Personal History Day 31

Personal History Day 31 Testimony

Take 15 mins to record your Testimony

You could go into how you gained parts of your testimony.

Personal History Day 30

Personal History Day 30 Major events

Health: major surgeries? Broken bones? Allergies?

World: Major events? Where were you? How have they changed you? Presidents in your life.

Church: Major events? Where were you? How have they changed you? Prophets in your life.

Personal History Day 29

Personal History Day 29 Love

Take 15 minutes to write down things you love about your other half. It could be in list form or write their name in the middle and everything you love about them around the sheet.

Personal History Day 28

Personal History Day 28 Home

Take 15 minutes to write about where you have lived. Talk about features of your houses, where you've lived, what you liked about each house, what made it home etc. You could include a drawing or a layout of the rooms of your houses.

Personal History Day 27

Personal History day 27 baptism

Take 15 mins to write about your baptism

You could include events leading up to your baptism, who was there, feelings you received, etc.

Personal History Day 26

Personal History Day 26 - Questions

Take an hour to answer these questions:

1. What is your favorite Hymn? Why?
2. What is your favorite scripture? Why?
3. What is the one thing you most wish you were great at?
4. What is your favorite Primary song?
5. When was a time that you followed (or didn't follow) the promptings of the Holy Ghost?
6. What do you remember about your baptism day
7. What are some gifts and talents you have?
8. What are some of your blessings?
9. Who are your Book of Mormon heroes?
10. What are your favorite Old Testament stories?
11. What are your favorite New Testament stories?
12. What are your favorite Book of Mormon stories?
13. What are your many roles in life?
14. What do you love about being a woman?
15. What gadgets are you using right now?
16. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
17. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
18. Where do you see yourself in 20 years?
19. What bad habits do you have?
20. Who are some people you look up to (Not in your family)?
21. What regrets do you have?

Personal History Day 25

Personal History Day 25 Random moments

Take 15 minutes to write about your most embarrassing moment, what a typical day is and what moments you would redo if you could.

Personal History Day 24

Personal History Day 24 Lists

Take 15 minutes to make a bunch of lists about you. Here's some ideas:
Your hobbies
Your passions
Your pet peeves
Your dream jobs
Weaknesses and strengths
Cars you've owned
People you'd like to meet

Favorite names
Favorite movies
Favorite music
Favorite books
Favorite TV shows
What states you've traveled to
Things you like about summer, fall, winter, spring
Things that make you smile, sad, confused
Things you want right now
Goals for the next year
Things you wish you could change
Church callings
Things you're thankful for
Things I'd like to try
Random fact about me

Personal History Day 23

Personal History Day 23 Death

Take 15 minutes to write about what you want to do before you die (bucket list), how you feel about death, your beliefs, and any final wishes you may have.

Personal History Day 22

Personal History Day 22 Jobs

Take 15 minutes to write about the jobs you've had. List them, add dates (the ones you know), where, what you did at the job, who you worked with, what you got paid, any promotions, any fun stories, etc.

Personal History Day 21

Personal History Day 21 Hamilton

(If you don't have kids write about pets or a vacation or your favorite thing to do outside or go spend some time with a past subject you need more time with.)

Take 15 mins to write about one of your children. Today will be Hamilton. Write about their birth; when, where, details. Where did you get their name? Fun facts. Funny things they say/said and do/did. Talents? Special stories.

Personal History Day 20

Personal History Day 20 Nolan

(If you don't have kids write about pets or a vacation or your favorite thing to do outside or go spend some time with a past subject you need more time with.)

Take 15 mins to write about one of your children. I choose to start with Nolan. Write about their birth; when, where, details. Where did you get their name? Fun facts. Funny things they say/said and do/did. Talents? Special stories.

Personal History Day 19

Personal History Day 19

Sunday 1 hour challenge! Siblings!

Take an hour to write about your siblings. Memories, What have you learned from them? What is your relationship like now? How was your relationship? Special talents they have? What is their personality like?

Personal History Day 18

Personal History Day 18 friends

Take 15 minutes to write about your best friends. Write a list of the friends you had/have and when/where you were friends. Maybe write a memory for each? Something you learned from each of them. What makes you think of them. What you did to have fun.

Personal History Day 17

Personal History Day 17 college

Take 15 minutes to write about college

Where was your school? What did you study? Who were your teachers? Do you remember any lessons? What are you glad you learned about? Mascot? What was your favorite thing to learn/study? Who were your friends? What did you do for fun?

Personal History Day 16

Personal History Day 16 high school

Take 15 minutes to write about high school

Where was your school? Who were your teachers? Do you remember any lessons? What are you glad you learned about? Mascot? What was your favorite thing to learn/study? Who was your friends? What did you guys do for fun?

Personal History Day 15

Personal History Day 15 Middle school

Take 15 minutes to write about middle school

Where was your school? Who were your teachers? Do you remember any lessons? What are you glad you learned about? Mascot? What was your favorite thing to learn/study? Who was your friends?

Personal History Day 14

Personal History Day 14 Elementary School

Take 15 minutes to write about elementary school.

Where was your school? Who were your teachers? Do you remember any lessons? What are you glad you learned about? Mascot? (I was a Hanna Holbrook Hooter! Later changed to a Huskie) What was your favorite thing to learn/study? Who was your friends? What did you guys do during recess?

Personal history day 13

Personal History Day 13 Childhood (before school)

Today take 15 minutes to write about childhood before school. Write about memories, stories, where you were living etc. Basically what ever comes to mind when you think of life before school. Make sure you write who told you the story if you don't remember the story but someone told you about it.

