100 Things I Love Journal Page

Bridges and Eternal Keepsakes

"Genealogies, family stories, historical accounts, and traditions . . . form a bridge between past and future and bind generations together in ways that no other keepsake can."

To learn more: Bridges and Eternal Keepsakes

The Week in Texts

 

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Indexing

Everyone deserves to be remembered and you can help make this possible. No special skills or time commitments are required. Together, we can help people from around the world find and trace their ancestry for free.

To learn more: Indexing Overview

Keeping a Journal Your Way

Keeping a journal can be a fun and exciting way to record your personal history. Consider trying one of these options for preserving your thoughts and experiences.

1. Traditional Journals
2. Online Journals
3. Blogs
4. Scrapbooks
5. Photo Journals
6. Audio Journals
7. Video Journals

Whichever method you choose, as you make the effort to keep a journal and capture your life's story, remember to enjoy the experience as well as be introspective. Doing so will bring blessings both to you and the posterity you leave behind.

To learn more: Keeping a Journal Your Way

My Family Booklet

The "My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together" booklet is an engaging way to capture and preserve your family story. We'll help you record family information, including photos, names, dates, and precious family stories. 

To learn more: My Family Booklet

My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together

The My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together booklet is an engaging way to capture and preserve your family story. We'll help you record family information, including adding photos, names, dates, and precious family stories.

Journal Prompts

Journal is a great way to express emotions, brainstorm, record memories, doodle, problem solve, and get your thoughts down on paper. Are you stumped on what to write? Try one of these Journal Prompts.

1. 25 qualities about yourself
2. 15 things you love to do
3. Your most prized moments
4. 5 things you want to know or learn
5. What do you wish for the most
6. A letter to yourself, past, present, or future
7. I love it when....
8. 10 personal daily affirmations
9. 10 things you would like to accomplish
10. Lists of favorites - shows, songs, food, etc.

What to Include in a Personal Journal

In 1 Nephi 6:3-6 we are told what things should be included in a personal journal.

3 And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father, for they cannot be written upon these plates, for I desire the room that I may write of the things of God.

 4 For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved.

 5 Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world.

 6 Wherefore, I shall give commandment unto my seed, that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not of worth unto the children of men.

Will keeping a personal journal bless me and my family?

The Lord and His prophets have emphasized the importance of keeping records. Writing in a personal journal gives us an opportunity to reflect on our lives and recognize the many blessings God has given to us. Our journals can also be a source of inspiration and strength to future generations of our families.

Examples of record keeping in the scriptures:

• 1 Nephi 1:1-3
• Alma 37:8-9
• Moses 6:5, 45-46

Just a Friendly Reminder

Topics for January and February

The Provident Living topics for January and February 2015 are Family History and Journaling. Blog posts during these months will alternate between the two topics. Please consider these two topics as you consider goals and resolutions for the new year.

Happy New Year!