo
8. Go swimming
9. Climb Trees
10. Make cars out of boxes and have a drive-in movie at home
11. Go for a bike ride
12. Plant a garden
13. Go to the skate park
14. Roller skating
15. Have relay races
16. Go to the library
17. Watch home movies
18. Build a tree house
19. Have a snowball fight
20. Play kickball
21. Go bowling
22. Have a garage sale
23. Visit historical sites
24. Go for a hike in the mountains
25. Have a car wash
26. Act out your favorite movie
27. Horseback riding
28. Go fishing
29. Play croquet
30. Make treats for a neighbor
31. Cut pictures from magazines and make a collage
32. Visit temple square
33. Plant a flower garden
34. Go to the beach
35. Play frisbee
36. Go ice skating
37. Have a bicycle rodeo
38. Play volleyball
39. Make a miniature gold course
40. Go for ice cream
41. Make ice cream
42. Have a scavenger hunt
43. Visit a museum
44. Play softball
45. Make instruments and have a band
46. Have a fashion show
47. Play board games
48. Make and pull homemade taffy
49. Have a water fight
50. Go to the rodeo
51. Make home videos
52. Plan a party
53. Go river tubing
54. Have a road rally
55. Hold a story hour
56. Go sledding
57. Play football
58. Make boats out of things around the house then try them out
59. Put on a puppet show
60. Go to the fair
61. Go miniature golfing
62. Play water balloon volleyball
63. Make lemonade and sell it
64. Birthday parties
65. Have a pet show
66. Go Christmas caroling
67. Go paint balling
68. Visit the pet store
69. cook a dutch oven dinner
70. have a pillow fight
71. make salt dough ornaments
72. have a date bake-off
73. tie-dye shirts
74. Go to local sporting events
75. Finger painting
76. Eat dinner without silverware
77. Go dancing
78. Have a water balloon fight
79. Go to musical concerts
80. Make ginger bread houses
81. Rake leaves and jump in them
82. Have a karioke night
83. Do a creative service project
84. Make homemade Easter baskets
85. Make popsicle stick crafts
86. Put on a dinner show
87. Photo scavenger hunt
88. Make house out of refrigerator boxes
89. Hold "Teacher Appreciation Dinners"
90. Make your own Halloween costumes
91. Put together a box of items for a family in need
92. Make dinner together
93. Make sidewalk art with chalk
94. Go to a play
95. Movie marathon, you pick the movies
96. Have a magic show
97. Make holiday treats
98. Build a snowman
99. Shovel the neighbor's snow
100. Go for a drive and play road games or sing songs
101. Have a watermelon eating contest

Questions to ask yourself?

1. Do I study and ponder the scriptures in an effort to know the will of God and understand His commandments regarding His children?

2. Do I follow the counsel of God's living prophet, or do I merely select those things with which I agree, disregarding the others?

3. Do I seek the advice and counsel of my bishop and stake president on matters of concern to me and my family?

4. Am I earnestly striving to discipline myself, placing my physical appetites under the subjection of my will?

5. Am I making every effort to repent of past or present wrongdoings and correct them by doing right?

6. Do I have an attitude of faith in God even though I experience trials, adversity, and affliction? And do I bear my burden without a complaining spirit?

The Family:A Proclamation to the World

Here is the link to the Proclamation on the Family that was read by Gordon B. Hinckley to the General Relief Society Meeting on Sept. 23, 1995.

The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Around the Corner

Around the corner I have a friend,

In this great city that has no end;

Yet days go by, and weeks rush on,

And before I know it a year is gone,

And I never see my old friend's face,

For life is a swift and terrible race.

He knows I like him just as well

As in the days when I rang his bell

And he rang mine. We were younger then,

And now we are busy, tired men:

Tired with playing a foolish game,

Tired with trying to make a name.

"Tomorrow," I say, "I will call on Jim,

Just to show I am thinking of him."

But tomorrow comes - and tomorrow goes,

And the distance between us grows and grows.

Around the corner! - yet miles away . .

"Here's the telegram, Sir. . .

'Jim died today'."

And that's what we get, and deserve in the end:

Around the corner, a vanished friend.

- by Charles Hanson Towne


If you love someone, tell them. Don't be afraid to express yourself. Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you. Because when you decide that it is the right time it might be too late.

Seize the day. Never have regrets. And most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person that you are today.