Life's Journey To Perfection: LDS Come Follow Me Lesson and Mutual Ideas July 2015: Ordinances and Covenants

All I can say is this SUMMER has been a crazy busy one!! Last year I posted some ideas for the Come Follow Me lessons, here is the link: LDS Come Follow Me Lesson and Mutual Ideas July 2014: Ordinances and Covenants If I come up with more ideas I will post them below :) Good luck with your lessons!! This is such an important and special topic!!

For July 2015 the topic for "Come Follow Me" is,

Ordinances and Covenants

Here are the links to each organizations page for the month: Young Women, Aaronic Priesthood, Sunday School

Since, each organization has their own outlines and each lesson will need to be specified to the individual class members and there are already amazing outlines that can be used for guidance, I am only going to share some general ideas that can just be used as supplements. The great thing about this program is to allow the spirit to guide you to the needs of the youth in your class. Prepare before hand, Pray for guidance, Listen to the Promptings of the Spirit and invite the youth to do the same.

Here is the Scripture for the month:

“In the ordinances ... the power of godliness is manifest” (D&C 84:20).

Lesson Ideas: There are so many topics to choose from this month. I am just giving supplemental ideas to a few of them. Please refer to the church's website for the wonderful outlines they have for all of the topics, see links below. A great idea to begin each lesson is to invite each class member to come with a scripture or spiritual thought to share with the rest of the class. (When I was a youth we did this in one of my classes, it is a class I loved to attend and had the most participation in it.)

Young Women:

Why are ordinances important in my life? Give each class member a piece of paper have them write, "ordinances" at the top. Invite them to brainstorm and write down as many ordinances that they can think of. Then write on the board, "Ordinances are sacred, formal acts performed by the authority of the priesthood." Around the outside invite the youth to come up and write and ordinance that they listed on their list. Then discuss each one of the ordinances. Point out that some ordinances are saving ordinances, these are: baptism, confirmation, ordination to the Melchizedek Priesthood (for men), the temple endowment, and the marriage sealing. The other ordinances are also very important in our lives. Play the video, "Faith in the Power of the Priesthood". Invite the young women to share any experiences they have had with the ordinances of the gospel and the importance they have been in their own lives. They may also share what ordinances they are preparing for and looking forward to.
Why are covenants important in my life?
What covenants did I make at baptism?
How do I receive the gift of the Holy Ghost?
Why are temple ordinances important?
What does it mean to take upon myself the name of Jesus Christ?

Aaronic Priesthood: (See ideas above under Young Women)

Sunday School:

For more ideas here are my ideas from July 2014: LDS Come Follow Me Lesson and Mutual Ideas July 2014: Ordinances and Covenants

Idea's for Mutual: Here is a link to the Youth Activities Planning Site. *** This site is amazing! We recently had a short little training on this site at one of our Round Tables. It is a great resource for planning activities. It will only continue to grow as wards submit more ideas. One really need thing about it is it can link the activities right into your stake or ward calendars. ***

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