That is where it is at.
Look at the glow these young women have...
They are beautiful
and pure
inside and out.
...and it shows
Apr 26, 2012
For Such a Time As This
We were born at this time because we're supposed to
be here NOW! We were all foreordained to a specific mission or missions here on this earth. It is our responsibility to find out what that is and try our best to fulfill it.
We are all " Esther-like". What is our time? How can we seize our opportunities for strength and greatness?
There is only one way: to depend on the Lord and trust Him. He will lead us and guide us through our lives.
He will write a story for our lives, better than anything we could even come close to on our own. As we do this, our lives will continually surprise us as we realize over and over again that we are capable of being and doing so much more than we ever realized.
Choosing Missions
"From every man, young and old, who bears the priesthood, I ask for a stronger and more devoted voice … a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God."-Elder Holland
A young woman I know recently started being interested in a young man who has not left on a mission yet. He is handsome and looks the part, is 19, but is not interested in serving a mission at this time.
He is "waiting" to see if that is what he wants to do. We definitely don't want missionaries out in the field who are not worthy to be there. But I am hearing this a lot from the young men. They are waiting to see if that is "what they want to do." Thankfully, they usually end up going. But their whole attitude concerns me.
I don't have any sons, so obviously I haven't dealt with this first hand. But I do have brothers, nephews, friends, and neighbors, and have been a missionary myself. That is a head-scratcher to me. I don't get the lack of commitment and the "I don't have to do anything I don't want to do" attitude.
We need to be preparing these young men with the expectations that this is what they have been commanded to do by a prophet of God.
Youth need to be exposed to spiritual experiences, where they can feel the spirit and strengthen their faith and testimony on a regular basis. That desire to go is not going to just happen on it's own. They need exposure to the Spirit.
I don't mean to be harsh, but I also don't understand the mothers who are almost afraid to bring up the subject with their sons. They want it to be their son's decision. They stand back and wait to see if their sons decide to go or not. In my opinion, I think a more pro-active, high expectation approach needs to be taken. We need young men serving missions and preparing for this long before the time comes and parents who expect them to do so.
We had a general authority speak to us at one of our Regional conferences
and he mentioned the fact that a mission experience is irreplaceable in so many
ways. He said, " It would take a person 40 years outside the mission to learn
what a missionary learns in 2 years on his mission."
40 years!
A mission is an irreplacable experience that
can't be duplicated.
We need young men choosing
missions.
Christ the Real Gift of Christmas
"The gift of Christmas isn't wrapped up in presents or
parties. The gift of Christmas is Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten of the Father,
the Son of God. As you follow Him, you put people first. You may spend less time
in lines and more time serving others. You may spend less money on - and more
time with - the people you love. You may lose yourself and you may find
everything else that matters."
(Christ: The Real Gift of Christmas Go check out this website from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints)
"The gift of Christmas isn't wrapped up in presents or parties. The gift of Christmas is Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten of the Father, the Son of God. As you follow Him, you put people first. You may spend less time in lines and more time serving others. You may spend less money on - and more time with - the people you love. You may lose yourself and you may find everything else that matters."
(Christ: The Real Gift of Christmas Go check out this website from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
Toilet Paper Roll Pillow Boxes
These were a big hit as a Christmas gift for our Laurels. I added some special wrapped chocolate inside each box.
This is a craft using none other than TOILET
PAPER ROLLS.
I am not kidding. They are so cute and
so....affordable. Start saving your rolls!!
You can use scrap-book paper to dress it up or
leave it with-out
Although these look
a little wider than toilet paper rolls....
the idea is still there of what you can do to
make it look cute
I am thinking....this might be a cute something
for my Laurels for Christmas. I am not sure what to put in it...maybe some
candy, or a picture, or a quote...etc.
Here is my attempt at it:
To make these all you
need is:
toilet paper roll
paper cut to 10 1/2 X 14 cm
any accessories
These were a big hit as a Christmas gift for our Laurels. I added some special wrapped chocolate inside each box.
This is a craft using none other than TOILET
PAPER ROLLS.
I am not kidding. They are so cute and so....affordable. Start saving your rolls!!
I am not kidding. They are so cute and so....affordable. Start saving your rolls!!
You can use scrap-book paper to dress it up or
leave it with-out
Although these look
a little wider than toilet paper rolls....
the idea is still there of what you can do to
make it look cute
I am thinking....this might be a cute something
for my Laurels for Christmas. I am not sure what to put in it...maybe some
candy, or a picture, or a quote...etc.
