Ask:  "What is the second principle of the gospel, listed in the fourth article of faith?" If you said “Repentance,” you are right!"  Repentance is turning from doing wrong to doing right. The Savior wants you to turn away from wrong and turn to Him.  He gave His life to pay for your sins so that if you repent, you can be forgiven and be clean again.  Ask, "What is sin?" 

OBJECT LESSON: Demonstrate what sin is by doing the following object lesson: Sin Spoils.
 

Game: The Fishers of Men, Fishing Game  - (Idea is by Ann Givens and Lois Peterman) Use this game to teach ways we can be missionaries and when we are truly converted and repent, we are made clean inside and out instead of ways we sin.

Set-Up: Using old plastic milk jugs, cut out fish that are about 4-6" long. They need to be long enough to write the various sins on. There are some special problems to think about when making this activity. Since the fish are cut outs they will be tall and very thin. When you lay the fish down, one side of the fish will become the top (visible) side and the other side will become the bottom (hidden) side.  Most inks do not stick to plastic very well. Those are the inks that you use for writing a sin on the bottom (hidden) side of each fish. So in order to color the fish you need to find a marker or paint that is especially made to mark on plastic. Only color the fish on the top (visible) side. You may run into a problem if you color the bottom and then write a sin in another color over the base color.  Especially, if you then try to wash the sin off of the fish.  After each fish is colored and a wash-off-able sin is written on the bottom side of each fish, put a standard metal (not plastic) paper clip on its mouth. When you are done, only the sin should wash off.  The fishing pole is made with a stick or dowel. Cut a piece of string to a length appropriate for the size kids in the class. Tie a string to one end of the stick, and tie a magnet to the other end of the string. To get a free magnet, go to your local electric motor repair shop. They always have an old junk motor they can take a magnet out of. Test your activity to insure that you have a big enough magnet. 

How to Play: Each fish (laying on the floor) has the name of a sin on the bottom side so that the fishers can not see any of the sins. This is because, as a fisher of men we find that, most people hide their sins, but Heavenly Father knows everything. After the fish is caught, have the child wash it clean and put it back into the water (a pan of water). And this is like the people that have heard and received the gospel. They are washed clean through the atonement and baptism.  We can repent when we make wrong choices. 

MEMORIZE:  Help the children memorize the fourth article of faith. Write it in phrases on separate slips of paper; give each class a phrase to memorize, with younger classes getting the simpler phrases. Have each teacher help her or his class learn its phrase.   Ask a member of each class to come to the front and present its phrase. While the entire Primary says the fourth article of faith, have the class representatives quickly but reverently put themselves in the correct order. Then have them repeat their phrases in order for the rest of the children. Repeat this process until all the children who wish to have participated and the article is memorized. 

SING:  The Fourth Article of Faith, pg. 124.  Review the fourth article of faith by having each class stand when its phrase is sung.
 

SUMMARY: You will need to repent many times throughout your life. As you turn away from wrong and try to do what is right, you will grow closer and closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.  The Lord has promised that if you repent, He will bless you and remember your wrongs no more.  Share your testimony of repentance.
 

OTHER Optional Activities:

- Read the story from the Friend called, "The Atonement".  It has flannel board cutouts that go along with the story.

- Clean Again

- Have the Primary presidency and music leader work together for this Sharing Time. Sing “I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus (Children’s Songbook, p. 78). Read “The Horsehair Rope,” Part 1 (Friend, Jan. 1994, pp. 16–19). Sing “Help Me, Dear Father” (Children’s Songbook, p. 99). Read “The Horsehair Rope,” Part 2 (Friend, Feb. 1994, pp. 44–47). Sing “Repentance” (Children’s Songbook, p. 98). Read “The Horsehair Rope,” Conclusion (Friend, Mar. 1994, pp. 26–29). Tell the children that as we try to be like Jesus and as we repent when we do something wrong, we will feel our Savior’s love. Sing “I Feel My Savior’s Love” (Children’s Songbook, p. 74). (This idea is taken from April 1997 Friend)