Oct 19-25, Come Follow Me, Free LDS primary lesson helps
Heavenly Father knew me before I was born.
To introduce the important truth taught in Jeremiah 1:5, you could show your children a picture of a baby (or, if possible, you could look at pictures of your children when they were babies). Ask your children if they know where they lived before they were born. You could also sing together a song that teaches about our premortal life, such as “I Lived in Heaven” (Children’s Songbook, 4).
If your children would like to learn more, you could help them find “Premortal Life” in the Guide to the Scriptures. They could look for answers to “who,” “when,” and “what” questions about the premortal life.
Here is a coloring/activity book to help teach these principles.
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Prophets are called to speak the words of the Lord.
Consider showing pictures of the living prophet or prophets from the scriptures (you can find some in Church magazines, the Gospel Art Book, and Come, Follow Me). Ask your children what they know about these prophets.
To teach about what prophets do, you might select some helpful verses from Jeremiah 1, such as verses 5, 7, 10, and 19. Your children could each pick one of the verses, read it, and share something they learn about prophets.
Before class you need to make sure you cut out the picture of the prophet and put it over the top of the picture of Jesus. While teaching, have the children put the pictures around the picture, of the prophet. Talk about what the prophet says about each of those pictures. After all the pictures are there, remove the picture of the prophet, to reveal the picture of Jesus. Ask them if those things are important to Jesus Christ too, and it is things he wants us to know about? Bear your testimony that the Prophet speaks for the Lord.
For older children they can write and draw the things they have heard the prophet talk about and put it on the page.
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Additional ideas:
Read to the children what the Lord said to another prophet, Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 1:7. Invite the children to walk in place when you read “go to all that I shall send thee” and to pretend to speak when you read “whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.” Share your testimony that prophets do and say what the Lord commands.
Show pictures of prophets from the scriptures (see the Gospel Art Book, Church magazines, and Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families). Let the children tell you what they know about these prophets. Briefly tell the children about something each one did to help with God’s work. Bear your testimony that prophets are called of God to speak His words and serve His people.
You can add beads or fruit loops to the necklaces, and talk about each of them as you string them.
I can help Heavenly Father’s children come back to Him.
While you read Jeremiah 16:16, your children could pretend to “fish” or “hunt” for objects around the room. President Russell M. Nelson has compared the fishers and hunters in this verse to missionaries (see “The Gathering of Scattered Israel,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2006, 81). What do missionaries do? How can we help “fish” and “hunt” for scattered Israel? (see “A Message for Children from President Russell M. Nelson” [video], ChurchofJesusChrist.org).
It would be so fun to make a little fishing pole, with a magnet and paper clips, after they catch a fish with the picture on it, you can talk about it together.
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For older students:
I can let the Lord guide my life, like a potter shapes clay.
To explore these verses, you might discuss or show how pottery is made (see the picture at the end of this outline). What message does the Lord have for us in Jeremiah 18:1–6? What does it mean to be clay in the Lord’s hands? (see also Isaiah 64:8). For another story that compares us to potter’s clay, see Elder Richard J. Maynes’s message “The Joy of Living a Christ-Centered Life” (Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2015, 27–30).
Pass out play dough for the children to play with while you teach this.
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