Here is my attempt at it:
To make these all you need is:
toilet paper roll
paper cut to 10 1/2 X 14 cm
any accessories
Feasting Upon the Scriptures
If you think about feasting, you probably have visions of a great Thanksgiving-type meal with everything you love to eat before you. You don't just take a nibbling of food and be done. NO-you feast!
Most of us probably eat too much at these holiday meals. We fill up on turkey, stuffing, potatoes, gravy, salads, veggie trays ,sweet potatoes, rolls etc. As we are feasting, we are having this wonderful experience with the food on our plate. It tastes so good! Our taste-buds are dancing with delight. There is a part of us that doesn't want it to end. We'll ask Aunt Helen "how did you make these delicious rolls? They are so soft and buttery!" We go on and on fully engaged and partaking of this feast before us.
After a while, we then fill up on the fatness mentioned in the scripture above. And oh how we love that part of the holidays! We love the pies and desserts.
This is feasting. This feels good to the soul to be able to indulge like this physically every so often.
After we physically feast on food, our stomachs eventually empty, and we want it all over again. Although the meal is momentarily satisfying, it is not eternally lasting.
The Lord says, "...come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which perisheth not"
We are reminded that a true feast, is a spiritual one.
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the abread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never bthirst.
Interesting that the Lord uses the word FEAST when talking about reading and studying the scriptures. He could have said read, glance over,flip through, skim, apprehend, or learn. Instead he used the word FEAST, which conjures up all kinds of emotions, visuals, and meaning inside us. Being mortal, we love to eat.
As we were discussing this verse in Sunday School, it really made me ponder..
Where is my scripture reading at?
Do I feast?
Do I feast?
Faith as an Anchor
In Ether 12:4 we read: “Wherefore, whoso believeth in
God might with surety hope for
a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of
God, which hope cometh of faith,
maketh an anchor to the
souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast,
always abounding in good works, being led to glorify
God.”
In Ether 12:4 we read: “Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for
a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith,
maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast,
always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God.”
Packets of Light Activity
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For our activity we used this super cute idea for value crayons from Kristen at Inkablinka.com: Value Crayons
We then made a list to be glued in the inside of their Book of Mormon. This is a list taken from Elder Scott's talk and converted to be qualities of a best friend-how the scriptures can be their best friend. {Click here} to download the glue-in list or create your own.
I then spent some time looking up a couple of scriptures under each of those categories that they could mark in their scriptures. {Click here} for that list or create your own. My girls complained that the scriptures were not in chronological order on the page. So that is my disclaimer! I was in a hurry when I did it.
I just really really loved this activity. It had such a great purpose. I recommend it!
Packets of Light: YW Lesson
Standing as Witnesses
What
does it look like to stand as witnesses?
It
looks like this ... a group of
young women pausing to offer a prayer before running in a High School
Cross-country race, not worrying what it may look like, or what others might
think. Instead, they turn to the Lord to recieve the strength and faith to run
their best race, knowing in whom they trust, that He will be with them in this
race just as He is in their individual lives.
and this...
and this...
Our High
School Homecoming dance fell on the same weekend as General
Conference.What- to- do?
Should the young men just "skip" the priesthood session of conference for the homecoming date???
Not with this group of youth!
They just simplified their date.
The Young Women insisted that their dates attend the priesthood session of conference first. They arranged for them to go to the stake center closest to our house. All the girls in the group got ready at one house so after priesthood session, the young men could pick up everyone at the same place and save time.
While the young men were being instructed my prophets and apostles, the young women were getting all beautiful for the dance.
and it looks like this...
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After last General Conference when Elder Bednar gave {this talk} about the youth doing family history, this 17 year old decided to try it out. She not only tried it out, but has fallen in love with it.
Since October conference, (6 months ago), she has researched, and found hundreds and hundreds of her ancestor's family names. She has prepared all of the names to recieve their temple ordinance. She has had the joy of going to the temple and participating in baptisms for the dead. She has also coordinated and arranged for the other temple ordinances to be done by family members as well as members of her ward.
She loves to work in the Family History library and says she feels strengthened by her ancestors. She knows they are with her encouraging her to keep going.
This, is
what it means and looks like
to stand
as witnesses!
Missionary Service Activity
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I love a
great Sister Missionary! They are spiritually powerful and so
awesome!
