Section summarized as: "Eternal and Endless Punishment- Atonement of Jesus Christ"

The Gospel is Restored



Lesson Help by Debra Storm



To get my class ready for this section today, I brought a piece of wrapped bubble gum for each. (You can use any wrapped bubble gum).  I used  Hubba Bubba Cherry Lemonade and Extra Classic Bubble flavors.  The Extra  was for any with braces that couldn't chew the larger kind.  I told them if  their orthodontist didn't want them to chew gum, then to respect that  request.  I had no one turn me down.  I asked them to open the gum, begin to chew away, and get all the  flavor out of it that they could.  I told them to try to blow  bubbles.  I even joined them.  We had a great time.  I learned  I'm not the only "bubble blowing challenged" one in the group.  Then after about 5 minutes, I asked them to take their piece and put it  back into the wrapper and wrap it back up, exactly as they had been given  it.  They really tried!  Some were very close.  Some said that  they had changed it with their saliva. They figured out that they couldn't,  especially those with the cherry lemonade flavor because the red was in the  middle surrounded by yellow.  By chewing it, it became orange colored and  they couldn't "restore" it back.  Which was what I was after.  We weren't able to "restore" it, and we discussed why we couldn't.   Then we looked at verse 1 and 41 and  talked about why the Lord gave us those names and what they mean to us.   They thought Redeemer and Savior meant the same thing.  Then we went on to  hear the Savior's own description of his suffering for us.  They told me after that I was the first teacher to let them chew gum on purpose!  We had a great lesson and covered being careful about what you ask for, you just might get it as Martin Harris found out.  This could be used with any  lesson on restoration. (Patricia Brown / ga10102006)