Holy Ghost

Learning & Living the Gospel #3 ~ Mark these verses about the Holy Ghost in your scriptures: John 14:16-17, 2 Nephi 32:5, and Moroni 10:5. Discuss ways the Holy Ghost helps you.

Our activity day night started with a Holy Ghost Obstacle Course.

I am planning to have a fun and hopefully spiritual night where both children learn about Holy Ghost.

We did a blindfold obstacle course where Annabelle guided Issac through a course set up towards his own beloved Potato doll.

I hid it underneath the dining table. It was a fun thing to see how was Annabelle directing Issac to the hided object.

I served as distracter to distract him with making a lot of noise during Annabelle given him instructions towards to his Potato.

It took quite sometime for Issac to get his Potato. And, our dog Princess joined the Obstacle Game too, with sniffed around Issac’s Potato!

Following the obstacle course, something to think about for our discussion:

How is the obstacle course experience like the listening to the Holy Ghost?

What evil influences, or “loud voices” can confuse or try to lead us down the wrong paths?

How can we recognize the Holy Ghost?

How does the Holy Ghost speak to us?

I actually asked both Issac and Annabelle to look for the scriptures of John 14:16-17, 2 Nephi 32:5, and Moroni 10:5, and wrote down in the worksheets which prepared for them.

This is because both of them using the Gospel Library App instead because they do not have the scriptures of their own.

Hmmm… may be it is time to get one set for Issac and one set for Annabelle.

After both wrote down the scriptures verses, we talked about ways how the Holy Ghost helps us.

It indeed is a help came from above during the time I was preparing the lesson, and the talk of Elder Gary E. Stevenson came along “How Does the Holy Ghost Help You?” which was the last April Conference.

What We Know about the Holy Ghost?

With the guidance from Elder Gary E. Stevenson’s talk, he shared with us 3 important key eternal truths about the Holy Ghost:

• Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead.
• Holy Ghost is a personage of Spirit, unlike God the Father and Jesus Christ, who have physical body.
• Other names given to Holy Ghost are Holy Spirit, Spirit of God, Spirit of the Lord, Holy Spirit of Promise, and Comforter.
• The gift of the Holy Ghost comes by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority.

How Does the Holy Ghost Help You?

• The Holy Ghost Guide us in our important decisions through receive distinct impressions and promptings, Show us what we should do.
• The Holy Ghost Warn us and Protect us in advance of physical and spiritual dangers.
• The Holy Ghost Comforts us in amid of unexpected events in all our lives causes sadness, pain and disappointment.
• The Holy Ghost Testifies and bears witness of the Father and the Son and of all truth.
• The Holy Ghost Teach us all things, and bring all things to our remembrance.

Then we have a question or scenario to discuss that goes along with each related phrase or scripture.

We talked about each scenario or scripture and gave time to the kids to think about:

In what ways and when the Holy Ghost have guide them? Warn them? And teach them?

I am having them to write it down in the worksheets.

By doing so, they can increase their testimony and share with others.

What can we do to increase the influence of the Holy Ghost in our lives?

Elder Gary E. Stevenson said, “For those of you who are preparing to be baptized and confirmed, those who recently have been, or even those who were a long time ago, it is vital to our physical and spiritual safety that we keep the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

“We begin to do so by striving to keep the commandments, having individual and family prayer, reading the scriptures, and seeking loving and forgiving relationships with family and loved ones.”

“We should keep our thoughts, actions, and language virtuous. We should worship our Heavenly Father in our homes, at church, and, whenever possible, in the holy temple.”

“Stay close to the Spirit, and the Spirit will stay close to you.”

I find out that throughout this lesson, give both children the opportunities to share what they have been gone through and feelings, with this will increase their faith and strengthen their testimonies of various gospel principles.

As I was preparing the lesson of the Holy Ghost, I can feel that I was surrounded by the related topics of the Holy Ghost, from talks, primary lessons, seminary lesson, to the scriptures which keep on pop up in front of my eyes whenever I was doing the search on Church website.

Indeed a blessing!