Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
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I’m posting this out of order, but I taught Deuteronomy last week. Just catching up. On the easel I wrote the following for Deuteronomy 8: Blessings of REMEMBERING v 2 v3 v4 v5 Dangers of FORGETTING v11 vv12-14 v17 v19 Here’s what I had in my notes: Blessings of REMEMBERING v 2 – God led thee, proved thee v3 – God humbled thee, fed thee, taught thee v4 – clothes…
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For the 10 commandments lesson, I wrote the following chart on the board: 1 – Deuteronomy 5:1-8 2 – footnote f, D&C 68:25 3 – footnote b, Mormon 7:7, D&C 58:30 4 – Exodus 31:12-17, Deuteronomy 5: 12-15 5 – Deuteronomy 11: 8-9, 17, 21; Helaman 7:24 6 – footnote a 7 – 8 – 9 – footnote a 10 – Matthew 5:28 I had the kids list the 10…
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Here’s the lesson report for Monday – Thursday this week. Exodus 1-2 Today we began the story of Moses and the Exodus. I debated for a while whether or not to focus this lesson in on courageous women or courageous people. I went back and forth for several days trying to decide whether it would come off too feminazi to focus in on just the courageous women…. Eventually I decided…
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For today’s reading I asked the kids to read 1 Nephi 13: 19-29, 40; 1 Nephi 14:23 and Mormon 7:8-9. Our discussion today was on whether the Bible was inferior scripture or not. They’ve heard all their lives that “plain and precious parts” have been removed, and the difficulty of reading the Bible sometimes means it gets less attention in the Church. I wanted to debunk that idea and give…
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Items Needed: A feather, a large rock Lesson Idea: Place the feather on a table and ask someone to come and blow the feather off the table. Place the rock on the table and have another person come and try to blow it off the table. You may want to have several people together try to blow the rock off the table. Discussion: We must be strong. Our testimonies must…
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Items Needed: A raw egg, food coloring, hypodermic needle (see your local pharmacy), a clear bowl. Previous Preparation: Color the inside of the egg by injecting it with the needle full of food coloring. Lesson Idea: Show the egg. Put it into the clear bowl. Ask your family to tell you everything they know about an egg. Describe an egg. What is the egg’s potential? What are its uses? What…
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Items Needed: A fly swatter Lesson Idea: Show the fly swatter and ask your family what it is. What is it for? (Killing flies.) What other insects can we swat? Why do we use fly swatters? (To keep our homes cleaner and to be free from annoying insects.) What are things in our spiritual lies we can and should swat? Read Mosiah 4:30 If we allow flies to fly freely…
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Items Needed: One small sewing needle or pin. Lesson Idea: Hold the pin up in the air and tell the participants that you are going to conduct an experiment. You are going to drop the pin on the desk and would like everyone to be quiet so they can all hear it. Drop the pin and have all participants who heard it raise their hands. Repeat the experiment until each…
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Items Needed: Paper for each participant Pens or Pencils for each participant Lesson Idea: Have a volunteer come up to the table with a piece of paper on it. Without lifting the pencil off the paper, have them draw a simple unfamiliar pattern without letting the other participants see it. (Not just a simple shape like a triangle or circle.) Then have the volunteer describe the pattern to the others….
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Items Needed: Rope A cloth to protect the wrists Lesson Idea: Ask for two volunteers. Have one tie the other’s hands with the rope (over the cloth as not to cause injury or pain). What are things the tied up participant can’t do in this condition? What are things that can tie us up spiritually? What do they prevent us from doing or becoming? When we sin, we restrict our…
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Items Needed: Breakable object that can be fixed with glue Glue A raw Egg A bowl Lesson Idea: Break the breakable item (or show two broken pieces) and have a participant come up and glue them together. Discuss making mistakes and making restitution. Break the egg in the bowl and have another student come up and try to put the egg back together with glue. Discuss why it cannot be…
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