Lesson 13



This weeks lesson is on Baptism and Taking the Name of Christ Upon Us. For this lesson I decided to make this into a game based on the topic of baptism. I found the idea HERE and just adapted it for my class.

HERE is the questions for the game

Here is a sample of a few of the questions (there is five categories)

Category 1: Baptism

100: If you are 12 and a worthy member of the church you can perform these at the temple          

 (Baptisms for the dead)

200: These two principles of the gospel precede the ordinance of baptism

  (Faith and Repentance, 4th A of F)

300: Baptism by immersion is symbolic of this, as described in the BD on pg. 618

    (death, burial and resurrection)

400: These are the three baptismal covenants we make to Heavenly Father as given in

 the sacrament prayers

 (D&C 20:77- take His name upon us, always remember Him, and keep His commandments)

 I will also be handing out a little handout that has lifesavers in a small bag with the image below stapled on it for a bag topper.

HERE is the link to the PDF for this treat bag topper (the above image)

I don't have the finished product up yet because I haven't put them all together but I hope to get a picture of it when I do!

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

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

As promised...

HERE is the lesson outline for lesson 4 The Atonement of Jesus Christ. This lesson outline follows the manuals suggestive teaching layout so it is pretty lengthy. However, as always, it is made to be customized to your particular situation or time restraints. This is also the lesson outline that I will be following. 

It is my intention to make sure that I leave enough time to make sure that the film clip of the Mediator is shown in its entirety as it is a lil over 10 minutes long and since it is in parable form I want to be able to discuss the meaning of it. So please, please make sure you make time for that. I think it is a great story and will help the kids understand the atonement and Jesus' role in it a little bit better. 

Outline for Lesson #3

As promised, here is the outline for lesson 3 on the Fall of Adam and Eve. You may find it to be a bit shorter than normal because this was my first week teaching and I had to be found a classroom and then we had to round up all the 12/13 year olds to attend the class as previously all the classes were joined or divided into two. This took a bit of time. Plus I took a few minutes to setup the rules of my class room, which was based mostly on the principle of resepct and no cell phones. Needless to say the kids took the rules well and our lesson was great all things considering.

Anyway, HERE is the outline that I used for my lesson. Like most lessons I adapted it to the needs of my class and to what the spirit was directing me to teach. Download is a word doc.