USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home lessons, Family Home Evening, Young Women, Activity Days, Sunday School
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Build up the Kingdom: Time, Talents, Means tent card
OBJECTIVE: BUILD KINGDOM OF GOD Activity: Time, Talents, and Means tent-card
ACTIVITY: This tent card can remind youth of King Benjamin’s address to the Nephites on the law of sacrifice and consecration, found in Mosiah 2:34: “I say unto you, that there are not any among you, except it be your little children that have not been taught concerning these things, but what knoweth that ye are eternally indebted to your heavenly Father, to render to him all that you have and are ….”
1. Youth can memorize the scripture on the tent card.
2. They can then write three ways you can build up the kingdom of God by giving of their TIME, TALENTS, and MEANS.
Ways to Build up the Kingdom of God:
• Time: Tending children while parents attend the temple or elders quorum party. Help Primary leaders with handouts and visuals to use during a Primary sharing time. Create toys for the Primary nursery. Read and present special activities for the Primary nursery.
• Talents: Bake bread for a neighbor, clean an elderly person’s home, serve them, and provide an ongoing friendship.
• Means: Use your babysitting money to buy flowers or other needed items for the elderly. Pay your tithing. Add extra money to the mission fund or fast offerings.
TO MAKE print activity in color or black and white and color. Fold card to stand up.
THOUGHT TREAT: Sample and Share Cookies. Have youth bring two plates of their favorite cookies (two for everyone attending). Then divide cookies into two plates each one to take home and one to take to share with a neighbor. Make sure you don’t duplicate assignments (neighbors you share cookies with). This activity helps youth share of their TIME, TALENTS, and MEANS. Note: You might even collect recipes to share.
MUTUAL NIGHT & FAMILY NIGHT ACTIVITIES
“COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS” SERVICE FUN:
Tell youth that when we serve someone less fortunate than ourselves, we not only feel good about serving, but we count our blessings! Suggest and do one or more of the following: • Serve and/or clean up after a ward dinner • Read to or teach children skills • Have an elf night, leaving notes, packages, or treats anonymously • Visit the elderly often to cheer and offer assistance • Visit a nursing home on holidays, bearing cards, gifts, and entertainment • Read to the elderly and share your favorite classical music • Help the handicapped
COOKIES FOR NEIGHBORS:
1. Make and share a batch of cookies for youth to sample.
2. Ask youth to make and deliver a batch of cookies for a neighbor who is a nonmember or someone in need of fellowship.
3. Tell them that this is one way they can build up the kingdom of God by sharing their time, talents, and means.
VIDEO: You Never Know How Much Good You Do
Mormon Channel
SOURCE: YW3.28
MORE LESSON IDEAS:
• Young Women Manual 3 Lesson 28* ideas for which the above activity represents.
IDEAS: PART B Serving in the Church ⇒
• LDS Living (Young Women Lesson 28: Consecration and Sacrifice ⇒
*Lesson 28: Consecration and Sacrifice
M. Russell Ballard, “The Law of Sacrifice, ”Ensign, Oct. 1998, 6–13.
Carol B. Thomas, “Sacrifice: An Eternal Investment, ”Ensign, May, 2001, 63–64.
Robert J. Whetten, “How Can I Help?” Friend, Aug. 2000, inside front cover.
“I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go,” Hymns, no. 270.
