YOUTH GOALS & LESSON LIFESAVER ACTIVITY
With this Heavenly Phone Call crossmatch youth can learn how a simple heavenly phone call can help us in many different ways.
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SPIRITUAL
Youth GOAL
Communication with Heavenly Father
Learn ways I can be helped by making simple prayer-calls each day.
Goal Ideas
With this Heavenly Phone Call crossmatch youth can learn that prayer can help us in these ways: testimony, attitude, fasting, peer pressure, Church standards, school, self-image, Word or Wisdom, habits, weaknesses.
Inspiration
“Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Actually, because He knows how desperately we need His guidance, He commands, “Thou shalt pray vocally as well as in thy heart; yea, before the world as well as in secret, in public as well as in private. It matters not our circumstance, be we humble or arrogant, poor or rich, free or enslaved, learned or ignorant, loved or forsaken, we can address Him. We need no appointment.” (MORE BELOW) –Using the Supernal Gift of Prayer, Richard G. Scott Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Heavenly Phone Call crossmatch
OBJECTIVE: Tell the youth that “a simple spiritual—phone call (through prayer) can be made each day to Heavenly Father.”
ACTIVITY: Use Heavenly Phone Call crossmatch activity to learn how prayer will help. Draw a line from the column on the left to matching words in the column on the right.
Answers to Prayers Help us:
• Build a testimony,
• Overcome negative attitudes,
• Observe a meaningful fast,
• Withstand peer pressures,
• Maintain Church standards,
• Solve school problems,
• Improve one’s self-image,
• Keep the Word of Wisdom,
• Develop good habits, and
• Overcome weaknesses.
TO MAKE Print activity in color or black and white.
THOUGHT TREAT: Prayer Memory Mints. Give each youth a bag of mints with this reminder note: Heavenly Father “mint” for us to pray to Him each day.
GROUP ACTIVITIES
For Church or Family
A SPECIAL PLACE: Find a special place away from crowds. Have youth listen for several minutes without speaking, then discuss the silence. Ask, “When was the last time you did something like this?” Talk about distractions (e.g., TV, radio, cars, people, children, etc.). Express the importance of meditation and prayer. Ask if Joseph Smith could have received his first vision in his home, a house full of people coming and going, instead of in the Sacred Grove. Express the importance of meditating, and listening to the Spirit for inspiration and answers.
“CHEW”s SOMETHING TO PRAY ABOUT:
1. Have youth sit in a circle in front of a bowl of gumballs or sticks of gum (with at least three pieces of gum for each and a variety of gum—bubble gum, gumballs, sugar-free, etc.)
2. Ask youth to meditate a few moments on things they like to pray about; then write at least three things they like to pray about on three slips of paper and place these in the center in another bowl.
3. Ask youth to take turns drawing a wordstrip out of the bowl and reading what the other youth like to pray about. If someone chooses a wordstrip with an idea that she wrote, she hands the note to a leader to read and chooses a piece of gum. Several youths may have had the same idea and can also choose a piece of gum. If their idea comes up again, they can have another piece of gum. Keep going until all wordstrips are read.
More Inspiration
“Don’t worry about your clumsily expressed feelings. Just talk to your compassionate, understanding Father. You are His precious child whom He loves perfectly and wants to help. As you pray, recognize that Father in Heaven is near and He is listening.
A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seek what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.
Should you ever feel distanced from our Father, it could be for many reasons. Whatever the cause, as you continue to plead for help, He will guide you to do that which will restore your confidence that He is near. Pray even when you have no desire to pray. Sometimes, like a child, you may misbehave and feel you cannot approach your Father with a problem. That is when you most need to pray. Never feel you are too unworthy to pray.” –Using the Supernal Gift of Prayer, Richard G. Scott Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
