by Shawnie Cannon | Dec 26, 2022 | Leadership Skills
Part of A Happier Ward Series – (ward health) A Clear and Easy Guide In April of 2018, President Nelson announced the end of visiting and home teaching. “We have made the decisions to retire home teaching and visiting teaching as we have known them. Instead, we...
by Shawnie Cannon | Jul 29, 2022 | Leadership Skills
Part of A Happier Ward Series – (ward health) Joy and Celebration I hope you don’t mind; I borrowed this first bit from a recent ‘Come, Follow Me’ reading assignment. In the Old Testament, spiritual occasions are often marked with happiness and...
by Shawnie Cannon | Jul 13, 2022 | Leadership Skills
Another Grueling Semester Bites the Dust You may have noticed there have been no new posts lately? That’s because I just finished up a hard class in school called “Interactive Graphic Design.” My actual major is web media and this is one of those...
by Shawnie Cannon | Jul 1, 2022 | Leadership Skills
Part of A Happier Ward Series – (warmth of congregation) First, this will push back on some rather darling, personal cultural teachings for a few people. If this is you – please read the quotes by Elder Oaks and Sister Beck more than once and contemplate...
by Shawnie Cannon | May 28, 2022 | Leadership Skills
Part of A Happier Ward Series – (warmth of congregation) In Primary, we teach the children that reverence means “be quiet.” We have a generation of adults whose primary interpretation of reverence still is “be quiet.” If this happened to you, don’t feel unusual....
by Shawnie Cannon | May 23, 2022 | Leadership Skills
Part of A Happier Ward Series – (ward health) Has your ward or branch fully adopted President Nelson’s “Ministering”? Would it surprise you that a lot of wards haven’t caught on to it? Here are the results of a recent poll....