May 11-17, Come Follow Me, Youth lesson helps
- redwallace
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Hello Friends! Here are the free prints and ideas this week. You can read about them and print them in the lesson plan below.
Here is the purchasable lesson. Just click the image to go to Etsy. You can also read about it in the lesson plan below.
This gift tag is already included in the lesson bundle, but you can purchase it separately by clicking on the image below.
“Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart.”
The law of Moses included many outward ceremonies and rituals. As you’ll see in Moses’s counsel in Deuteronomy, the Lord was also concerned about His people’s inward state—the spiritual condition of their hearts.
In the passages below, look for the word heart, and ponder what it might symbolize. You might think of these passages as a kind of spiritual checkup on your heart. What diagnosis would you give yourself? What treatments would you prescribe to improve the spiritual health of your heart? Write down your impressions:
One way to organize your thoughts could be to draw a heart and write inside it things that the Lord says you should have in your heart. Then you could write outside it things that you should keep out of your heart.
How do you show that you love God with all your heart? For ideas, see “Love God, love your neighbor” in For the Strength of Youth: A Guide for Making Choices, 10–12.
See also M. Russell Ballard, “Lovest Thou Me More Than These?,” Liahona, Nov. 2021, 51–53.
Before the game, pass this sheet out to the youth in your class. Tell them to keep track of what they want to put in their hearts and what to keep out. The broken hearts (in the game) are a big hint of what they should keep out.
There is also an example of a free lesson and one more free print at the bottom of the page.
I would give my youth an extra treat if they can complete this and play the game at the same time(;
This is a free print.
This game is Connect 4, but you can ALSO block the other team with a broken heart card.
Start out with your board like this:
Just like the normal Connect 4 game is limited in how many spaces you have, to force people to compete. I tried a couple of games playing it by myself(: and 40 spaces seemed about right. 8X5
The youth will be divided into two teams.
The team will pick out of their team's bags. They will look something like this:
They will go along picking their cards, reading scriptures, and placing them on the graph.
Say, for example, your graph looks like this when the yellow team picks out a broken heart.
It would be very beneficial to use the broken heart at the top of the blue team 3-in-a-row to prevent them from getting 4 in a row, because the bottom of the train has nowhere to go; it's already at the bottom of the graph.
Making the blue team, to try to connect 4 in a different way.
The teams might want to count their broken hearts in their Connect 4 train, but they can't. They have to actually have 4 in a row of the same color. So it could come in to hurt them later. You will see that sometimes drawing a broken heart can be a disadvantage for a team. Too bad for them. There is a lesson in this, but it's explained at the end.
They don't have to wait for a broken heart to block the opposite team; it's still the same game, just an added hiccup.
I do have the card pages in order, so you aren't putting all the cards in the bag at once.
You will notice there are some duplicates like this:
They are reviewing the same scripture, but they are focusing on different things in it. I wish I could ask 10 questions to every verse, and show all the angles, but I will limit myself to this(:
This will obviously take longer than an average Connect 4 game, because they will be reading scriptures and answering questions as they go.
If a team gets a Connect 4 early in the game, carry on and challenge them to see how many they can get until you've covered all the material you would like.
For those of you who print in Black and White.
I recommend printing each team on its own colored cardstock, but if you can't do that, I made the heart look a little different for you.
Covering the strength of the youth and the conference talk suggested in the materials. Your board may look similar to this when you are done.
Life lesson of the broken hearts:
“You probably noticed that broken hearts didn’t help you win. In fact, sometimes they actually made it harder for you to get four in a row.”
“That’s kind of how our hearts work spiritually.”
“In life, we might let in things like pride, selfishness, distraction, or choosing other things over God. At first, they don’t always seem like a big deal—sometimes they even feel like an advantage or something fun. But over time, they don’t actually help us become who God wants us to be. They don’t help us ‘connect’ with Him.” (: See how I did that.
I also think this GC talk relates very well to this lesson. I tried to shorten it, but it's one of my favorite talks, and I can't cut any more of that goodness out (: So you decide which short segment you want to show your class.
Free Lesson:
Draw a big heart on the chalkboard, and work through the scriptures to see how to sort them.
You can write down what your youth says or summarize.