December 1-7, Come Follow me, Free, Primary lesson helps
- redwallace
- 5 days ago
- 3 min read
Updated: 1 hour ago
Ideas for Teaching Children
All Heavenly Father’s children will have the chance to hear the gospel.
To learn about what it would have meant for Joseph Smith to see several of his family members in the celestial kingdom, your children could watch the video “Ministry of Joseph Smith: Temples” (Gospel Library), or you could share Doctrine and Covenants Stories, 152–53 (or the corresponding video in Gospel Library). Perhaps you could also talk about someone you know who died without the chance to be baptized. What does Doctrine and Covenants 137:5–10 teach us about that person?
-Fold and cut out like you would normal paper dolls. Tell the story about Alvins 'death and cut him out of the paper dolls. Then, with excitement, explain how we can do work in the temple for our family members who have died without the gospel. Tape Alvin back into the family chain and bear testimony that the Atonement makes this sealing power possible.
Put the 5 pictures on the walls around the classroom. Put missionary tags on the students and tell them to listen to the place they are being called to serve. Read the riddles and have them go stand by the place they think it matches. After asking this question: Why do you think the Spirit World needs missionaries? Read the scriptures that go with this lesson to help them understand what happens after we die.
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Consider using a picture of the Savior’s tomb (see Gospel Art Book, no. 58, or Bible Photographs, no. 14) and the picture at the end of this outline to teach your children where Jesus’s spirit went when His body was in the tomb. Then you could read together Doctrine and Covenants 138:18–19, 23–24, 27–30 to learn about what Jesus did while He was there. Who did He visit? What did He ask them to do? Why did He do this?
Attach with a brad to make this more interactive.
I recommend church approved art, but you are also welcome to these.
You could also use this week’s activity page to help your children compare what missionaries teach on this side of the veil (see, for example, Articles of Faith 1:4) with what missionaries teach in the spirit world (see Doctrine and Covenants 138:33). What is similar in these verses, and what is different? What does this teach us about Heavenly Father and His plan?
When I ponder the scriptures, the Holy Ghost can help me understand them.
As you and your children read Doctrine and Covenants 138:1–11 together, you could invite them to pretend they are President Joseph F. Smith and do actions that go along with the words in verses 6 and 11. You might also show them a picture of President Smith (there’s one in this outline) and explain that he was the sixth President of the Church. You could also talk about a time when you pondered something in the scriptures and the Holy Ghost helped you understand it.
I thought it would be fun for each child to hold a Bible and wear the Joseph F. Smith mask while they repeat after you, reading D&C 138:6, 11.
Consider singing together a song about scripture study, such as “Search, Ponder, and Pray” (Children’s Songbook, 109). What does this song say we should do to understand the scriptures?
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