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Week 13: Come Follow Me: Book of Mormon, Teaching Ideas and Free Resources

March 23rd – 29th

Enos – Words of Mormon

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.

• What messages do these verses have for parents and for children?

• What words describe Enos’s efforts as he prayed?

• What did Enos initially pray for? (see Enos 1:4). What can you learn from Enos’s response after he received an answer? (see Enos 1:5–7).

• How did Enos act on the answers he received?

• What can you learn from Enos about how to have “unshaken” faith in the Lord? (Enos 1:11).

• What do you learn from these accounts that can help you “prosper in the land”?
• What do we learn from Enos about seeking forgiveness?
• How has our study of the Book of Mormon “revealed the plan of salvation” to us?

• Omni 1:12–22What do these verses teach about the importance of having the word of God in our lives?
• How will we be blessed by keeping personal and family records? How can we make our records more focused on Christ?

 

Lesson: Mighty, Meaningful Prayer

Enos records, “I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens.” It wasn’t easy. Faith did not come quickly. In fact, Enos characterized his experience in prayer as a “wrestle which [he] had before God.”But faith did come. By the power of the Holy Ghost, he did receive a witness for himself.

-Elder Robert D. Hales

Based on the response to last week’s Graphic Organizer for the Allegory of the Olive Tree, I took the liberty to again create a response page that will help you to better dive into and apply Enos’s experience.

This week I wanted to focus on Enos. My son is all about hunting and has been counting down the days to Enos. With this added excitement I wanted to really buckle down on the application and principles found in the account of Enos.

I mentioned last week that I love graphic organizers. As a teacher, this is how my brain works. I didn’t mention that another reason I love Graphic Organizers is due to rigor. Rigor in the classroom refers to essentially challenging the thinking of the student. What’s cool about a graphic organizer is that I can give the same graphic organizer to a span of students of different ages and based on the accompanying rigor of the materials, each student can walk away challenged or fufilled academically.

I mention this to simply say, the graphic organizer I created for this activity can be used across a span of all ages. From my 4 year old to myself, to my parents. With the Holy Ghost acting as that personalized and added rigor, everyone can walk away fufilled.

The idea for this activity came straight out of the March 2020 Ensign. I had a different activity in mind, but I loved how well the material connected Enos’s experience to our own, that I thought we could save the other direction for another day!

The activity is described as follows:

Enos prayed all day and into the night. Our prayers may not be that long, but they can be that meaningful.

1. Identify all the things Enos prayed for:

   • His own soul (Enos 1:4)

   • His people (Enos 1:9)

   • His enemies (Enos 1:11)

   • Preservation of the records (Enos 1:13)

2. Discuss some modern equivalents of each of these (forgiveness; family, ward members, and the bishop; bullies at school; understanding the scriptures; and so on.)

3. Kneel together and see if you can give a thoughtful, meaningful prayer for all that you identified.

Discussion: Why are our prayers more meaningful when we are more specific in our expressions? What else can you do to make your family and personal prayers more thoughtful?

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Teaching Ideas for Toddlers & Young Children

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.)

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