Personal History Day 12

Personal history day 12 Wedding

Sunday 1 hour challenge

Today I want to take 1 hour to write about meeting Luke, getting engaged and our wedding. I'm excited to take the time to write my thoughts down. I have a photo wedding book but it doesn't have any writing :) It's a special experience that I would like to take an hour (or more) to write!

Personal History Day 11

Personal history day 11 Husband

Take 15 mins to write about your other half, mine is Luke :)

I'm going to spend time later writing about our wedding (including how we met) so I want to write everything I know about Luke about his life before me :) I don't know if Luke will ever write a personal history so I'd like to write about him for our kids. It's just 15 mins so it's not going to be everything, just the facts...maybe a few stories.

Personal History Day 10

Personal History Day 10 Grandma E

I'm going to spend 15 mins writing about my mom's mom, my Grandma E. I'd like to include:

*What is her full name? How did she get it? What was her nicknames?
*When and where was she born?
*My favorite memories of her
*Things I learned from her
*Favorite colors, foods, etc.

Personal History Day 9

Personal History Day 9 Grandpa E

I'm going to spend 15 mins writing about my mom's dad, my Grandpa E. I'd like to include:

*What is his full name? How did he get it? What was his nicknames?
*When and where was he born?
*My favorite memories of him
*Things I learned from him
*Favorite colors, foods, etc.

Personal History Day 8

Personal History Day 8 Grandma P

I'm going to spend 15 mins writing about my dad's mom, my Grandma P. I'd like to include:

*What is her full name? How did she get it? What was her nicknames?
*When and where was she born?
*My favorite memories of her
*Things I learned from her
*Favorite colors, foods, etc.

Personal History Day 7

Personal History Day 7 Grandpa P

I'm going to spend 15 mins writing about my dad's dad, my Grandpa P. I'd like to include:

*What is his full name? How did he get it? What was his nicknames?
*When and where was he born?
*My favorite memories of him
*Things I learned from him
*Favorite colors, foods, etc.

Personal History Day 6

Personal History Day 6 Dad

I'm going to spend 15 mins writing about my dad. I'd like to include:

*What is his full name? How did he get it?  What was his nicknames?
*When and where was he born?
*My favorite memories of him
*Things I learned from him
*Favorite colors, foods, etc.

Personal History Day 5

Personal History Day 5 1 hour challenge

On Sundays I want to spend some more time on my personal history. So to jump start this I decided to do the one hour challenge I found on Pinterest.  Here's the link.

You have to click on the picture and it's still pretty small but you can still read it.

Basically you set a timer for 1 hour and start writing:

*Begin with your name; write down what ever you can about it.
*Then write about everything you know about your birth; when, where, stories
*Write about your family members; parents, siblings, grandparents. KISS (Keep it simple sister) and only write about facts (Birthdays, names,  and birth places)
*List all the schools you went to. Don't go into detail!
*List organizations you joined; High school band, Girl scouts, Primary, clubs
*List important church dates: blessing, baptism, endowment, sealing
*List date, location, other important details about your marriage. Then list children's names, birthday, and birth places. Include important life changes: deaths, marriage, jobs, or moves. (KISS)
*How have you spent your adult life? At work, at home, etc

And your done :)

There's other ideas on the page. I took some of them to inspire other days this month but you can read over them and keep writing if you want.

Personal History Day 4

Personal History Day 4 Mom

I'm going to spend 15 mins writing about my mom. I'd like to include:

*What is her full name? How did she get it? What was her nicknames?
*When and where was she born?
*My favorite memories of her
*Things I learned from her
*Favorite colors, foods, etc.

Personal History Day 18

Personal History Day 3

Personal History Day 3 Timeline


So today I wrote each year I have been alive along the side of a paper and major events in my life that happened that year.
For example:
1997: 11th birthday, 6th grade, moved to *****
1998: 12th birthday, 7th grade, YWs (beehives)
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2004: 18th birthday, Graduated high school, FCCLA Chicago, job at Riot Zone, Purse stolen, ISU
2005: 19th birthday, Move out, job at Gameworld, Got a cell phone, ISU,

So no there's no deals but it's helped to get things in the right order and I remembers stuff along the way.

For the rest of the month it'll be nice to have this to refer to. I"d like to type this up some how, but I can't find a program I like... I might just have to leave it in this format.

Personal History Day 2

Personal History Day 2 I worked on family history :)

I've been helping my grandma put together my Grandpa's history. I wanted to see what records we could get from the church. Did you know that you can get mission calls/recommendations for anyone who received them prior to 1912? Pretty cool huh?! I can't wait to tell her next time I go to her house to work on his history. Even tho it won't do anything for my grandpa (he was in the army instead of going on a mission) it will help with Grandma's dad :) can't wait!!! Also Luke was really interested so I think we will try it for his family! I'm thinking birthday gift for his dad.

Personal History Day 1

Day one:

I started a little late but I worked on my photo wall January 1

I love the way it turned out! There are some fun memories here. An added bonus is Nolan loves to point at everyone and say their names! He's learning about his family and I want to start telling stories so he knows his family

So day one: Photos :) Look through them they will jog your memory and get you excited! As my mom says... "if it's not in a photograph or written down it didn't happen!"

Personal history month

I've been prompted this month to focus on Personal history. So I decided that each day in the month of January I'm going to do a little bit of my personal history.

I think it all started when I read my grandma's personal history so I could give her life sketch at her funeral. All the stories she wrote down she had told me before. I wish we had more stories tho. I don't know if anyone will be interested in my history like I am in my Grandma's but it's part of my history and we've been asked to write it down :)

Each day I'll post the prompt on here so I can be accountable and remember some of the little things I wanted to write down. I won't write my history here just the prompts... it's a little too personal to broadcast it to the world :)

Join with me if you'd like! You don't have to do it everyday or in January. You can start when ever as long as you start!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)