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Old Testament SM Mnemonics

Here are the new Scripture Mastery mnemonics for the Old Testament. One of the most useful (yet hardest) parts of scripture mastery is helping your students to memorized the key words to the references.  Mnemoics are a great way to help your students with this.  The first page is instructions on how to use the mnemonics effectively.  Many teachers print off the mnemonic for the week they are spotlighting that scripture mastery. new_ot_mnemonics.pdfFile Size: 2632 kbFile Type […]

I need your help

Hello Friends. I need your help again. Please also pass this on to anyone who might be interested. As you know, the 25 Old Testament scripture masteries have changed significantly from 4 years ago.  Because of those changes I want to ask for your creative help in figuring out new mnemonics to help students learn the references from the key words. Good scripture mastery mnemonics have some common characteristics.  There is something in the key words, that could spark and idea or […]

Scripture Mastery Video Clips

We have a great seminary teacher here that make some incredible Scripture Mastery Clips to help with a doing scripture mastery or a Scripture Bowl in a stake. The Scripture Clips DVD for D&C Church History is now available for free download! These movie clips, TV ads and animations provide a fun, fresh and memorable approach to the Scripture Mastery verses that will have your students on the edge of their seats. This year we have appearances by The Princess Bride, the Sandlot, even Wo […]

Official Headings for Official  Declarations 1 & 2

In 2013 the Church placed very insightful headings to go in all new scriptures for Official Declaration # 1 concerning plural marriage, and Official Declaration #2 concerning priesthood ordinations to all worthy male members.  Although some of your class members might already have scriptures with these new headings, most will not, so I wanted to provide them as glue-ins.  The headings are also found in the scriptures at LDS.org and the Gospel Library app that many have on phones and t […]

Funeral Program for Joseph Smith -D&C 135

This is one of my favorite lessons for the D&C year.  To teach D&C 135 about the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, I like to hold funeral services. With the services outlined here, it has the class read and listen to all of D&C 135, and hear the words of Parley P. Pratt, Lucy Mack Smith, and John Taylor.  You may want to ask the students you assign those parts to dress up for the services. You will also need to ask a class representative to conduct and one to give the accomplishm […]

Activity for D&C 129

For this demonstration have your class read the nine verses of Section 129 and be ready for a quiz. Explain that they will need to identify the 3 types of messengers that can appear to someone, and how to identify them properly.After the reading, get a chair to stand on, and 6 volunteers (2 to act our each situation below). Give them a little time to discuss how to act out their assigned situation, and who will be the messenger.After each pair performs, ask the class if they are an “Angel […]

D&C 128 Worksheet

Doctrine & Covenants 128 is a letter from Joseph Smith to the Saints explaining the revealed practice of Baptisms for the Dead.  In the letter he uses many verses from the Bible to explain the practice. This worksheet helps your students see why Joseph used these scriptures, and also see how they could also use the scriptures when talking with a friend.  d&c_128_worksheet.pdfFile Size: 11 kbFile Type: pdfDownload File […]

Liberty Jail D&C 121-123 Helps

Here is the PowerPoint and a visual I used when I taught the Multi-Stake Training in January.  The PowerPoint has stories and visual you might like.  The best parts is having the kids list on the board what they learned from the verses listed.The second attachment is the full text of the letter Joseph wrote from Liberty. D&C 121-123 was taken from the very large letter written by Joseph Smith a few weeks before the group escaped. Although the two part letter was written in 1839, i […]

Helps for D&C 109-116

The first document is various quotes and images that will help as you each D&C 109-114.  It is amazing how the Church could go from such and incredible spiritual high with the dedication of the Kirtland Temple, to the low of a huge apostasy in Kirtland, with in such a short period of time. The second document is a glue in that is useful when teaching D&C 116 explaining Adam-ondi-Ahman and its significance.  d&c_109-114_handout.pdfFile Size: 341 kbFile Type: pdfDown […]

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