YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. TESTIMONY SEEDS packet with clues. Youth can search these scriptures that provide ways to grow and share their testimony. The Prophet Alma baptized 200 in one day after testifying to have faith in Jesus Christ and His gospel.
Great for COME FOLLOW ME, Young Women, Primary lessons, Family Home Evening, Sunday School, Bible Study, and Seminary
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Testimony Seeds packet with clues interactive handout
Description: Testimony Seed Packet is a fun reminder that we can build our own testimonies. Seed packet has an interactive scripture search for youth to find ways to help their testimony grow.
TO MAKE Print activity in color or black and white. Color and cut out seed packet. Fold packet in half and glue back to back 1/4-inch on the sides and bottom only, leaving the top open. Fill a seed packet with a few seeds (flowers or vegetables) or a packet of seeds to be planted later. Note: The pattern has two colored versions of the seed packet as well as black and white version.
ACTIVITY: Make a packet of seeds for youth (see below to make). Read together the scriptures on the packet and have them write what is necessary to gain and nourish a testimony. Challenge youth to think, as they plant and nourish the seeds, how they can plant and nourish their testimony.
THOUGHT TREAT: Testimony Seeds. Fill the above handout seed packet full of sunflower seeds and have youth eat these (instead of filling the packet with real seeds). Talk about how our testimony grows as we plant seeds of faith by reading the scriptures daily.
MUTUAL NIGHT, SEMINARY, SUNDAY SCHOOL, FAMILY HOME EVENING ACTIVITIES
TESTIMONY TRAIL COWGIRL AND/OR COWBOY PARTY: (Fun Option: Invite young men to participate.)
1. Select several youth and leaders to create the trail by first drawing a map on paper to know where to place clues and how to get through the maze.
2. To set up trail place the tape on the floor leading different directions.
3. Tape clues that help you decide which direction to go at all turning points, e.g., “Turn left at Howdy Lane if you play poker.” “Turn right at Howdy Lane if you walked a little old lady across the street.”
4. Divide youth into two groups, or if young men are invited, girls can compete with boys.
5. Teams take turns. At “go,” time them to see who gets through the maze in the shortest amount of time.
6. For the next team, reset the clues at the turning points (marked on your map, see #1). Clues could be laced in straws, balloons, placed in envelopes, under a rock, inside a box, under a bucket, etc.
7. The team that makes it to Happy Valley wins!
TESTIMONY MATCH GAME: Give youth two wordstrips and ask them to write a part, or a phrase, of their testimony on one wordstrip. Then have them write it again on the second wordstrip. Have them divide into two teams and play concentration by turning over two wordstrips to make a match. When a match is made, post one of each pair of wordstrips on the board or a poster. Afterward, have youth take turns reading a testimony wordstrip and adding their own feelings to that testimony.
SHARING–TIME TESTIMONY MEETING: Have youth each present a short testimony to the Primary children during sharing time. They may create visuals or find visuals from the ward library that help them express their testimony. Their testimony might be on a gospel principle they feel strongly about, e.g., an Article of Faith, or the Word of Wisdom.
TESTIMONY TRACKER: Have youth create a special notebook they can take to church meetings or put by their bed to note testimony ideas or gospel principles they wish to live. Then through living the gospel they strengthen their testimony. They can record feelings here or in their personal journal or this book.
STAR TESTIMONY: Inside with star-shaped cut-outs around, or outside under the stars, show an appropriate church video that expresses what the Church is about (e.g., a video on the Savior or on Joseph Smith and the Restoration). Afterward, allow youth to write their feelings about the gospel. Then openly read and share these feelings with others, having a testimony meeting. Express your own testimony and love for them.
SOURCE YW1.26
THIS ACTIVITY CAN BE USED FOR Come Follow Me
• APRIL Lesson 4 “What was Joseph Smith’s role in the Restoration?”
• MAY Lesson 5 “How can I strengthen my testimony?”
• NOVEMBER Lesson 2 “How do I know if I am becoming converted?”
