Use For: CHURCH and HOME children and youth activities.
ACTIVITY DAYS Activity
Learning and Living the Gospel –
Goal 3
The Holy Ghost let the spirit guide games and scripture tools
(Part 1 of 2):
Ask the Holy Ghost to comfort me, guide me, and testify to me of truth.
(Part 2 of 2):
Discuss the way the holy ghost helps you and invites the spirit through prayer and living God’s commandments.
Theme: The Holy Ghost Can Guide Me
INVITATION
Invite Activity Days youth to this activity using invitation.
GOAL ACTIVITY INVITATION
The flashlight invitation reads
“We hope you’ll find your way to Activity Days”
Other Uses For This Same Invitation: Use for a “Flashlight Tag” an outdoor game activity. Or use it for a “Search For the Light in the Scriptures” scripture chase activity using flashlights.
PREPARATION FOR ACTIVITY:
• Print invitations, color them, and give them out a week ahead or have them ready to give to youth at current activity, inviting them to the next.
• Have more active youth take the invitation to those less active.
ASSIGN TREATS: See matching THOUGHT TREATS below each activity.
• Have youth share their favorite recipes with you and you could make them during the GOAL ACTIVITY or have them make them ahead to share.
. . . ACTIVITY DAYS PLANNER . . .
Learn and Living the Gospel Goal 3 (Part 1 of 2):
Ask the Holy Ghost to comfort me, guide me, and testify to me of truth.
Scripture Underlining Guide and Pencil Pocket
To Make: Print, color, and cut out the Scripture Underlining Guide and Pencil Pocket. Fold and glue Guide edges, leaving the top open to create a pocket. Enclosed is a red pencil in the pocket.
To Underline Scriptures: Use the Scripture Underlining Guide as a straight edge, placing it under the lines you wish to underline. Store the pencil in the pocket. Use a pencil to underline scriptures about the Holy Ghost, or to underline other scriptures that inspire you to heed His promptings.
Reasons for Studying the Scriptures:
• The Savior stated, “Search the scriptures; … they are they which testify of me.” (John 5:39.)
• Sing the song “Scripture Power” (from October 1987 Friend magazine) and then talk to youth about how they can get “power” from reading the scriptures and how reading them increases our faith as you read Jacob 4:6-7.
• We can weaken our faith and power by not reading the scriptures. Talk about how Jesus said, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God (Matthew 22:29).
THOUGHT TREAT: (“Free Mind of Clutter” Cookies). For each youth, frost a sugar cookie and top with “clutter” (dried fruit, chocolate chips, candies, and broken lifesavers). Next, frost a sugar cookie for each youth and decorate it with a simple frosting smiling face. Thought: As youth eat, remind them to keep their lives free from clutter (noisy music, too much television, and things that are not of value). This way we can make room in our minds and hearts so that the Holy Ghost can guide us. We can find happiness as we make eternal life decisions.
Learn & Living the Gospel Goal 3 (Part 2 of 2):
Discuss ways the Holy Ghost helps you and Let the Spirit Guide
(Flashlight—Tag & Block—Toss Game)
To Make: Print, color, and cut out the Let the Spirit Guide circles, situation cards, and block. Fold block, stuff with cotton, and glue tabs to hold. You’ll need three flashlights (one for the leader).
Play:
1. Divide players into two teams seated across from each other in a circle.
2. Place circles in the center and situation cards facedown. Have a player from each team be ready to shine their flashlight on the circle. Darken the room so you can see the flashlight’s beam on the circles. If the room is dark, have the leader use a flashlight to read the situation card.
3. Have teams take turns drawing a situation card and, without looking, hand it to the leader to read, e.g., “Abby was lost and didn’t know her way home.”
4. First, play Flashlight Tag and then Block Toss as follows:
• Flashlight Tag: The player representing each team identifies one of the three circles: Comforts, Guides, and Testifies of Truth by flashing their flashlight on the circle. The team player who identifies the correct answer earns a point for their team. You will need another leader or youth as the referee (who knows the answer) to see which team flashes their light on the circle first. If there is any question, toss a coin (heads get the point).
• Block Toss: The person who earns a point for their team can earn an extra point by tossing the block in the center. If it lands on the correct answer that was previously spotted, they earn an extra point for their team. Play until all the cards are read. The team with the most points wins!
THOUGHT TREAT: (STOP and GO Cookies or Crackers). Write the words STOP and GO on two different frosted cookies or Crackers using frosting or processed cheese from the can.
Thought: With each bite of the STOP cookies/crackers tell about a warning you have had or others have had (from the Holy Ghost) to stop doing something. With each bite of the GO cookies/crackers tell about a prompting from the Spirit to go and do something.
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LESSON LIFESAVER ACTIVITIES
Let the Spirit Guide
LET THE HOLY GHOST GUIDE game and scripture underlining. This can become a YOUTH GOAL to Invite the Spirit or create a special Activity Day to learn about this light with scripture underlining, flashlight tag, and block toss to learn the following. The Holy Ghost will help me throughout my life! (bookmark with room for a scripture underlining pencil and scriptures to underline). On the flip side: Testifies of Truth – Guides – Comforts. Then, the other matching activities coordinate the above concepts.
Inspiration
The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a personage of spirit, without a body of flesh and bones. He is often referred to as the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the Lord, or the Comforter. – Holy Ghost Overview
“We can, if we live worthy of it, have the blessing of the Spirit to be with us, not only now and then but always.” – The Holy Ghost as Your Companion, By President Henry B. Eyring First Counselor in the First Presidency, Oct. 2015 general conference
