Courage – Commandments: LDS Primary Singing Time – Songs, “Nephi’s Courage” – Primary music leader, family home evening

SINGING TIME. “NEPHI’S COURAGE” song visuals. Youth want to have the courage of Nephi to follow God’s plan for them. Write the words on the cue cards (in your language) to place on the back of the visuals. For example CHORUS, “I will go; I will do the thing the Lord commands. I know the Lord provides a way; he wants me to obey. …”

SONG VISUALS:
“Nephi’s Courage”
(Children’s Songbook, p. 120)

DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
. 40 visuals (color/black-and-white/cue cards) pdf
. Fun Ways to Use Song Visuals pdf

USE SONG VISUALS FOR ANY LANGUAGE – Just add the words on the cue cards provided.

LYRICS & MUSIC FOR SONG
“NEPHI’S COURAGE”

TO MAKE AND USE: Mount cue cards on the back of each poster that  matches with the song verse.

Ways to use Song VISUALS

1. The Lord commanded Nephi to go and get the plates

   From the wicked Laban inside the city gates.

   Laman and Lemuel were both afraid to try.

   Nephi was courageous. This was his reply:

2. [Chorus]

   “I will go; I will do the thing the Lord commands.

   I know the Lord provides a way; he wants me to obey.

   I will go; I will do the thing the Lord commands.

   I know the Lord provides a way; he wants me to obey.”

3. The Lord commanded Nephi to go and build a boat.

   Nephi’s older brothers believed it would not float.

   Laughing and mocking, they said he should not try.

   Nephi was courageous. This was his reply:

4. The Lord gives us commandments and asks us to obey.

   Sometimes I am tempted to choose another way.

   When I’m discouraged, and think I cannot try,

   I will be courageous, and I will reply:

FOUR WAYS TO GRAB SONG VISUALS AND SINGING

SINGING TIME Practice Song Visuals

SONG VISUALS by Title

SONG VISUALS by Subject

SINGING ACTIVITIES to Motivate Singing

Learning Activities:

• TELL THE STORY – Book of Mormon Stories Chapter 4: The Brass Plates – Lehi told Nephi that the Lord wanted him and his brothers to go back to Jerusalem. They were to get the brass plates from a man named Laban. 1 Nephi 3:2–4.

• VIDEO ON PLATES WHERE THEY CAME FROM – For a Wise Purpose – (1 Nephi 9) A seminary teacher uses oversized models of the Book of Mormon, the gold plates, and other source plates to help his students understand the structure of the book.

• NEWS REPORT OF THE PLATES OF LABAN MISSING – Eyewitness News at Six (600 BC) – (2 Kings 24-25) A news team gives updates on life in 600 BC. (5:12) GO HERE TO VIEW ON I-PHONE

• SHOW VIDEO (below) – The Brass Plates – Lehi sends his sons back to Jerusalem to get the brass plates from King Laban. After many attempts they are able to get the plates and, Zoram, one of Laban’s servants, comes with them. (4:29)

Book of Mormon Stories: The Brass Plates