For our Laurel Activity this week we chose to do a Missionary Service Activity
It was basically a night to write the missionaries...spiced up a bit!
If you have ever sat down with Young Women and said, "We are going to write the missionaries" ...they are eager to do it....if they knew what to say...or what to write! That part of the activity can take 20 minutes if you stretch it! The letters are short and that is with them talking the whole time. : )
So before writing...we did some role-playing to see what it is like to be a Sister Missionary.
This of coarse is a very shortened, zip-through, but they get a small
idea.To prepare go to {lds.org/Menu/Service/Missionary Service} There on the left side bar is a list of links. Click on Dress & Grooming. It is full of pictures and information on how to dress, how to do your hair, and even how to put on make-up. It is excellent!!
I wish they had that information when I went on my mission!
This is
an excellent issue FULL of how to prepare yourself to serve a full-time
mission. You can use all kinds of ideas while preparing for this
activity.
The brain-child for
this activity idea came from {A Little
Tipsy} She inspired me with all of her cute ideas. Go see what she did!
I used several of her ideas and added my own.
Station 1: Preparing to Serve a
Mission:
I typed up a sheet of random
questions for the YW to answer. They were cut into strips and placed in a
bowl. Each YW read one. The questions came out of my reading the lds.org
missionary site, and the New Era magazine above. Here is a
sampling:
- Can Sister Missionaries wear jewelry?
- What materials do missionaries use to teach the gospel?
- How can you prepare spiritually to serve a mission?
- What kind of dresses do Sister Missionaries wear?
After discussing
and answering those question, each YW has to search and look up a scripture on
missionary service & explain how that verse inspires or helps prepare a
missionary to serve.
I was so impressed with what they found on their own. These are Laurels and are students of Seminary and they know the scriptures pretty well.
Station 2: Receiving the Call
It would have been really cool to have given the YW a pretend-real missionary call and a pretend tag...but I found this out:
I was so impressed with what they found on their own. These are Laurels and are students of Seminary and they know the scriptures pretty well.
Station 2: Receiving the Call
It would have been really cool to have given the YW a pretend-real missionary call and a pretend tag...but I found this out:
". Recently Church members have been counseled to not have children pretend to receive callings as full-time missionaries or wear pretend missionary name tags {Sharing Time, Let Your Light Shine, The Friend, October 1999}
I assume the
reason behind that is that the missionary calls and tags that have
the Church name on them are sacred. The text on the tags is copyrighted. They
also symbolize someone who has been proved themselves worthy to represent Jesus
Christ for 18 months or 2 years. The missionary call is signed by the prophet
himself. In the scriptures it tells us to not trifle with sacred
things.
So I gave the YW a letter (all the same) that essentially said "You are going on a mission!" I then let the YW choose where they wanted to go. With a small sticker, they placed their sticker on a map.
We had a basket of scarves and jackets for them to put on to "dress like a Sister Missionary"
Station 3: MTC Receiving a Companion:
With 2 of each number, they drew a number out of a bowl, then had to find the other person with that same number. That was their companion.
Station 4: Learning a Language:
As companions, they were given a list of sentences or phrases to learn to say in another language.
So I gave the YW a letter (all the same) that essentially said "You are going on a mission!" I then let the YW choose where they wanted to go. With a small sticker, they placed their sticker on a map.
We had a basket of scarves and jackets for them to put on to "dress like a Sister Missionary"
Station 3: MTC Receiving a Companion:
With 2 of each number, they drew a number out of a bowl, then had to find the other person with that same number. That was their companion.
Station 4: Learning a Language:
As companions, they were given a list of sentences or phrases to learn to say in another language.
- I know that God lives
- The Book of Mormon is the word of God
- Good Morning
- Thank-you very much
- Is your Mother home?
Station 5: Teaching a
Discussion:
As companions they had to each other a gospel principle.
Station 6: Flying to their Mission:
With an X on the floor with duct tape, the YW had to make a paper air-plane. They then flew their airplane trying to hit the X on the floor.
Writing the missionaries
We then took a few minutes to write a letter to one of the missionaries in our ward.
As companions they had to each other a gospel principle.
Station 6: Flying to their Mission:
With an X on the floor with duct tape, the YW had to make a paper air-plane. They then flew their airplane trying to hit the X on the floor.
Writing the missionaries
We then took a few minutes to write a letter to one of the missionaries in our ward.
