It's worth the wait

   

Brief Description/Purpose:

Demonstrate that exercising self-restraint can pay off big later.
 

Objects Used/Preparation:

a single cookie
a large dessert (fancy cake decorated with whipped cream and candy, large dish of ice cream, big ice cream sundae, full plate of cookies, etc.)
 

Lesson:

In order to demonstrate the importance of waiting for your big spiritual reward rather than indulging yourself in "worldly rewards", put a cookie in front of each person and ask them if they would like to enjoy it by eating it now.

After everyone has decided whether they would like to eat it or not you then present a humongous dessert such as a banana split or a piece of cake with whipped cream and candy all over it.... then you tell them that they could eat this big dessert instead of the cookie but they will have to wait for a half hour in order to do so, would they wait to eat it?

Apply the lesson to great rewards that await us in the Celestial Kingdom, or by being virtuous, or by preparing to enter the temple.