Baptism Review
by Pam Workman

As well as doing Family Home Evening on this, we also asked our home teacher to give his lessons on baptism. One of the ones that he did was:

He gave my son three jellybeans to hold, and explained that each of those was a promise that he made to God, and that by giving God those three things, he would get something better in return. We looked up the sacrament prayer to find the three covenants. For giving the three jellybeans back, he got a chocolate bar, which represented the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Of course, my son does not have the required delayed gratification skills, and very poor impulse control, so he ate the jellybeans before the Home Teacher got to the chocolate bar part! Still, it was a good object lesson.

There are a few lessons in the primary 2 and 3 manuals (available at www.lds.org) that talk about the steps to becoming a member of the church. We went over faith, repentance, baptism, and Holy Ghost quite a number of times. I had each word written on a circle of construction paper, and we had him put them in order, talked about what each was, etc. He recognized once when we read the fourth Article of Faith that it contained those four items, and ran upstairs to get the circles and put them in order for us.