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Jennifer Smith
March 19, 2005
To show that ordinances and covenants are inseparable, display a coin. Then ask which side of the coin is more important. (Neither side is more important.) Ask learners if they can separate the sides of the coin. Then explain that ordinances and covenants are inseparable, just as the two sides of a coin are inseparable. Also point out that ordinances and covenants are necessary for admission into God’s presence, just…
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Jennifer Smith
October 11, 2004
In order to demonstrate the importance of waiting for your big spritual reward rather than indulging yourself in “worldy rewards”, put a cookie in front of the child/children and ask them if they would like to enjoy it by eating it now. After all of the children have decided whether they would like to eat it or not you then present a humongus dessert such as a banana split or…
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Jennifer Smith
September 22, 2004
Get two envelopes; put a picture of the temple on one envelope. Put cut-outs (paper dolls? magazine people?) of family members in each envelope. Seal shut the envelope with the temple picture. All the while, talk about the one family going to the temple and the other not going. Then dump both envelopes containing families upside down. The family in the envelope that was not sealed will fall out all…
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Jennifer Smith
September 22, 2004
Display the doormat, and point out that it is put in front of the door to provide those who enter the opportunity to wipe the dirt and debris from their feet so that they will not soil the inside of the home. Explain that Heavenly Father has also place a doormat outside his home. It is known as repentance. Repentance enables us to remove the things from our lives that…
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