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Temple
Marriage Activity Idea
Christy's Clipart
(Idea by Cheryl G.): Have
post cards made up for you to hand out to the girls, tell them that you are
giving them this post card to hold on to until that special day comes when you
can kneel with your husband across the altar to be sealed . Tell them you want
them to mail this post card back to you. On the front put a cute little couple
(any clip art or rubber stamp)...and the words "GOING TO THE TEMPLE" . On the
back put this poem:
Dear (name),
I'm going to the temple and I'm as happy as I can be
I have tried to live my life So Heavenly Father could be proud of me.
I am keeping my promise To let you and (advisor name) know
So that you could be happy too, Now that I've reached my temple goal.
I bought little sheer bags, like the ones they give candy in at
weddings. In them I put a dove for "Haven of Peace." Little hearts for Service.
Promise type rings for Covenants (two way promise). And little wedding
bubbles for Revelation. Reasoning behind the bubbles: invisible, floats on the
wind like a whisper, the spirit whispers to us. I then splurged and bought
little jewelry charms of crowns. I told them that the temple is where they find
their
inner princess. The lesson turned out very well. I also ended up having a
couple of non lds young ladies that came with their friends and an inactive that
it was her first Sunday back. I also gave them white daisies to remind them to
stay pure and happy like the daisies. The girls loved it and more
importantly they "got it." The non lds gals loved the handout. I bore my
testimony to them when I gave them the crowns that we are daughters or our
Heavenly Father that we really are spirit princesses. The visitors I could tell
were very touched. (Idea shared by Pam / ga04252007)
M & M Marriage Pocket
Section 132 in Doctrine and Covenants talks about Temple Marriage. Attach this
saying to a photocopy of Doctrine and Covenants 132: "Temple
marriage is in section 132. "Getting married in the temple is as easy as 1-3-2.
If it were really easy, it would be as easy as 1-2-3."
Temple Dress - White Hanky Card
Temple Hangers - Purchase white, padded
hangers from a lingerie store, replace the ribbon and glue on a couple of tiny
flowers, available from a craft store or Wal-Mart, and laminated a poem ("Hang
on to your values, Hang on to your testimony, Hang on to you goals, So that
someday you can 'hang' your temple dress on me") and attached that with very
narrow white ribbon. There is a similar temple hanger
on this site.
You've been recommended
Arrange for a woman who has been married in the temple to speak on the topic
"The Beginning of a Kingdom." The following may suggest ideas for her
presentation: Family portraits, Her feelings about the experience of being
married in the temple, The influence that being married in the temple has had on
her marriage, The blessings of a temple marriage, Some of the challenges of
marriage, Some spiritual experiences.
I was talking to friend about this lesson and she told me how a
girl in her ward had written in her mission journal qualities she wanted in her
future husband in two columns titled "Ingredients" and "Frosting." She then went
on to elaborate that the ingredients column contained items that were a must for
temple marriage and a good husband (honoring his priesthood, a member of the
church) and the frosting column contained items that weren't necessary, but a
bonus (like clean white teeth). She talked about how having just one ingredient
wouldn't work, as it is when you are making cookies or cupcakes. You have to
have all the ingredients to make it good. And substituting usually doesn't work
very well either...I am going to give a couple of my girls one ingredient (like
butter or flour) as a "pretend" treat, and one girl a cupcake without frosting,
and one a cupcake with frosting. Then tie in the important qualities or
ingredients and the necessity of having them all. Eating flour is not that
great, after all. In the end I will probably let them frost and maybe
decorate their own cupcakes and give them a couple of recipe cards with the
appropriate titles "Ingredients" and "Frosting" to put in their journals.
(Idea shared by Jeri Dawn McKellar
/ ga05162007)
When we had a similar lesson last year, I went to the local
library and borrowed out all their bridal magazines. I took these into class and
told them to start planning their wedding (I was impressed with our girls as
most of them said they couldn't find a dress that was appropriate for the
temple!). Anyway, I let them get excited over the magazines and ohh and ahh for
a while and share what they would choose. I then brought their attention to the
fact that a "wedding" is not a "marriage" and how when deciding upon who to
marry to make sure it is not just for the wedding. For the handout I got two
quotes - "When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past"
and "I believe that the single most important thing you will ever do in this
world is to marry the right person, at the right place, by the right authority
(Bruce R McKonkie) and two pictures - our local temple and a picture of a
sealing room (I think I searched through the old New Era for this one). I put
the first quote on the picture of our local temple and the second quote on the
picture of the sealing room and then laminated it. I made the handout so it was
the size of a credit card and would be able to fit in their wallets for them to
have with them as a reminder always.
(Shared by Jacqueline Jennings / ga04102007)
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What I did is get two of those gift bags - one was a lovely
wedding looking
one that was nice and big, the other was just a little plain white one. In the
big bag I wrapped up to lovely "wine" glasses that I have and in the small one
I put my temple recommend. I put a nice ribbon around the big bag and made it
look really nice. I then asked the girls which one they would prefer - the big
one was wrapped nicely, was nice and big, looked really interesting while the
small one was just plain and white and would only have a really little thing
in it. Luckily the picked the big one - I had a girl unwrap the glasses and
explained to them how they were a lovely pair of glasses but what would happen
if one broke - I wouldn't be able to replace it as I couldn't find exactly the
same sort of glasses
anywhere - so all I was left with was one glass that would never be a pair
again. I then had someone open the small bag and take out my temple recommend.
I asked them what they would rather for their wedding. The girls were really
quiet and you could really feel the spirit in the room - especially when they
realized that the greatest gift they could have on their wedding day was a
gift they could only give to themselves - that of being able to be married in
the temple. (Idea by Jacqueline Jennings / ga05022007)
"Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the
scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me a
young woman who faithfully attends her Church meetings, who is a seminary
graduate, who has earned her Young Womanhood Recognition award and wears it with
pride! Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal
purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you
a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout
eternity." President Ezra Taft Benson
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