Materials:
- Coloring Book Pages (Here is a great one of Nephi and here is one of Moses)
- Crayons or other coloring material
Opening Song: Choosethe Right
Opening Prayer:
Gain Attention:
Tell the children that today we are going to be working on
staying in the lines as we color. If you have older children you can adjust
this to be some other skill they could work on. Give each child a coloring page
and tell them that you are going to show them how to do it. Start coloring the
page explaining as you do so that this is the best way to do it. At some point
you can allow them to hold the coloring instrument while you control their
hand. Continue to do this until they have just plane had enough of you doing it
for them. (You can also instruct the older children to be bossy teachers as
well for the younger children.)
Instruction:
Discuss with your children how they liked coloring this way.
Ask them how skilled they would become at coloring if you always did it for
them or guided their hand.
Talk about Nephi’s experience trying to obtain the brass
plates found in 1st Nephi Chapters 3 and 4. Also discuss how Moses
was faced with the task of getting all of the Israelites out of Egypt. After
you discuss these two stories read this quote from Elder Robbins’ talk:
“Nephi’s unwavering faith helped him go from failure to
failure until he finally obtained the brass plates. It took Moses 10 attempts
before he finally found success in fleeing Egypt with the Israelites.”
“We may wonder—If both Nephi and Moses were on the Lord’s
errand, why didn’t the Lord intervene and help them achieve success on their
first try? Why did He allow them—and why does he allow us—to flounder and fail
in our attempts to succeed?”
Discuss possible answers to this question. You may even want
to direct children back to the feeling they felt as you did not allow them to
color on their own so that they wouldn’t mess up. Following your discussion
have each child read one of the reasons Elder Robbins listed in his talk. (We
have each family member participate and simply whisper what to say into our
children’s ears.):
- First, the Lord know that “these things shall give [us] experience, and shall be for [our] good.
- Second, to allow us to “taste the bitter, that [we] may know to prize the good.
- Third, to prove that “the battle is the Lord’s” and it is only by His grace that we can accomplish His work and become like Him.
- Fourth, to help us develop and hone scores of Christlike attributes that cannot be refined except through opposition and “in the furnace of affliction.”
Coming to this earth and expecting to never make a mistake
is like expecting to play basketball without ever missing a basket or play the
piano without ever playing the wrong note. Elder Robbins stated,
“ Repentance
is God’s ever-accessible gift that allows and enables us to go from failure to
failure without any loss of enthusiasm. Repentance isn’t His backup plan in the
even we might fail. Repentances is His
plan, knowing that we will. This is the gospel of repentance, and as President
Russell M. Nelson has observed, it will be ‘a lifetime curriculum.’”
Close by bearing your testimony of the lessons that are
learned as we make mistakes and of the blessings of Christ’s Atonement.
Activities Idea:
Learn and new skill together.
Go to a local art museum.
Treat Idea:
No Bake Cookies from Live Well Bake Often
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