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Handout from Christy's Clipart
I purchased pairs of wildly colored sunglasses at the .99 cent store for each of my girls. Then I made a postcard sized paper with a big sun wearing sunglasses clip art. Then I attached a LOOK candy bar and the crazy sunglasses to the paper.
Put this poem on a cardstock paper kite....Make a tail for the kite and tie it with cloth torn out of the value colors.

If you ever feel tempted
to take what's second best.
Just stop and think a moment-
this life is just a test.

This life serves a purpose for each in their own way
You will choose what you will do each and every day.

It's up to you to nourish it and make your Father proud
It's up to you to set your goals
and FLY ABOVE THE CROWD!



Lesson Helps from Debanae
Lesson Helps from Jenny Smith

Lesson Helps from Young Women Connection
I am taking the TV commercial idea of "Priceless", but turning it into useless instead of Priceless. I made posters that correspond to the word strips Study, Think, Pray and DO, adding pictures to each one.  Then I talk about each one, leading up the pretense that like the TV commercial after they add everything up with a dollar value, it ends up being "Priceless". Study - searing the scriptures to learn the right way, learning of the regret of others of not marrying in the temple. Think - Pondering what you really want our of life, Making the decision to Marry in the temple. Pray - Getting on your knees in sincere prayer asking Heavenly Father to help you do what is right and follow his directions. Then when I get to DO - I show a picture of a girl and a boy standing together, with the Boy smoking. The words say "But going on a date with someone who is not worthy to take you to the Temple" - USELESS!!! (Annie Poulsen / ga10032006)
One thing I did to start the lesson off was I had one of the girls (who I had asked earlier to do this) contradict all the true statements that I made. She justified, rationalized, etc. in order to contradict what I said. The last one I gave her--"You have a father in heaven who lives and loves you"--totally stumped her! She couldn't contradict or disagree with that! Then we discussed how truth doesn't change--regardless of how Satan wants us to justify, distort, rationalize, etc. the facts are always the same. We can buy into these lies if we want to, but it doesn't change what is real. We also spent time discussing where we go to find truth--friends, parents, experts, scriptures, prayer. I emphasized that Heavenly Father, the author of truth, who doesn't change, is the best resource and the best place to receive truth. Finally, when we talked about discerning good from evil, I asked them if their parents were sending them off on a journey to the Arctic, would they send them in flip-flops, shorts, and a couple of granola bars? (or whatever) Obviously not. I pointed out that their Father in Heaven, who loves them very much, did not send them here to fail. He wants them each to succeed; they have been blessed to have certain keys to help them to know truth...and we talked about the scripture in the lesson & the keys they have. In this section I wanted to emphasize the gift of the Holy Ghost they all had. We used a cell phone & played different ring tones which illustrated the different feelings they got from the different tones.  They all had definite reactions to the tones. Likewise, the Holy Ghost helps the us feel good or bad about things, to help us to know what is good. The girls also pointed out that a tone that might be "annoying" at first may be something you can get used to--if you hear it enough. Similarly, we can lose site of truth if we buy into the lies long enough. (Idea by Desiree Crosby/ga09062006)


 

Henry B. Eyring, “A Life Founded in Light and Truth,” Ensign, July 2001, 6. Consider discussing Elder Eyring’s scriptural test as part of the lesson application.

Charles Didier, “Man’s Search for Divine Truth,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2005, 48. Include the three steps of finding truth in the first scripture discussion.