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Week 26 COME FOLLOW ME: Doctrine and Covenants – TEACHING IDEAS & RESOURCES | D&C Sections 67 – 70

Questions to Ponder:

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. Each Come Follow Me Lesson asks important and reflective questions.

• What do you learn about prophets and revelation from verses 1–9? What additional insights do you gain from 68:3–6?
• How might the declaration in verse 4 help someone who is being sent to preach the gospel?
  • How do these words apply to you?
  • Think of a time when you were “moved upon by the Holy Ghost” (verse 3) to say or do something.
  • What do you find in these verses that can give you confidence to follow spiritual promptings?
• According to Doctrine and Covenants 68:25–28, what are some of the “basic gospel doctrines” that President Jones mentioned that parents should teach their children?
  • Why is this important responsibility given to parents?
  • What would you say to a parent who doesn’t feel qualified to teach these things to his or her children?
• How do jealousy, fear, and pride keep us from growing closer to the Lord?
  • Why can’t a “natural man” be in the Lord’s presence? (verse 12; see also Mosiah 3:19).
  • What do we find in these verses that inspires us to “continue in patience until [we] are perfected”? (verse 13).
• These verses contain important counsel to “the inhabitants of Zion” (verse 26). What are we inspired to improve on after reading these verses? It might be fun to create pictures depicting some of the principles in these verses and hide them throughout your home. Then, in the coming days when someone finds a picture, you could use that as an opportunity to teach about that principle.
  • Why is the home the best place for children to learn these things?
• What counsel did the Lord give in verse 1 about Oliver’s journey?
  • Why is it important to be with people “who will be true and faithful”? (verse 1).
  • When have friends influenced us to make good or bad decisions?
  • How can we be a good influence on others?
• In what sense could we be considered “stewards over the revelations and commandments”?

 

Lesson:

I loved the idea of using this week to talk about and teach the importance of baptism. I found this fun idea from Sheena at Little LDS Ideas and thought it went along perfectly with this suggestion from Come Follow Me, this week.

• These verses contain important counsel to “the inhabitants of Zion” (verse 26). What are we inspired to improve on after reading these verses? It might be fun to create pictures depicting some of the principles in these verses and hide them throughout your home. Then, in the coming days when someone finds a picture, you could use that as an opportunity to teach about that principle.

Instead of hiding the principles around the house you could make a fun punch a cup game and take turns discussing and reviewing. You could do them all in one class time, or throughout the week with your family!

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***Instructions, printables, and questions to include in the punch a cup game is included in the blog post! 

Sheena’s activity is mainly for kiddos preparing for baptism, however you could easily tweak this idea for you own study by adding pictures of the principles taught in section 68!

If you do this activity, PLEASE take pictures and share them, or comment below to let me know how it went! I LOVE hearing from you.

“Besides, if the choice is between reforming other Church members or ourselves, is there really any question about where we should begin? The key is to have our eyes wide open to our own faults and partially closed to the faults of others—not the other way around! The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings”

-Neal A. Maxwell

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Watch or Listen To:

With young children, 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.  Many of these are PERFECT for when everyone is strapped in the car seat. My 5-year-old now requests many of these over the radio. 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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Read:

• Activity Suggestion from the Friend
• Scripture Stories: Doctrine and Covenants
• For Young Readers: Scripture Stories

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Activity Suggestions:

 

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Doctrine and Covenants Coloring Book:

Come Follow Me Activities:

Kate of Play Beyond the Box started @comefollowmeactivities Each week she posts a FREE Weekly Lesson plan that breaks down Come Follow Me into simple, easy to digest and implement, DAILY LESSONS and activities. Her lessons and activities are created with primary-aged children in mind.

Click Here to check out this week’s Activity Schedule for Come Follow Me by @Comefollowmeactivities

Norman The Latter Day Saint

I found ANOTHER free, weekly resource that you are going to LOVE! Danette Smith and Brittany Smith, the creators behind @NormantheLatterdaySaint share the sweetest illustrated coloring pages to go along with Come Follow Me each week! Check out this week’s coloring page below, then check out their, “Norman the Latter Day Saint,” picture-book series! They create wonderful children’s book with LDS themes.

***There are lots of fun coloring pages to pick from, SCROLL DOWN to the bottom of the page to find the most recent Come Follow Me Coloring Page

CLICK HERE to Download this week’s Norman Book Series Coloring Page

Activity Suggestion from Church Magazines:

• Baptism Reminders

  For Doctrine and Covenants 67–70

  • Sing “When I Am Baptized” (Children’s Songbook, 103).

  • Jesus taught that children can be baptized after they have turned eight years old (see Doctrine and Covenants 68:27). You can read a story on page 16 about a girl being baptized.

  • Find items around your home that remind you of baptism. A cup of water could remind you of how we are baptized by immersion. A piece of white cloth could remind you of how we wear white. A blanket could remind you of the warm feeling of the Holy Ghost. What else can you think of?

• For Doctrine and Covenants 67–70: Find pictures of the prophet on the Church’s website or in the Church magazines. Help your little ones say, “The prophet teaches God’s word.”

Activity Suggestions From Come Follow Me:

• Tell the children that when the Lord sent Oliver Cowdery to Missouri, He said that someone “true and faithful” (verse 1) should go with him, so He also sent John Whitmer. What does it mean to be true and faithful? How can we make sure we are true and faithful so that the Lord can use us to bless others?

  • Invite a few children to tell about someone they know who they think is “true and faithful.” How do they know that person is true and faithful? Help them see that the Lord trusted John Whitmer because he was, at this time, true and faithful (see Doctrine and Covenants 69:1–2). Sing together a song that encourages the children to be true and faithful like the Savior, such as “I’m Trying to Be like Jesus” (Children’

• Invite the children to count to eight using their fingers. What is special about being eight years old? Help the children recognize that when they are eight years old, they can be baptized. Using words and phrases found in Doctrine and Covenants 68:25–28, share with them some of the things the Lord wants them to learn about before they are eight (see also Articles of Faith 1:4). Help them understand concepts that might not be familiar to them.