Lesson 7: What happens after death?

Here is the outline that I used for my class on lesson 7 What Happens After Death? This one was pretty much straight from the manual itself...it wasn't all that bad minus the story that one of my young deacons shared about ashes...anyway here is my outline

Lesson 7: What Happens After Death?

OBJECT LESSON: Could have used glove but I chose to have a few of my dramatic students act this out. However I did have the glove as well to reinforce the idea.

When the spirit enters the body- the body can live, work, and act. A spirit combined with a physical body makes a person a living soul. 

READ D&C 88:15-16

      Life was not meant to be forever. One day we will die and the spirit and body will be separated. 

     When separated, the body cannot move. It is dead. But the spirit is still alive. 

? Why is the atonement important to us? (It allows us to overcome mortal death)

Because of this- the separation of the spirit and the body will no be permanent. Each of us will be resurrected. At the time of the resurrection, the body and spirit will be reunited in a perfect state (become alive).

        ***Here is where I had a few questions: 1: Will we have belly buttons when we are resurrected and in that perfect state as it is a scar? and  2: When will we be resurrected?

? What happens after we die but before we are resurrected?

READ Alma 40:11 

READ QUOTE from President Joseph Fielding Smith

READ Alma 34:34

? What will our personalities (spirits) be like when we die?

READ QUOTE from President Brigham Young

     Our spirits will carry to the spirit world the same tendencies, appetites, and desires that we had when we lived on the earth.

READ Alma 40:12-14

   Spirit World: 

       Paradise (state of happiness): those who have accepted the gospel and lived righteously

       Spirit Prison (state of darkness): those who rejected the gospel and those who have died without a knowledge of the truth.

? Why do you think "spirit prison" is an appropriate name? 

RELATE THIS NEXT SECTION TO MISSIONARY WORK 

READ 1 Peter 3:18-20 and D&C 138-29-34

READ QUOTE from Elder Bruce R. McConkie

?Who ministers unto spirits now?

? Whats their message?

READ D&C 138-57

? Whats our duty once we die?

Just like some of you will be asked to serve full time missions to preach the gospel in this life- many of us will be called upon to serve missions in the spirit world to preach the gospel to those spirits in the spirit prison if we have lived righteously..

Testimony and closing prayer