YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. SUNSHINE PROMISES baptismal covenants mirror motivator. Youth can review their covenants to Always Remember Jesus with this promises wheel they can write their goals and post to weekly renew promises found in Mosiah 18:8-10: Bear one Another’s Burdens; Comfort Those That Need Comfort; Stand as a Witness; Mourn With Those That Mourn; Keep the Commandments.
Great for COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Family Home Evening, Bible Study, and Activity Days
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Sunshine Promises (Mirror Motivator)
1. Print and color the visuals (shown).
2. Place the sun/Jesus picture on your mirror and write on each sun ray what you will do to keep this baptismal covenant. Example: On the “Stand as a Witness” sun ray you might write, “I will bear my testimony.” Put a different sun ray up every two days and work on it, completing the five sun rays in the next two weeks.
3. Read the sacrament prayer in D&C 20: 77, 79. Talk about the promise we make while we take the sacrament: “I will always remember Him.” This promise is found on the Sunshine Promises Mirror Motivator.
4. Read (baptismal covenants – Mosiah 18:8-10) for which this activity represents.
THOUGHT TREAT: (Follow Footsteps – Fudge*). Mold fudge into foot-shapes adding small candy toes (miniature M&Ms). Melt in a pan or microwave: 3 cups milk chocolate chips with 1 (14-ounce) can of sweetened and condensed milk, dash salt, and 1 teaspoon vanilla in the microwave (add vanilla as it softens). Melt 1 minute in the microwave; stir; repeat until smooth.
Thought: Talk about being faithful with every footstep we take; sharing ideas.
*See Eagle Brand’s Foolproof Fudge Recipe.
The Prophet’s Words (Sacrament Meeting – Renewing Covenants):
The Prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley, said, “Sacrament meeting ought to be a time of spiritual refreshment for our people, when, on Sunday, they gather to partake of the sacrament and renew their covenants with the Lord. They should rethink the contract which exists between them and the Lord, under which we take upon ourselves His name and agree to keep His commandments and He, in turn, promises that His Spirit will be with us. If we could bring about the consummation of that covenant in the lives of our people with a renewal each week, what a marvelous thing it would be.
Let us encourage a spirit of reverence in sacrament meeting, and as bishops and counselors in bishoprics, responsible for what goes on there, let us see that all that is done is in harmony with the purpose of that meeting.
It should be a time when together we meet to renew our faith, our covenants, our obligations, our loyalty, our love, our willingness to take upon ourselves the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and keep His commandments” (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, regional conference, 27 Apr. 1996).”
July: “Ordinances and Covenants”
“In the ordinances … the power of godliness is manifest” (D&C 84:20).
*QUESTION “Come, Follow Me” Lesson: What covenants do I make at baptism?
