YOUTH GOAL PLANNER. REPENTANCE Time for a Change in Personal Behavior. Youth can select a personal behavior to change, pray about it daily, and record their thoughts as they seek the Holy Ghost to guide them. They record their goal attempts to change and their feelings about living with honesty and integrity. Also, see It’s Time For a Change diaper activity (HERE, or below).
Great for Sunday School – Seminary – family night – Youth Goal activity
YOUTH GOAL PLANNER
“Time for a Change in Personal Behavior”
Part 1
Select a personal behavior you wish to change.
“A change in nature comes when we are obedient not because we have to but because we want to.” —Elder Tad R. Callister, emeritus General Authority Seventy
Source. See Brother Callister’s talk: Are We Just Changing Our Behavior When We Should Be Changing Our Nature?
GOAL ACTIVITY. IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE! goals in diaper envelope. Tell youth when you present this that they are NOW OLD ENOUGH TO ACHIEVE GOALS. They don’t need to be “babied” around or be a cry “baby” when asked to change. They simply write on the “What to change” card, post them and achieve! Extra cards might be nice to keep those goals “moving” right along. READ MORE
YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. HARVESTING MY DESTINY GARDEN habit changer. Youth can learn that each thought can reap an action, habit, character, and destiny. Here they can: #1 Write three bad habits they wish to change. #2 Sow a good thought. Write a positive thought that will help change a bad habit. #3 Harvest your destiny garden. Write what each thought reaps. READ MORE
Part 2
Pray daily for the Holy Ghost to Help Me Live with Integrity (write thoughts).
QUOTE: “Integrity is defined as moral soundness, genuineness, wholeness, and incorruptibility. It includes our beliefs, the way we think and speak, and the way we act, especially when no one is watching. It is being honest with ourselves, others, and God. When we have integrity, we “live by our beliefs and standards.” President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008)
YOUTH QUOTE. BAPTISMAL COVENANTS & THE HOLY GHOST ColorQuote. Youth can memorize “When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God. When temptations come our way, if we will listen, the Holy Ghost will remind us that we have promised to remember our Savior and obey the commandments of God.” – Elder Robert D Hales READ MORE
QUOTE MEMORIZATION. OBEDIENCE – HOLY GHOST ColorQuote poster or notecard. “Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception – and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.” David A. Bednar, Apostle, “Things as They Really Are” READ MORE
Part 3
Goal and Attempts to Change the Behavior
“In some ways, all of us need to change; that is, some of us need to be more kind at home, less selfish, better listeners, and more considerate in the way we treat others. Some of us have habits that need to be changed, habits that harm us and others around us. Sometimes we may need a jolt to propel us into changing.” President James E. Faust (1920-2002)
SOURCE: The Power to Change (through conversion, repentance, and recovery from addictions)
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. ERASER PROMISES steps to repentance pencil & bookmark. Read D&C 58:42 “Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.” Youth can learn six steps to achieve this: 1) Recognize I’ve done something wrong. 2. Promise not to do it again, and more leading up to forgiving themselves (eraser promises). READ MORE
YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. JOYFUL SOUL D&C 18:13 tent-card challenge journal. Youth can memorize “And how great is his joy in the soul that repenteth!” and write how they will change their thoughts and actions on the card. READ MORE
Part 4
Feelings about Living with Integrity
“Integrity means thinking and doing what is right at all times, no matter what the consequences. When you have integrity, you are willing to live by your standards and beliefs even when no one is watching.”
YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. HOLD FAST TO THE LORD’S STANDARDS word find. Youth can realize the Lord’s ways will keep them from the fierce winds of change and keep them safe. Fill in missing statements, e.g., “I know from the SCRIPTURES what the Lord’s standard of CHASTITY is. READ MORE
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. MY BODY IS A TEMPLE Happy Head brainstorm. Children and youth can’t be happy if they dot let bad thoughts inside their heads. This exercise will help them make better choices, replacing bad with the good, saying “I will fill my head with good instead.” READ MORE
#YouthGoal #YouthGoalPlanner #Repentance #TimeforaChangeinPersonalBehavior #ChangeinBehavior #ChoosetheRight #HolyGhost #Prayer #ChangeBehavior #Integrity #Character #CharacterTraits #Habits #ChangofHabit #ChildrenandYouthGoals #ChurchofJesusChristofLatterdaySaints #YouthProgramGoals
Source PP I2
