YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. RIGHTEOUS TRADITIONS Time Capsule. Youth can create this message to read in the future when they are married, to be buried where they will find it and review their goals in the future. They can even open it every year to see how they are doing on their goals creating these RIGHTEOUS TRADITIONS.
GREAT FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH – Come Follow Me Lessons for: Primary, family home evening, Sunday School, Seminary, Bible Study
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Righteous Traditions – Time Capsule
Create a time capsule to record righteous traditions. Write righteous traditions on the planner form (see ideas below). Write the date you will seal the capsule and the date five years from then (when you will open it). Option: Have youth open their time capsule every year to see how they are doing. Place the list in the time capsule and set it on your shelf, writing the date in your calendar each year to review.
Righteous Traditions: Attend Church as a family each week, obtain a father’s blessing before beginning a new school year, visit the sick and elderly often, do dishes together each night, act out the nativity on Christmas Eve, have flag-raising ceremony on patriotic holidays, help the needy, write family and personal history together, do missionary projects together, focus on and try to live a different scripture together each month, prepare special Sunday meals on Saturday, plant and harvest a garden together, plan a family reunion together, ride bikes to the park together for a picnic, and scripture reading. Have daily family prayer and weekly family home evening, fast together with a special need in mind each fast Sunday, study the scriptures, Church magazines, and books,
5. Fold or roll up the Time Capsule list and place it into the Time Capsule jar or container.
TO MAKE Print activity in color or black and white. Place label on a jar.
MORE IDEAS ON TIME CAPSULES:
• Time Capsule, By Ruth Iman, Liahona Magazine, March 1993 listing items that might go into a time capsule, e.g., “Your favorite scripture or scripture story and why it is important to you.” “List of personal or family goals.” … (listing 12 more items)
She also said, “Remember that all the things put into the time capsule will be sealed up until the time your family decides the box should be opened. You might want to do this activity once every year, opening last year’s box, then filling a new box.” CLICK HERE to read ⇒
MUTUAL NIGHT, Family Night, Sunday School, Seminary ACTIVITIES
SHARE FAVORITE FAMILY TRADITIONS: Explain what a tradition is, e.g., a custom or practice. Have each youth write on a piece of paper one or more of her favorite family traditions. Have them share it with the class. Brainstorm as you make a long list. Have someone take notes and make a list for everyone. Ideas: Making handmade gifts, making care packages and taking to the sick, placing an upbeat note in a family member’s lunch box, getting new pajamas on Christmas Eve, creating a “rainy day box” by collecting small toys and objects for children to play with, playing games every Sunday night.
REVISE OLD TRADITIONS: Discuss how traditions have changed; some old ones have changed for the better, some have not. Read a book on etiquette with youth and ask them if they do these things in their home, e.g., not putting elbows on the table until after they have finished eating, serving family members food from the left instead of the right side, ringing the dinner bell when dinner is ready, putting a heart under the plate of the person who is to give the blessing on the food, lighting a candle when a special guest has come to dinner or when celebrating something well done.
SHOW VIDEO (below): Righteous Traditions, Cheryl C. Lant, Primary General President (click HERE to find article/video)
She said, “Each of us has traditions in our families. Some of them are material. Some of them have deep meaning. The most important traditions are connected with the way we live our lives and will last beyond us as our children’s lives are influenced and shaped. In the Book of Mormon, we read of the Lamanites who were deeply affected by the traditions of their fathers. King Benjamin said they were a people who knew nothing about the principles of the gospel “or even do not believe them when they are taught them, because of the traditions of their fathers, which are not correct” (Mosiah 1:5).”
SOURCE: YW2.18
THIS ACTIVITY CAN BE USED FOR Come Follow Me
• AUGUST Lesson 2 “Why is family important?”
• DECEMBER Lesson 3 “How can I prepare to establish a Christ-centered home?”
