Marriage Fireside Invitation
This fireside invitation was submitted by Dawn T. who used it to accompany her Dating and Celestial Marriage Fireside.
Tag Archive: Dating
Youth Marriage Booklets
This “My Celestial Marriage” Booklet was submitted by Dawn T. who used it to accompany her Dating and Celestial Marriage Fireside. Each young man and woman was given a copy of the booklet to use to help them plan and prepare for a celestial marriage.
Celestial Marriage Fireside Description
This activity description was submitted by Dawn T. who used it to teach and organize her Dating and Celestial Marriage Fireside. Thanks SO much for these materials and ideas, Dawn!
DO try this at home! Object lessons for YM/YW on virtue, dating, repentance and more
One of my friends, Anthony Sweat and I wrote a book on WHY teens should live LDS Standards. As part of this book we included object lessons that parents (or the teens themselves) could use in a teaching setting. Deseret Book has allowed us to take eight of these object lessons and share them. They are on topics that are tender to teens: steady dating, eternal marriage, sexual purity, gratitude,…
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Teen Dating Violence
Teen Dating Violence Are you going out with someone who … * Is jealous and possessive, won’t let you have friends, checks up on you, won’t accept breaking up? * Tries to control you by being bossy, giving orders, making all the decisions, not taking your opinions seriously? * Puts you down in front of friends, tells you that you would be nothing without him or her? * Scares you?…
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Healthy Relationships
Your relationship is healthy when… You trust your partner. Your partner likes your friends, encourages you to spend time with them, and wants to include them in his life as well as yours. You make important decisions together. Your partner understands when you want to spend time away from him. You don’t have to lie to protect your partner’s reputation or cover for his mistakes. Your partner encourages you to…
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Dating Decisions
This handout was submitted by A. Mitchell. Thank you!!! It has some dating suggestions and quotes, along with a place to write information about your personal dating guidelines. Goes with YW Manual 3, Lesson 35. 8 1/2 x 11 inch black and white.
Group Dating Worksheet
Has quotations and space for the brainstorming activity in YW Manual 1, Lesson 31.
Husband Resume
Tennisa N. says, “This is a handout I created for YW Manual 3, Lesson 4, Preparing to Become an Eternal Companion. The idea is to first give the YW the Resume to fill out with what they desire in their future husbands. Then after they have completed their wish list, you give them the Kimball Quote card (cut out and folded in half to be the size of a business…
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Rose – color
This is the Chris Gunn rose image in color.
YW Maze
This black and white image, Yw Maze, was donated by the artist, Chris Gunn. Click to read more about Chris.
Lesson 31/Manual 1
Oh the joys of dating. There were some good ideas out there on where to go with this lesson. My favorite and the one I’m going to base this lesson on was “Try all the flavors before you decide on your favorite” which I found here.
Of course I plan so much better when I have a theme within my lesson. So ice cream it is!!
How do we know what we like in a guy if we only date one? We need to have lots of different experiences with dating and the best way to experience more than one guy is to group date. We may realize we like our ice cream a little nutty and are kind of bored with plain vanilla. : )
I loved this quote from Robert. D. Hales: “Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.”1 Date young men who make you want to be a better person. “Be your best self” so you can be a good influence to those you date.
Those are the kind of people you want to date, friends.
This came from a great talk by the YW general pres. on advice to YW on dating. Would be a great
addition to the lesson.
Something else that I would address in this lesson is “hanging out” and how that is different from dating
but that we still need to be careful and sometimes avoid it. This talk by Brad Wilcox would be a great
reference for teaching this.
Ok for a little treat to go with my quotes and scriptures you could do those ice cream cone pop up toys.
You push that button on the side and the ice cream pops off, do you remember those? I bet you could
find something like this at the dollar store.
or if you’re feeling really creative you could do these cake pop ice cream cones. Make cake pops and cut the tips off of sugar cones, dip your cake ball in pink chocolate melts let set, drizzle chocolate melts over top and add a pink or red candy “cherry” on top.
Or you could make ice cream cone suckers. I found this mold on Amazon for $1.70
some brown chocolate melts for the cone and any or many color melts for the ice cream. Cute!!
For a hand out I would do the cupcakes in a cone.
Here are instructions on how to make them by Betty Crocker.
Maybe even make them a Neapolitan ice cream cupcake by mixing three different batters
can’t find where I got this image from originally, sorry
Then of course you want to package them up cute. I loved the dipped cones as well as the cute bow.
I’ve made a tag you can attach to these cute cones as well as a group date idea sheet.
download this tag here
download this sheet here
And just for something fun I found this cute “dating application” you could give to each of your girls. And in all seriousness these are some legitimate questions you should be asking.
here’s the application
*Also please let me know if you aren’t able to download my printables and I will email you a copy directly. Be sure you email me by Saturday night before your lesson so I can get it to you in time, I have early church. : ) My email is on my side bar.
Have a great lesson!
