Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Ring the tuning fork, play the same note on the piano. Ask if the piano is in tune with the tuning fork. Ask why or why not? (piano hasn’t been tuned, humidity, time between tunings, etc.) Make the connection that we need to do certain things to keep ourselves in tune with the Holy Spirit, i.e. prayer, scripture study, church attendance, etc.
Soon after you begin teaching the class, ask for a volunteer to come up. When someone has come up, ask them to finish teaching the lesson and then sit down. After they have been trying to teach something for a short while, stand up and ask them how they felt. Ask if it would have been a little bit easier if you had given them some time to prepare their…
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Start out with both containers about 3/4 full of water. Show the group the orange and explain to them that this represents a youth like them and you can name it “Joe” or “Susie” etc. – – tell them that it represents “Joe” or “Susie” when they do all of the daily things that they have been told will keep them safe, or “afloat” in life such as, daily prayer,…
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Sprinkle baby powder on the page under the front cover of your Book of Mormon or Bible before class or your talk. Keep the book closed. When you pull out your scriptures, open the cover and blow off the baby powder (this looks like dust).
To illustrate the importance of the gospel, display a map. Ask why we use maps. Then compare the map to the gospel. Explain that like a map, the gospel of Jesus Christ guides us. It helps us stay on the path that leads to eternal life with our Heavenly Father. (Source: Teaching, No Greater Call, F: Methods of Teaching, Comparisons and Object Lessons)
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Obtain a harmonica or some other instrument that most folks will likely not know how to play. Ask someone to stand and play a specific church hymn on the instrument. (Be sure to pick someone who doesn’t know how to play it.) When they reply that they can’t, then ask them how they could learn to do so. The answer is to read and study its manual and learn about…
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See how easily this stalk of celery took on the color of water in which it was sitting? Small children are just like that stalk of celery. They take on all the characteristics of the family around them. Is your home colored with anger, yelling, sarcasm, and criticizm? Or is your home colored with patience, cooperation, soft tones and laughter? Children will absorb examples they receive at home. You can…
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