Share Your Talents!

Developing Talents #2 ~ Learn to sing, play, or lead a song from the Children’s Songbook. Teach or share the song in a family home evening or at Primary. Discuss how developing talents helps prepare us from service to Heavenly Father and others.

This would be the first part of lesson that we learned about the Parable of Talents.

Jesus told a story, or parable, about a man who lent some coins to three people who worked for him. Then the man went away.

While he was gone, two of the people worked hard and used their coins to earn more coins to give back to the man.

But one person just buried his coin because he was afraid of losing it.

When the man came back, he gave rewards to those who increased the coins he lent them.

But he took the coin away from the person who hadn’t tried to increase it. (See Matthew 25:14–29.)

Like the man in the parable, Heavenly Father has given each of us some something very valuable—not coins, but special abilities or talents, like singing, showing love, running, or helping others.

Some are good at sports. Some are peacemakers. Some can make people laugh and feel better about themselves.

Some know just when something needs to be done and do it. Some can sing or dance or do gymnastics.

Some are good at math or science or spelling. Some have lots of good ideas for better ways to do things. Some are good with animals.

Later I get each family member share something they are good at, like reading aloud, baking a treat, performing a musical number, telling a joke, doing a somersault, or sharing a happy smile.

As each person finishes sharing a talent, have the other members of the family tell something good they have noticed about that person.

How can we help each other make our talents grow?

Using our talents helps others and shows Heavenly Father our gratitude.

We can always help family members to look for each other’s talents and share a sincere compliment each day.

We will feel happier and help others when we do.

The other part of this lesson would be how Issac and Annabelle grow their talents and share with others!

Issac have joined the keyboard class which organised by the church program, he is practising and attending every week for the class.

Issac would future serves in the church teaching other church members on this talent which he is learning now, or be the pianist during the Sacrament Meeting in the church.

While Annabelle is learning violin which actually she had performed in the Kuala Lumpur District Primary Activity Day earlier this year.

Hopefully after she is getting better, she able to serve in the church as well! That is the way how we practise and grow the talents that Heavenly Father given to us and serve his children!