We Can Clearly See Between Right and Wrong: YW in Excellence
To end our year of The 13th Article of Faith we chose a black and white theme to go perfectly with the theme:
We Can
Clearly See Between Right and Wrong
We called one of our YW advisors to be a program specialist, helping us out with planning New Beginnings and YW in Excellence. She is an amazing decorator, as you can tell!
Food
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zebra cakes
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white chocolate dipped oreos
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chocolate cupcakes with white frosting
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white/ black gum balls {they were left-over from a wedding}
Dress-code
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Sunday best for everyone. Leaders in all black and white to emphasize the theme
This was our table{before anyone showed up} for
the YW to display what they had accompished over the year in Personal
Progress
Handouts
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Sunglasses
Our
program outline
Skit: Shades of Grey- performed by the young women --this was originally a camp skit. We thought it would be cute for an opening in our New Beginnings.
It is hard to clearly see between right and wrong sometimes. In Isaiah 5:20 it says:
20 ¶Woe unto them that call aevil bgood, and good evil; that put cdarkness for dlight, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!I love this skit and how it demonstrates what is going on in our world today. It talked about things that are white, those that are black, and those areas that are grey.
Sometimes that is called "the gray area" [Define what is the grey area] It is that area where nothing is completely wrong and nothing is completely right. [Refer to Lehi's Dream and the mists of darkness] Satan wants us to believe that many of our commandments and gospel standards are grey area---and we can each choose how we want to follow and how we want to obey those.
How blessed we are to have the gospel, righteous parents, good friends, prayer, the Holy Ghost, scriptures, personal revelation, and living apostles and prophets to lead the way.
With the Lord there are no grey areas. We are for Him, or we are not. He asks us to serve him with all our hearts, might and minds.
"Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him. We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline." [Joseph B. Wirthlin, "Spiritual Bonfires of Testimony" Ensign 1992, 34]The 13th Article of Faith makes it clear what we believe and is a reminder that the Lord's standards are clear and that there is no gray area to Him.
13 aWe believe in being bhonest, true, cchaste, dbenevolent, virtuous, and in doing egood to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we fhope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to gendure all things. If there is anything hvirtuous, ilovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.Seek means to search or discover and is an active word. We do not sit and wait for some-thin good to happen. We are actively choosing the right.
I love this quote:
"Place me behind prison walls-walls of stone ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground--there is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape, but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle. No, never! I'd die first" [Karl G. Maeser]What are our convictions like?
In our Personal Progress book under the value of Choice and Accountability we are reminded of the scripture, Joshua 24:15
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve, but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord."Making choices is part of our Heavenly Father's plan for us. Agency or the ability to make our own choices is one of God's greatest gifts to His children. HOW we use our agency will determine the outcome of our lives. With each choice is a consequence that cannot be separated from it.
Value Experience #1 teaches that a daughter of God can make wise decisions and solve problems. It points the YW to establishing a pattern of regular scripture study and prayer to aid them in receiving the help they need to make personal decisions.
See {Gospel Outcomes}
The Holy Ghost will help each YW to make correct choices as she strives for and lives worthy of it constant companionship.
Close with the young women singing We Believe by Jenny Phillips
Thanks to Jennyphillips.com for all of her inspiration and ideas.
The Black and White theme idea came from
her.
Finding Joy in our Divine Potential
Young Women Lesson
5, Manuel 1
The Lesson Manuel suggests this:
Invite an exemplary sister to speak to the
young women about the joy of being a woman.
Introduce the special speaker and explain
that today the young women will be learning of their divine potential and the
joy that comes from being a daughter of God. Tell them that they may ask
questions and make comments after the speaker finishes [Lesson 5, Manuel 1]
In trying to come
up with that "perfect speaker, or exemplary woman" I felt there was no one
better than Margaret D. Nadauld
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For this lesson, I used her talk,
The Joy of Womanhood, Ensign October
2000.
This is another talk easily and
beautifully transferred over to young women. Every place where you see "woman"
or "womanhood" replace it with "young woman" or "young womanhood" It is another
perfect fit. {see
Young Women Who Know }
Let the Young Women listen and
watch this talk, then go over the important principles afterward, emphasizing
and inserting young women where ever there is woman. They will hear it twice,
and it will sink in as you teach it.
Start of
with your own testimony of being a daughter of God
We live
in a wonderful time and there is a purpose and mission for each of our
lives
The Lord has high expectations
for each of us
The Family: A Proclamation to the
World
"Our outward appearance is
a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for
which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and
to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother. But He
is more than that. He is our precious Savior, our dear Redeemer. We ask with
Alma of old, “Have ye received his image in your countenances?” (Alma 5:14)."
