Please be careful about what message is given to the Young Women.  If a Young Woman has been abused or has made mistakes, this will only make them feel worse.  Be prayerful in your preparation.


 

"A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step"  I was going to use my baby footprint stamp to make a small handout for each girl.  Or use a street sign pointing different ways. Using a story about a small deviation for our course can make a big difference in where we end up.  Along the lines of using a stop sign, I made some posters once that deal a bit more with moral purity & dating, but you could possibly use them.  I made the signs on the posters and then had the words written next to it.  (Credit Unknown)

STOP - with a goodnight kiss!
NO PASSING ZONE - Passes are not acceptable
SOFT SHOULDERS - etc., are hard to resist so...Dress Modestly!
NO PARKING!  (The sign for this is just a car with the diagonal line through it)
YIELD! - to the Lords spirit...especially when dating!
ONE WAY - There is only (one way) to achieve worthiness for a Temple Marriage

Christy's Clipart
Lesson 37 Handout ~ Attach this handout to a package of Gobstoppers. (Idea shared by Bonnie Gokey / ga11102007)



A Virtuous Woman: Her Price is Far Above Rubies (from BYU Women's Conference)
Angela's Lesson Helps
Give each young woman a snack size Ziploc baggie with the following ingredients inside: 1/2 c. powdered sugar, 1 Tbsp butter, 2 tsp cream cheese, dash of vanilla and 2 tsp cocoa.  Squeeze out all the air.  Have the girls squish and squish their fudge during the last part of your lesson until all the ingredients are well mixed and there is a creamy consistency.  You could use this and explain that just as each of these ingredients isn't very appealing on their own, they come together and make something very sweet.  Heavenly Father has given each of us emotions and feelings that are intended to make us happy.  If we wait for the proper time it will be much more sweet.
Lesson Helps from Debanae's
Lesson Helps from JennySmith.net
Lesson Helps from Young Women Connection



I don't remember where I got this one, but I used it in my Young Women's group and it got the message across very well.  At the beginning of the lesson I asked the girls who had brought their scriptures. The ones who didn't raise their hands, I started to give little candy bars. You should have seen the looks on the faces of the girls who brought their scriptures! One even raised her hand and told me I had made a mistake. I assured her that I knew exactly what I was doing. I then went on to my lesson from the book about peer pressure. At the end of the lesson I asked the girls again who had brought their scriptures. The ones who raised their hands this time were rewarded with the king size version of the candy bars. I told them that the candy bars were a lot like peer pressure. If you do what the world wants and follow the path they set for you, you may get rewards here and there. But if you do what God wants, the reward is always better than you ever dreamed of. You may have to wait longer to see it, but it is always worth the wait. (Idea shared by Bonny / ga05232007)

Satan and the Pacifier - Use this example to teach that Satan wants them to think that sinning is "no big deal"...to pacify them.  As a handout you could give them a ring pop with a saying like, "Don't become 'pacified' against sin.  Be on guard."
Talk about the uses for baking soda (making cakes and cookies) then do the following object lesson. Fill a small soda or plastic bottle half full with white vinegar. Put one Tablespoon of baking soda into a large balloon. Attach the balloon over the mouth of the bottle (it will hang down on the outside of the bottle because of the weight of the soda inside). Remind participants that a cake tastes good because of the many ingredients used (flour, eggs, sugar, etc. and baking soda) Let the baking soda represent the physical relationship… In the same way, a relationship is strong and healthy when many ingredients are put together (love, respect, understanding, communication, etc. - the physical relationship is just a small part of the whole) In love and lust the physical is out of proportion and the results are explosive (lift up the balloon and empty the baking soda into the vinegar in the bottle - watch the reaction) Lust and infatuation are like this object lesson - explosive, exciting and short lived. (Credit - No Apologies Website)
You bring a clear jar of water and food coloring.  You talk about the sin of immorality and put a few drops of food coloring in the water and then later you can talk about repentance and put bleach in the water and it will become clean again.  You can talk about the scripture Isaiah 1:18 "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow".



"Decide now to be chaste. The decision to be chaste and virtuous need only be made once. Make that decision now, and let it be so firm and with such deep commitment that it can never be shaken." -Ezra Taft Benson, "The Law of Chastity," New Era, Jan. 1988, 6.
President Spencer W. Kimball warned us about how Satan tries to destroy chastity: "Too many have lost themselves completely in sin through this doorway of necking and petting. The devil knows how to destroy our young girls and boys. He may not be able to tempt a person to murder or to commit adultery immediately,  but he knows that if he can get a boy and a girl to sit in the car late enough after the dance, or to park long enough in the dark at the end of the lane, the best boy and the best girl will finally succumb and fall. He knows that all have a limit to their resistance" (Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 66).



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