I am so grateful for inspiration in the Things I Do! Everyday! I haven't written much lately, I am repenting! Tonight (ok this morning) I have been inspired to know what to prepare for Primary this week! I got home from SLC just a few hours ago, and my family needed time, so I didn't get to this lesson until very late (or early haha.) I have been guided to find exactly the photos I needed and the ideas I needed to be prepared for my part tomorrow.
Loved President Monson's report on the number of missionaries out serving! I am grateful to be a Mom of two young people who have taken His counsel as their guide, have submitted their will to that of our Savior, and are among those 80,333 missionaries serving currently! Wow! I loved President Uchdorf's message about missionary work and all of us having a place and none of us being perfect!
I am grateful for this talk by Elder Nielsen last week! This is a great new video available on LDS.org's front page today on letting our light shine!
I am also excited about the ideas on Sugar Doodle. I am changing them a bit!
Here is rough of what I am planning....
Hand out a domino to each person. Have them come forward and stand it on end, on a piece of blue tape on the table. Our goal is to make the domino’s reach from a starting line to the picture of the Savior and we have to go all at the way around the world! I have a flat map of the world I will place on the table, and put a piece of blue tape on the table all the way around the globe and then to the picture. We have to do our part to carry the gospel all the way around! Set up a row of dominoes. Place them on end just far enough apart so that if one is knocked down, it will knock down the next one. As you knock the first domino down, ask them to observe the chain reaction. Call attention to the effect of one domino upon all the others. Explain that we too may affect the lives of others (family and friends) in a chain reaction. By sharing the gospel with even one person, we sometimes touch the lives of many others.
I am also considering tying in this idea – I will use different sizes as some join the church quickly, they are prepared and some take longer. They have to be prepped… for these I will use the long twisting balloons!
Using a variety of different balloons, I am going to give each class member a balloon and invite them to blow it up. They will most likely struggle with this task. Show them that in order to blow up such balloons, they must stretch it, pull it and warm it up. It takes work and it isn't easy, but eventually it will be much easier to blow up. This is much like ourselves. We learn gradually about the gospel, and about becoming more like Christ. We will eventually be full and ready to share our testimony with others, but we must first be prepared and taught the gospel so we can share it with others. Then we will take the role of stretching, preparing and teaching others so they too can grow in the gospel! As members of the church we all have experiences that "stretch" and "pull" us. Some balloons are easier to inflate than others. Some pop a leak and loose air requiring more work to patch the holes and difficulties. Some are more easily inflated. They have been prepare previously or have a humble heart, searching for the truth. Whatever our situation, we need to keep working, moving our feet to see assignments not as burdens but as opportunities to fulfill covenants we gladly make to serve God and His children.
I'm not sure any of this makes sense. It's time for bed! Thanks for inspiration from above!