Today Caiden Neider gave the Spiritual Thought. He said, "never underestimate the power of a single prayer." He talked about the scripture James 1:5 and invited us to replace "wisdom" in that verse with anything we need help with. He passed on a saying he liked that said "angels are a lot more willing to help us than we are willing to be helped." He testified that we are here learning to be missionaries because of a boy prophets single prayer. Prayer works. Thank you Caiden!!
Next we asked what was learned from the homework assignment. Alex took it seriously and found scriptures and headings in the index that talked about the key points of the restoration. Then he put colored bookmarks in those places so he could find them again. Way to go Alex. You set a great example for all of us to dig deeper.
We were encouraged to really learn about the restoration on our own and understand the key points. When you are out teaching others, this is the main thing that sets us apart from other churches including the Book of Mormon. Christs church has been restored and is once again on the earth, and He leads it today.
We committed each person to come prepared next week with reading the restoration lesson. They all said yes!!! So parents, please help remind them :-)
Here we practiced our homework assignment. We practiced teaching and testifying of what we taught.
Each person participated by teaching in a few sentences the key points of the restoration lesson, and then testifying of that doctrine. The next person confirmed what they said with their witness and then taught the next point.
We covered all the points 2 times. Then we talked about what we learned. and shared them with each other.
Here are some of them:
Had to listen to your companion and not get distracted so you could testify of what was being said.
Keep it simple. It was hard not to give more information,
Hard to condense what you need to say- we must pick out the key points.
Everyone has a different style of teaching, different personalities, different words, but it all works.
The order of the points is like a timeline of the plan of salvation.
The order is like a funnel with the first topic being very general and broad and widely accepted and each one becoming more specific and personal.
This lesson is the gospel in a nutshell.
As these comments were made Caiden commented that we just did the same thing of teaching and testifying but in a more natural way. But it was the same thing. Each person's comment was followed by someone else agreeing and adding to what they learned.
We also talked about what doctrines were harder to explain. Most said the Apostasy. Simon used this way below to explain about Apostasy:
So we tried it again, but now with the new understanding.
This time was a lot easier and flowed much better. We are learning and some even got brownie points for using the pictures in the pamphlet to explain what they were teaching!! There was a wonderful spirit in the room as each one of you participated and taught with the spirit. What a great group of youth you are!!!
NEXT WEEKS ASSIGNMENT
2 things.
1. Please read...really read :-) Lesson 1, The Restoration in Preach My Gospel Pg 31-45
2. Bring a friend with you to class!
We will be practicing door approaches and teaching the whole lesson in preparation for going to a ward and teaching in homes next sunday afternoon!
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