November 2014 Overview

Theme: Property/Work

Secondary Theme: The Buck Stops Here - Taking Personal Responsibility

Principles: 
If I want to have wisdom, then I must accept responsibility for my own problems.

If I accept responsibility for my past, then I am free to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.

If I look forward, then my history will not control my destiny.

If I want to change where I am today, them I must change the way I think.

If I choose to be around others who are working and striving to bring about positive change in the world, then my mind will live in the possibilities of the future not the problems of the past.

If I make a decision, then I will stand behind it understanding that God did not give me the ability to always make right decisions but He did give me the ability to MAKE a decision and then MAKE IT RIGHT.

If I control my thoughts, then I control my emotions.

If I see challenges as opportunities to learn and difficulties as preparation for greatness, then I will be prepared for something great.

If the buck stops here, then I am responsible for my success.

Time Period: 

and the Rise of Communism

Scripture:

"Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself."

---2 Nephi 2:27

Memorization: 

"Builder or Wrecker"

I watched them tearing a building down,
A gang of men in a busy town.
With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell,
They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.
I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,
As the men you’d hire if you had to build?”
He gave me a laugh and said, “No indeed!
Just common labor is all I need.
I can easily wreck in a day or two
What builders have taken a year to do.”
And I tho’t to myself as I went my way,
Which of these two roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
Measuring life by the rule and square?
Am I shaping my deeds by a well-made plan,
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker who walks the town,
Content with the labor of tearing down?

Apprentice Book for the Month:

"Little Britches" by Ralph Moody

To split the book up evenly throughout the month, you can follow this schedule:

Week 1: Leadership Academy - ch. 1-7

week 2: History - ch. 8-15

week 3: Eureka - ch. 16-23

week 4: Imaginative Arts - ch. 24 - end