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Week 10: Come Follow Me: Book of Mormon, Teaching Ideas and Free Resources

March 2nd – March 8th

2 NEPHI 31 – 33

Questions to Ponder:

Each Come Follow Me Lesson asks important and reflective questions. When I first began my individual study these questions threw me off. Simply because many of these questions required so much depth and individual reflection in order to answer honestly. My first approach to come follow me was to get in, get out, get it done, check it off. These questions simply didn’t allow me to do so. In fact, I felt a little sick when I would read a question like, “How does the spirit speak to you?” and I wouldn’t know the answer right away. After a time, and pondering on that specific question I realized IT’S OKAY. In fact, I think these questions were meant to be set aside, thought about, and pondered. When we try and come up with the quick easy, obvious, answer, we are depriving ourselves of an opportunity to reflect, ponder, pray, and RECEIVE REVELATION. Is this not the whole reason for Come Follow Me? Are we not trying to finetune and recognize how we, and how to receive personal revelation.

So each week I will list out some of the questions issued in Come Follow Me. Maybe you pick to ponder about all of them, maybe you pick just one. Whatever you do, ponder on this for the ENTIRE week. Pray about it, discuss it with loved ones, then at the start of the new week, take the time to write down your impressions or thoughts, share them with your family, testify of powerful insights.

• Summarize the path to Eternal Life in just a few words.
• How are you pressing forward along the Gospel path?
• What are you doing today to follow the Savior’s example of obedience?
• If baptism and confirmation are the gate at what we enter, what do we do once on the path?
• How have they (Nephi’s words) persuaded you to “believe in [Christ], and to endure to the end”?
• What are some blessings we receive when we are baptized?
• How can we continue to follow the example of Jesus after we are baptized?
• How does the Lord bless us when we pray always?
• Why doesn’t Satan want us to pray?
  • How can we remind ourselves to pray even when we don’t feel like it?
  • Why doesn’t Satan want us to pray?
  • How can we remind ourselves to pray even when we don’t feel like it?
• What does it mean to feast on the scriptures?
  • Share with the children the blessings you’ve received as you’ve feasted on the scriptures
  • Why do children need to understand the importance of feasting on the words of Christ?
• Why does Heavenly Father want us to pray?

Object Lesson: What Does it Mean to Feast?

This week’s object lesson comes directly from the Come Follow Me, Manual. If you’re looking for a way to engage your students… favorite food is always a winner. Keep in mind you don’t have to use a dessert or candy. Simply make a dinner or a side to a dinner you know everyone loves. This is one of those examples of how you don’t have to do anything out of the ordinary to work in Come Follow Me. Just. Plan. On. It. There’s power, at least for me, in having a plan. If I don’t have a plan… It doesn’t happen, no matter how good my intentions are.

So, before moving forward think of a dinner, breakfast, or lunch this week, a dessert you want to make, (or in my case buy ;D) where you can do a simple quick lesson about what it means to feast. Our kiddos LOVE Doughnuts. They are also considered a special treat and are easy to pick up while grocery shopping. Easy. Convenient. Effective. You gotcha!

Materials:

• Favorite Treat, Meal…etc
• Towel, Table Cloth…etc Something to cover, not necessary but will add a fun dramatic effect!

Instructions:

The covering is simply to add a little mystery. As a teacher, mystery always leads to engagement. The following questions and prompts come directly from the Come Follow Me manual.

“Ask the children to imagine a feast. What food would they want there?

Hopefully, you can scaffold them along to what you have prepared and hiding. Que, the unveiling. At this point, excitement and intrigue should be to your advantage. From here have a discussion on what it means to feast… You could even list words or synonyms that go along with feasting. Now turn it around, ask them what the opposite of feasting might be or look like. Think of words like nibble, taste, pushing the food around…etc.

Once there is a good example of the opposite of feast, challenge them to experience the opposite on the surprise food you’ve provided. If you have a 4 and a 2-year-old like me… the idea of nibbling on a doughnut is TORTURE. Make it effective and fun by having each child demonstrate.

