Lesson 27: Not of the World

*So I know it has been a while since I have updated this blog. I have been team teaching with another lady and we have been switching every other week so it has been hard for me to keep up when I haven't had to prepare a lesson. So I am going to spend some time getting caught up on lessons so be looking forward to that.*

Moving on to lesson 27. I have a confession to make. Whenever I teach I always go to Sugardoodle and look for ideas on how to go about teaching my lesson. I use that as a starting point and then go from there. One idea that they had on the site for this lesson was a video that I really liked and I think I will show it (if I can get a download to work) and if not I will have the class act it out.

 I really liked the message that the story tells. You can find the talk HERE. It was told by President Gordon B. Hinckley who retold it from a talk given by Elder Robert B. Harbertson in a 1989 General Conference.  Like I said, I really enjoyed the message. When I first saw the title of this lesson I was taken back to a mutual we did in YW's when I was still a leader titled our Dr. Seuss Night which you can find HERE it takes the analogy of Satan pressuring us to the classic story Green Eggs and Ham. Crazy I know but there is a great correlation between the two, trust me. Go check it out! Anyway, since I have some of the young women in my sunday school class, I didn't really want to use the same thing again so that is another reason why I want to use this video. For the hand out I am taking another idea from Sugardoodle (the mormanad from the first of this post shrunk down into a wallet size picture and then attaching a blowpop to it since I have no air heads or balloons to attach and no time to get to the store. On the back of the Mormonad I have typed up the story of the snake as taken from the talk by President Hinckley with an image of a rattle snake on it. Feel free to copy and paste this into a word document and size it up so that it fits on the back of the mormonad handout. 

"An Indian boy climbed a high mountain.

 It was cold up there. At his feet was a snake,

 a rattle snake. The snake was cold and

 pleaded with the young man to pick it up and

 take it down where it was warmer.

The Indian boy listened to the enticings of the

 serpent. He gave in. He gathered it up into

 his arms and cove red it with his shirt. He

 carried it down the mountain to where it

was warm. He gently put it on the grass.

When the snake was warm it raised its head

and struck the boy with its poisonous fangs.

The boy cursed at the snake for striking

 him as an answer to his kindness.

The snake replied,

"YOU KNEW WHAT I WAS

WHEN YOU PICKED ME UP."

Elder Robert B. Harbertson

 

Outline for Lesson 6

Sorry that this late in posting...I had caught a nice little cold that has just made my life a little more complicated (on top of school and what not) so I am now just getting the outline for the lesson that I taught last Sunday up. I have decided that I am just going to type them up on here instead of in a word document so you can see the whole thing with out downloading (plus it saves me room on my 4shared account).

Lesson 6: Adversity Can Help Us Grow

Show Mormon Message of "My New Life" Click HERE to be taken to the video/link.

Talk about the video

* I want you to think back to the lesson on Adam and Eve 

? What was life like for them while they lived in the garden of Eden? (Perfect/Innocence, did not experience sorrow or death)

? What was life like for them when they were cast out of the garden? (They had to work for things, death, and sorrow)

* We are all like Adam and Eve, we too face trials. We knew that when we chose to come to this earth to receive a body we knew that we were going to have to face adversity. We all experience trials in one way or another.

? Why must we experience adversity?

*Read quote from Elder Richard G. Scott (first one located in Manual)

CHALKBOARD

 * One of those sources we can avoid adversity from is by not breaking the commandments.

?What kinds of adversity can we  choose to avoid? (Anything brought on by our own bad/poor choices)

? What kinds of adversity might come to use regardless of our choices? ( Disease, injuries, financial loss, weather, etc..)

* We can't choose to avoid these kind of trails, but we can determine how we will react to them. One way of doing this is by thinking that these trials can help us grow and become a blessing to us. 

* Read 2 NEPHI 2:1, 22-23

-Remind the class that this is where Jacob experienced trials because of his brothers. His father Lehi explains  why.

? Why must we know misery in order to know joy?

* Read quote #2 from Elder Scott (second one listed in the manual)

* Cross word activity (can be found at the end of the lesson in the manual)

* Go over answers

* Popcorn Handout  and Testimony

Handout for Lesson 6

Here is lesson 6's handout. I am going to attach this story to a bag of microwave popcorn to remind them that we all go through adversity but it is how we choose to handle it that will determine where we will end up in the bowl. 

Click HERE to download (4 to a page)

Part of Lesson 6

Here is the video that I am going to be using in my lesson. I just love the message and Stephanie is such a strong inspiration on how to handle adversity and rise up from it.