YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. PLAN OF SALVATION storyboard and quiz. Youth can learn they are spirit children of heavenly Father who sent us here to earth to learn how to be like Him so we can return*. Storyboard figures take us from Premortal life to Earth Life to Death, Spirit World, Resurrection, Final Judgement, and then to one of the kingdoms STAR, MOON, or SUN (*Celestial place where God lives).
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Sunday School, Seminary (Young Men & Young Women)
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Plan of Salvation storyboard and quiz
OBJECTIVE: To help the youth understand that they are spirit children of Heavenly Father and that He has a plan that helps them become like Him and return to live with Him again.
ACTIVITY: Plan of Salvation storyboard and quiz
Idea 1: Create a Plan of Salvation storyboard (detailed below). Place figures on the wall with tape as you discuss the questions on pages 2–3 in the manual* (see Answers below).
Idea 2: Premortal Life and Earth Life Quiz. Place quiz word strips (shown right) facedown. The youth can draw a quiz word-strip, e.g., “Live with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ” and place it on the storyboard under premortal life, earth life, or both.
Answers (word strips to place under the kingdoms):
• Live with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ (premortal life),
• Be with our family (earth life),
• Have the Bible and Book of Mormon to guide us (earth life),
• Have only a spirit body (premortal life),
• Have a physical body (earth life),
• Be taught Heavenly Father’s plan (both premortal and earth life),
• Experience hard work, sorrow, and death (earth life), and
• Be able to have children (earth life).
Encourage the youth to present the above Quiz to family and friends.
TO MAKE Print and cut out the storyboard and word-strips for each child.
THOUGHT TREAT: Celestial Smile Cookies.
• Add yellow food coloring to cookie dough before adding flour. Mix and roll into 2″ balls. Press flat. Clip edges 1/4″ inch with scissors, or cut into the dough with a knife to look like sun rays.
• Bake cookies.
• Frost the center of the cookie with yellow frosting (add 2–3 drops of yellow food coloring to vanilla frosting).
• Use candies to create a smiling face.
• Ask the youth to put on their celestial smile as they eat, imagining they are there living with Heavenly Father again.
SCRIPTURE CARDS: Help children Search and Ponder this scripture card by filling in the blanks. PRINT this 5 x 7 scripture card from the pdf included with the above activity. You can punch the two holes on the left and tie a ribbon to attach cards or use two metal rings to connect cards.
Abraham 3:25-26 “And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them; And they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.”
Youth may also like these activities to learn about the Plan of Salvation.
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For Second Coming checklist (be ready when Jesus comes again)
The above activity illustrates ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES #3, 5, and 6 in the lesson* telling about pre-mortal life with Heavenly Father, earth life, and life after this life on earth.
LESSON. To add to and enhance the above activity see (HERE) *Lesson 1 – Primary 6 Manual – Heavenly Father’s Plan for Us.
As youth move the various pieces around the storyboard (activity above) and answer the quiz questions (above), have them DECIDE to make RIGHT choices so they can be WORTHY to RETURN to Heavenly Father and Jesus someday to live forever with them in the celestial kingdom.
Share the talk by Russell M. Nelson, “Think Celestial” Oct. 2023 General Conference (below).
DOWNLOAD “Celestial” activities (below).