"You can recognize
[young]women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward
appearance. These [young]women
understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity. They
care for their bodies as they would a holy temple, for they understand the
Lord’s teaching: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Cor. 3:16).
Women who love God would never abuse or deface a temple with graffiti. Nor would
they throw open the doors of that holy, dedicated edifice and invite the world
to look on. How even more sacred is the body, for it was not made by man. It was
formed by God. We are the stewards, the keepers of the cleanliness and purity
with which it came from heaven. “If any man defile the temple of God, him shall
God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are” (1 Cor. 3:17).
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully,
for they know they are the wellspring of life and they reverence life. They
don’t uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to
be in favor with their Father in Heaven. For they know He loves them
dearly."
"You can recognize [young]women
who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their
attitude. They know that
the errand of angels is given to women, and they desire to be on God’s errand to
love His children and minister to them, to teach them the doctrines of
salvation, to call them to repentance, to save them in perilous circumstances,
to guide them in the performance of His work, to deliver His messages.3
They understand that they can bless their Father’s children in their homes and
neighborhoods and beyond. Women who are
grateful to be daughters of God bring glory to His name."
You can recognize
[young]women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their
abilities. They fulfill their divine potential and
magnify their God-given gifts. They are capable, strong
[young]women who bless families, serve others, and understand
that “the glory of God is intelligence” (D&C 93:36). They are [young]women who embrace
enduring virtues in order to be all that our Father needs them to be. The
prophet Jacob spoke of some of those virtues when he said their “feelings are
exceedingly tender and chaste and delicate before God, which thing is pleasing
unto God” (Jacob 2:7).
"You can recognize [young]women
who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their reverence for
motherhood. In those
circumstances, their righteous influence can be a blessing in the lives of
children they love. Their exemplary teachings can echo the voice of a faithful
home and resonate truth in the hearts of children who need another
witness.
Grateful daughters of God love Him and teach their
children to love Him without reservation and without resentment. They are like
the mothers of Helaman’s youthful army, who had such great faith and “had been
taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them”
(Alma 56:47).
Copy this quote off and create a handout for your YW to take
home
"[Young]Women of God can never be like
women of the world. The world has enough [young]women who are tough; we need
[young]women who are tender. There are enough [young]women who are coarse; we
need [young]women who are kind. There are enough [young]women who are rude; we
need [young]women who are refined. We have enough [young]women of fame and
fortune; we need more [young]women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more
goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity;
we need more purity."
Always remember what President Hinckley
said,
“Only after the earth had been formed, after the day
had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the
land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been
placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced
complete and good.”5
Young women please
understand all that you are and must be, all that you were prepared to be in
royal courts on high by God Himself.
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Following "The Son"
This
weeks Young Women Lesson is
Following the Example of Jesus
Christ
We
decided to make this lesson one of our Joint YW lessons that we teach monthly.
In trying to decide how to best approach this lesson I felt to use the example
of the sunflower as a symbol of following "The SON-Jesus Christ" As the
sunflowers follow the sun as part of their creation.
Here's
my lesson:
I want to tell you today about Sunflowers. As a
young girl, my Dad would grow Sunflowers in
our garden. They are such
interesting plants as they start as a simple seed, but as they grow they seem to
have this great purpose about them.
One is to grow sunflower seeds, and the other is to “Follow the
Sun”
Did you know when a Sunflower is young it follows
the sun. In the morning it faces the
East, and by Sunset it is facing the West.
Everyday, it seeks the sunlight and faces towards it so that it can soak
up the most light. As the sunflower
matures it stays firm and steadfast in the direction where it receives the most
light. As it receives light it grow and
progresses becoming brighter and brighter and producing wonderful 'fruit'
called sunflower seeds. If plants don’t
receive light, they wither and die.
Discussion: Now how can we compare ourselves to a
sunflower?
