COMMANDMENTS Activity: Commandments Opposites Match Game – Come Follow Me Teens, Sunday School,

USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study

LESSON LIFESAVERS
Commandment Opposites Match Game

OBJECTIVE/ACTIVITY: By playing this match game youth can gain a better understanding of how commandments are broken and kept and learn how this could prevent or help them fulfill their divine roles.

TO MAKE Cut out commandments.

TO PLAY:
1. Lay them facedown on a flat surface.
2. Take turns turning cards over to make an opposites match (e.g., “Jealousy, envy, greed” matches with “Do not covet”). When a match is made, have the youth tell specific things they can do to obey this commandment.

Examples: “Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly” could be “watch only G and PG movies, play worthy music, hum a hymn when I think a bad thought”).
 3. Talk about how each action might affect their abilities to fulfill their divine roles.
4. Play until all matches are made. The person or team with the most matched cards wins!

Answers (matching cards are in the same position on the second page), e.g., the “Choosing not to marry, choosing not to have children, homosexuality” card matches with the opposite “Multiply and replenish the earth” card.

THOUGHT TREAT: CBU (Cinch-By-Inch) Wafer Cookies. Provide three wafer cookies for each youth and have them write a letter “C” “B” and “I” on each of the crackers with a tube of frosting. Mark the wafers along the sides like a ruler, showing the inch, quarter-inch, half-inch, and three-fourth-inch marks (using short lines like a ruler).
     Tell youth that keeping the commandments is “a cinch by the inch.” when we resist temptation each day, we can fulfill our divine roles and return to our heavenly home. This way we stay on the path and we are always ready to return to our Heavenly Father. 
     Review the 12 ideas found on the game as you eat the wafers.

LESSON IDEAS (for the above activity):

Present Young Women Manual 2 Lesson 4 “Commandments Help Me Fulfill Divine Roles” ⇒ 

MORE LESSON IDEAS:

• COME FOLLOW ME New Testament Lesson 17 “I Am the Good Shepherd” (Keeping the commandments will help me know they are true) ⇒ 

• COME FOLLOW ME New Testament Lesson 19 “What Lack I Yet?” (Jesus wants little children to come to Him so He can bless them. If we obey the commandments we can receive eternal life. Jesus can help us know what I need to do to progress.) ⇒ 

Share the following statements by President Spencer W. Kimball and by Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:

“To be a righteous woman is a glorious thing in any age. To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling. The righteous woman’s strength and influence today can be tenfold what it might be in more tranquil times” (Teachings: Spencer W. Kimball, 217).

“Sisters, your sphere of influence is a unique sphere—one that cannot be duplicated by men. No one can defend our Savior with any more persuasion or power than can you—the daughters of God who have such inner strength and conviction. The power of the voice of a converted woman is immeasurable, and the Church needs your voices now more than ever” (M. Russell Ballard, “Men and Women and Priesthood Power,” Ensign, Sept. 2014, 33).