Before you give in and allow your kiddos to feast… Tease them a little longer and move into the scriptures. ***They should be WANTING more at this point. USE this in your discussion. Feasting is WANTING more. Consider the idea of nourishment and sustenance of what we need if we were to nibble as opposed to feasting…

Application|Discusion:

2 Nephi 32:3

3 Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.

Talk about it. What does this verse mean. What does it mean to feast on the scriptures, what would that look like? How often might it happen?

• Why did Nephi use the word feast to teach us how we should study God’s word?
• Why didn’t he just say read?
• What does it mean to feast on the scriptures?
• ****Share with the children the blessings you’ve received as you’ve feasted on the scriptures.

Can you think of a time or an experience where you were nibbling on the scriptures as opposed to feasting on them? What might nibbling on the scriptures look like? Was there|is there a difference in your life when your feasting as opposed to nibbling?

Consider committing as a family or individuals to a more consistent, or more meaningful scripture study. How can you make this different from nibbling in the past. I feel this is very personal, for us with young kids consistency will be our focus while maybe pulling out one verse. I read about a suggestion for those with older kids that I really loved. The individuals did the reading on their own and were each asked to bring one scripture to discuss and how it applies to their life. This could be done around the dinner table and was really effective.

Click Here to Download the Free Scripture Feast Challenge 

To add a little zest and extra motivation to spark our consistency, I created these coloring sheets that are meant to be used for the next 30 days. After each day of reading, kiddos color in a single letter or picture! I’ve got 3 different templates for you to pick from! These are a free download that you are welcome to use, however in order to download you must be a member of Living on Lemon Lane!

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I also stumbled across these suggestions for improving scripture study and what was FHE from a Women’s Conference and really enjoyed it. I’ll include the suggestion, click on the link for the full article:

Feast upon the Scriptures: The scriptures are a ready source of family home evening lessons. When Sister Fortunata Mandalari of the Reggio Calabria Branch, Calabria Italy District, took a vacation to visit her daughter’s family, she turned to the scriptures for a family home evening lesson. “I prepared a piece of paper for each of the seven family members,” she says, “and I wrote on it: ‘For the next family home evening, come prepared with your favorite scripture and a comment. You will have five minutes.’ “On Monday, when we sat down at the table, there was already a peaceful feeling. I knew everything was going to go well. Each family member spoke of a different scripture, and everyone had a chance to speak up and learn from one another. We were so happy with this format that we used it for the remainder of my vacation. “After I returned home, my daughter told me that her family still enjoys this approach.

Finally, after the discussion and a commitment has been made, allow them to FINALLY demonstrate what it means to feast using your special surprise treat as their example.

Watch this GREAT video by Book of Mormon Central to bring it all home!

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Watch or Listen To:

With a 2-year-old and 4-year-old, I understand the STRUGGLE and the attention span you are dealing with. Below are some of my favorite videos or audio recordings|podcasts you can listen to and watch with your children. My favorites right now are the Book of Mormon Story videos.**Different from the newly released B.O.M. videos. These are illustrated and READ stories to your children. THESE are PERFECT for when everyone is strapped in the car seat. My 4-year-old now requests these over the radio. Each segment is only 2-4 minutes long. This allows us to listen, review and discuss together, and listen again throughout the week.  Many of the videos I share can be found on the Saint’s Radio Channel App. (Formerly Mormon Channel App, If you don’t already have this, DOWNLOAD NOW.)

Read:

 

Questions About Baptism: Cute article from the Friend

Logan’s Baptism: A short story from the Friend

Activity Suggestions:

Free Feast Upon the Words of Christ Consistent Scripture Study Challenge Activity, Must be a member to Download

To add a little zest and extra motivation to spark our consistency, I created these coloring sheets that are meant to be used for the next 30 days. After each day of reading, kiddos color in a single letter or picture! I’ve got 3 different templates for you to pick from! These are a free download that you are welcome to use, however in order to download you must be a member of Living on Lemon Lane!

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Complete the activity page with the children, and invite them to make a goal to do at least one thing to feast on the scriptures this week. Activity provided in the Come Follow Me, Manual.