Feb 28th

This is good practice for me to be more detail oriented. I keep forgetting to change the dates on these things. If you need an updated version for GD, lesson 6, here it is:

Gospel Doctrine: Feb 28, 2016

BofM: L-6: Free to Choose Liberty and Eternal Life

Highlights: Lehi teaches it is a great blessing to be “free to choose”

Scriptures:

2 Nephi 1 “Obtained a land of promise”

2 Nephi 2: 1-10 Lehi teaches Atonement

2 Nephi 2: 11-30 Opposition in all things

Questions:

• What blessings had Lehi received through his faithfulness? (Have a class member read 2 Nephi 1:15 aloud. Note that while some of his sons were bound by the “awful chains” of sin, Lehi was “encircled about eternally in the arms of [the Savior’s] love.”

• Since we cannot be justified by the law, how can we be justified and made worthy to enter God’s presence? See 2 Nephi 2:6–8

• How must we live so we can be justified through Christ’s suffering for our sins?

The RS handout: Word file -the word file does not appear the way it does on my computer. I recommend copy & paste.

Relief Society:

My Heart Pondereth Them Continually

Devin G. Durrant

Highlights: “If you choose to ponderize weekly, you may feel a bit like a person who has enjoyed snorkeling in the past but has now decided to try scuba diving. With that decision, a deeper understanding of gospel principles will be yours and new spiritual perspectives will bless your life.”

It’s too hard:   “You might say, ‘Ponderizing sounds too hard for me.’ Don’t be deterred. Hard can be good.”

“A young neighbor of ours found a simple way to ponderize. He puts his weekly scripture on the home screen of his phone. Another idea you might try is sharing your verse with a sibling, a child, or a friend. My wife, Julie, and I help each other.”

 ‘“When you first invited me to ponderize a scripture every week for 20 years, I wondered if I could do it for a month. I don’t have those doubts anymore. I can’t believe how fun it has been to put a scripture on the fridge each week, and just by ponderizing it each time I see it, it lifts my spirit.”’-Julie Durrant

February 21st

GD:
     So my contacts in Sunday School got me a copy of the lesson schedule I had been lacking. Our stake, because of regional conference last week, is only on lesson 4 for Gospel Doctrine.
This is my 2nd handout for lesson 4, including different scriptures and references, since I have to go over this again for my ward.

     Maybe it would be easier to just past the text and you can highlight and place into a word document. If you insert the text into for text boxes equally spaced on a page (using .5" margins is best).
     Here's that info:

Gospel Doctrine:

BofM: L-4: The Things Which I Saw While I Was Carried Away in the Spirit

Highlights: “—because of these things which are taken away out of the gospel of the Lamb, an exceedingly great many do stumble, yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.” (1 Nephi 13:29)

Scriptures:

1 Nephi 12-Nephite destruction; 13-Sees restoration; 14: Only 2 churches

Questions:

• What did the Lord do to counter the loss of these plain and precious truths? (1 Nephi 13:35-36)

• What plain and precious truths are clarified in the Book of Mormon?

• What will eventually happen to the great and abominable church? (1 Nephi 14:15-17)

    ***I also found some cool handouts and resources on another website that are much more well-researched than I ever intend to make mine. Here's that link:  http://www.ldsgospeldoctrine.net/

RS:
Here's lesson 4 from HWH:
Again, if you insert the text into for text boxes equally spaced on a page (using .5" margins is best).

Relief Society:

Teachings of Pres. Howard W. Hunter:

Ch. 4 “Help from on High”

Highlights: “Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need.”

‘President Hunter turned to prayer as a source of divine assistance, and he taught others to do the same. For example, when he was serving as a bishop, a man in his ward expressed bitterness toward another man. “I said to him, ‘My brother, if you will go home and pray for him every morning and every night, I’ll meet you two weeks from today at this same time and then we will decide what should be done.’” After following this counsel, “All the venom was gone and all the bitterness was gone,” President Hunter later recalled. “This is the way it is when we pray for one another.”’

That help is ours if we will but seek it, and follow what King Benjamin, in the Book of Mormon, called “the enticings of the Holy Spirit.” (Mosiah 3:19.)

Scriptures:   D&C 1: 28; 1 Cor. 2:9,14; D&C 64:33–34

February 14

I'm posting next week's handouts so hopefully, I'll be a week ahead.

For Gospel Doctrine, I have a google doc for Lesson 6.

Here's a pic:

For Relief Society, we're on Howard W. Hunter, Chapter 3. I took the border off this time so I could mount it on card stock. The google doc is a Word doc, you can add it back in by changing the color of the boarder.

February 7

Here's my Gospel Doctrine handout:

Gospel Doctrine Lesson 5

Here's the snapshot:

It's the Relief Society's turn to teach the lesson, and since they're not working out of a manual, I will not be able to make a handout this week.