Learning & Living the Gospel #9 ~ Learn to sing “Choose the Right” (Hymns, no. 239). Explain what agency is and what it means to be responsible for your choices. Discuss how making good choices has helped you develop greater faith.
End of last year, as I came to know about all these activities, I was a bit nervous as I wouldn’t sure that I can handle it and teach both of them.
But when you come to know about the gospel principles and doctrines more, you wouldn’t believe how much I have learn just only through preparing all these lessons!
And, how great is the efforts that our Church have put into to the Primary and prepare the children spiritually from as young as 18 months.
Teach the children “That they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3)
Issac and Annabelle were learning the song during February. And, both of them learned more about Agency during January.
We started our activity by singing the Hymns “Choose the Right”. Then, with the help from the FRIEND Magazine, there is a little quiz which I given to both Issac and Annabelle, which are related to the song that they sang just now. The answers of the quiz can be found in the lyrics of the song itself.
Then we came to 2nd part of the activity. I got this lesson ideas from www.theredheadedhostess.com on what is A.G.E.N.C.Y. about. It is an interesting and easy to remember and what it means to be responsible for our own choices.
- Agency is our ability to make choices. Everyday we have choices to make. Some choices are small, and some are big.
G – Gift from Heavenly Father
- Agency is a precious gift given to us from our Heavenly Father, and was part of Heavenly Father’s plan for us from the beginning. He knew it was important for us to make our own choices, so that we could learn, grow, and become more like Him.
- Choosing the right is not always the easiest thing to do, it take great courage to be an example and make good choices.
N – Never Alone
- We are never alone in this journey. Ask we make choices each day, we can ask help from our parents, church leaders and Heavenly Father.
C – Consequences
Each of our choices have consequences. Some consequences come quickly after we make choice, and sometimes we might not recognize a consequence until long after. But there is always a consequence. The choices we make now will affect who and what we are in the future.
Y – Heavenly Father wants You to be Happy
- Heavenly Father loves us dearly and He wants us to succeed and to feel happiness. Choosing to keep the commandments can make us feel good inside. Heavenly Father has promised us “happy consequences” if we obey.
After which we came to the 3rd session of the activity: How Making Good Choices Help Develop Greater Faith ?
I have included some points from the President Henry B. Erying talk at General Conference April 2012 “Mountains to Climb”.
“In a similar way, the ground must be carefully prepared for our foundation of faith to withstand the storms that will come into every life. That solid basis for a foundation of faith is personal integrity.
Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith. It can begin in childhood since every soul is born with the free gift of the Spirit of Christ. With that Spirit we can know when we have done what is right before God and when we have done wrong in His sight.
Those choices, hundreds in most days, prepare the solid ground on which our edifice of faith is built. The metal framework around which the substance of our faith is poured is the gospel of Jesus Christ, with all its covenants, ordinances, and principles.”
We ended our activity with a little discussion on what we can do better in making good choices.
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