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What light do we need to grow and progress? [The Savior is our light. We need to turn our faces towards Him. We need Him. Without His light in our lives everyday, we will suffer. We won’t grow and progress to become like Him. ]
Chalkboard & yw
participation:What are some of the
things we must do in order to be filled with this light of "the SON" --the Son
of God? Use these quotes
to hand out to the YW. See {Light and Growth, Lynn A. Mickelson, Sept. 2004
Ensign}
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We
must have faith in the Lord. The
prophet Alma compares the word of God to a seed and challenges us to begin with
a desire to believe; then, when the seed begins to sprout in our hearts, our
understanding will be enlightened and our faith will grow (see Alma 32:27–30). Faith
opens the windows of our hearts to the light of Christ and
chases darkness from us. As our faith increases, we grow toward the light, and
our capacity to receive that light is magnified (see D&C 50:24).
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| Prayer |
We
must pray.
The Lord’s instructions are explicit: we must ask, seek, and knock to receive
the promises He has made to us . Any
great outpouring of light has always been given in answer to prayer. The
Nephites experienced this when the Savior visited them: “And it came to pass
that Jesus blessed them as they did pray unto him; and his countenance did smile
upon them, and the light of his countenance did shine upon them, and behold they
were as white as the countenance and also the garments of Jesus; and behold the
whiteness thereof did exceed all the whiteness, yea, even there could be nothing
upon earth so white as the whiteness thereof” (3 Ne. 19:25).
Daily prayer keeps our eye single to His glory and facing toward the
light.
We
must repent of our sins.
Sin
limits light. As we follow the counsel of the Lord and repent of our sins, we
open the way for the infusion of light.
We
must keep covenants The
covenant of baptism by water is a prerequisite to receiving the light that
accompanies the gift of the Holy Ghost. Each week we may renew this sacred
covenant as we partake of the sacrament, thereby increasing our access to the
Savior’s light.
We
must look to our patriarchal blessings.
Our patriarchal blessings can be a significant source of light. We must seek the light that the Lord has
personally promised each of us and live up to the heritage to which we have been
called.
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| Follow the Prophet |
We
must follow the prophet.
As
we follow the prophet, we can enjoy blessings similar to that which the children
of Israel were given: “And the Lord went before them … to lead them the way; and
by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light” (Ex. 13:21).
The prophet reflects the light of the Lord, which can guide us as we travel
along our mortal journey.
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| Scriptures |
Read our scriptures: Scriptures
are like {packets
of light} that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and
inspiration from on high. They can become the key to open the channel to
communion with our Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. –Elder
Richard G. Scott,{The
Power of Scripture}
Discussion"
The Sunflower produces seeds that can be enjoyed by
all. What could the seeds represent in
our lives as we follow Jesus Christ? Write on
the chalk board
Have the
Young Women look up the following Scriptures:
2
Nephi 31:10 And
he said unto the children of men: aFollow
thou me.
Wherefore,
my beloved brethren, can we bfollow
Jesus save we shall be willing to keep the commandments of the
Father?
3
Nephi 27:27 And know ye
that aye shall be
bjudges of this
people, according to the judgment which I shall give unto you, which shall be
just. Therefore, what cmanner of men
ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even das I
am.
Moroni
7: 48 Wherefore,
my beloved brethren, apray
unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this
love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true bfollowers
of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall
appear we shall cbe like him, for we shall see him as he is;
that we may have this hope; that we may be dpurified
even as he is pure. Amen.
Group discussion: What can we do to follow
Christ’s example all week long?
What can we do to influence our friends, family, and
others to better follow the Savior’s
example?
example?
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| You are My
Hands (President Uchtodorf, May 2010 Ensign) |
"A story is told that during the bombing of a city in World War II, a large statue of Jesus Christ was severely damaged. When the townspeople found the statue among the rubble, they mourned because it had been a beloved symbol of their faith and of God’s presence in their lives.Experts were able to repair most of the statue, but its hands had been damaged so severely that they could not be restored. Some suggested that they hire a sculptor to make new hands, but others wanted to leave it as it was—a permanent reminder of the tragedy of war. Ultimately, the statue remained without hands. However, the people of the city added on the base of the statue of Jesus Christ a sign with these words: “You are my hands.”As we emulate His perfect example, our hands can become His hands; our eyes, His eyes; our heart, His heart.
May
we all become the Savior's hands, eyes, and heart as we follow Him I promise you
that as we expose our lives to greater light, we will continue to grow
spiritually, and the light within us will grow “brighter and brighter until the
perfect day” (D&C 50:24).
Bear
Testimony.
This
is the handout I used.
Learn from
the sunflower-
Follow the
light that the Savior provides.
Gain
strength from Him and His teachings.
Stand firm
in your convictions.
Share His
light with others.
Follow
‘The Son’
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