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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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LDS Sharing Time Ideas for August 2015 Week 2: Jesus Christ can heal the sick.

2015 Sharing Time Outline Theme: "I Know My Savior Lives"

August 2015 Sharing Time Topic: Jesus Christ Is the Son of God, and He Is a God of Miracles

August 2015 Scripture: “For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; … and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith” (2 Nephi 27:23).

August Week 2 Topic: Jesus Christ can heal the sick.

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LDS Sharing Time Ideas for August 2015 Week 1: Jesus Christ is a God of miracles.

August Week 1 Topic: Jesus Christ is a God of miracles.

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Family Home Evening Strengthening Each Member

For tonight's Family Home Evening the topic in which I have chosen is:

Strengthening Each Member

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Preparation: I hope and pray that you can use these ideas as a guideline and adjust them to the needs of your own specific family. Our prophet President Monson says, "We cannot afford to neglect this heaven-inspired program. It can bring spiritual growth to each member of the family, helping him or her to withstand the temptations which are everywhere. The lessons learned in the home are those that last the longest." On Lds.org there are resources available in helping to make your Family Home Evenings successful, here is a link to that site on Family Home Evenings.

Invite a member of the family member say the prayer

Sing: "My Eternal Family"

Discuss any family business

Follow-up with last weeks FHE.

Scripture: Read: Mosiah 4:15

Family Home Evening Instruction:

Give each family member a piece of paper (see printable above). Invite them to draw a picture of themselves on the paper and then also write their name. When each family member is done. Hold up the picture of one of the family members. Invite each family member to say something good that they have noticed in that family member. It can be a quality that family member has, something they do, a talent, etc. Write those things in the box at the bottom of the paper. Continue with each picture, until each picture has a whole bunch of nice things written about them.

Invite your family to share how they felt as they both said something nice about the other person as well as when something nice was said about them.

Ask the question, "How can we strengthen each family member?" Show your family a toothpick. Explain that this single tooth pick could easily be broken in half. Invite a family member to break the tooth pick. Explain that as a family we can strengthen each other so we can withstand the forces of this world that are trying to "break" us. Invite each family member to share some ways they can help strengthen each other. As they say something add a tooth pick. When all of the toothpicks have been added together, tape them together or wrap an elastic around them at each end. Invite a family member to try to break it. Invite your family to sincerely try to strengthen one another.

Close by sharing your testimony.

Close with a Family Prayer.

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