Taking the Sacrament

Learning & Living the Gospel #1 ~ Explain how taking the sacrament helps you renew your baptismal covenant. In a family home evening, teach others about things we can do to remain faithful.

As I searched the ideas of what and how can I do with this topic, I have came across a lot of activities and the idea of having the children make bread, but sadly I am not a baker and I do not know how to make a bread.

Then I saw this “The Last Supper” video on our Church website, that gave me an idea that I should let both kids watched to let them understand when and how the sacrament came about.

The first time the sacrament was given was at the Jewish feast of unleavened bread, also call the Passover.

We read the information on “My Baptismal Covenant” in the Faith in God booklet. How are our Baptismal Covenant related to the Sacrament?

When we are baptized, we make a covenant, or two-way promise, with Heavenly Father. We promise Him that we will do certain things, and He promises to bless us.

We promise:

• To take upon the name of Jesus Christ, which means to put His work first in our life and do what He wants instead of what the world wants.
• To always remember Jesus Christ.
• To keep His commandments.

Heavenly Father promises:

• The Holy Ghost will be with us and that our sins will be forgiven.

We renew our baptismal covenants when we take the sacrament.

Then we read the Sacrament Prayers from the Moroni 4:3 and Moroni 5:2. And, learned word by word, understand the meaning of the prayers.

The Sacrament Prayers are among the very few prayers with specific words the Lord has revealed. He obviously wants His people to really think about these sacrament words and understand them.

After which, the children have a little word puzzle which I found it on the Friend magazine about the Sacrament.

We discussed about How We Can Do To Remain Faithful to our Baptismal Covenants. We agreed that going back to the basic that as mentioned in the Faith in God can help us develop faith and resist temptation:

• Pray daily to Heavenly Father
• Read the scriptures regularly
• Keep the commandments and live “My Gospel Standards”
• Honour parents and be kind to our family
• Pay our tithing and attend tithing settlement
• Attend sacrament meetings and renew our covenants

       

We had our dinner later at IOI Mall Puchong, and Issac and Annabelle were jotting and writing the missing words of the sacrament prayers in the Friend Magazine. And learned How Can We Make the Sacrament Special:

• Listen to the sacrament prayers. D&C 20:76-79.
• Think about Jesus. Look at pictures of Him and remember stories from His life
• Think about the good choices we made this week. How did we follow Jesus?
• Read the words of sacrament hymns
• Pray to Heavenly Father. Ask Him to forgive us for any wrong things we’ve done. Ask him for help to do better
• Read Mosiah 18:7-10 to learn about the covenants we make at baptism. what do we promise Heavenly Father? How does He promise us?

It was quite a lesson that all of us know and understand more about the true meaning of Taking the Sacrament.