Adult leaders will present challenging situations (such as “Your friend invites you to a drinking party”). Divide the participants into two teams and ask them to lie or sit down on either side of the rope (they can’t move after they do). Play scripture Battleship by tying a rope between two trees and hanging long blankets from the rope so the people on one side of the blankets cannot see the people on the other side. Find creative ways, such as an obstacle course, to show how this armor could protect them from spiritual danger. ![]() Build armor with your class or quorum out of inexpensive material, such as cardboard or paper. Consider the significance of each piece of the armor. Read and discuss scripture passages about the armor of God (see Ephesians 6:10–17 D&C 27:15–18). Use a game to teach a story or principle from the scriptures. Learn principles of the gospel and scripture stories in creative ways. As the youth reach the end of the rope, remove each blindfold so they can see that they reached the Savior.Īfter all have had a chance to participate, invite the youth to share their impressions of the activity and discuss what they learned about exercising their faith, listening to the Spirit, and enduring to the end. Have the leader representing the Spirit give wise directions for the youth to follow (such as “step over the log” or “turn left”), and have other leaders attempt to deceive the youth by giving them bad directions. Guide each youth to the beginning of the rope to complete the obstacle course while blindfolded. Tell the youth that one leader will represent the voice of the Spirit, and let all the youth hear that leader’s voice. Explain that this is a silent activity in which they must heed warnings and hold tightly to the rope. Invite a leader or youth to share with the group a short message about faith. Display a picture of the Savior at the end of the obstacle course. This could be done outdoors using trees and other natural features or indoors using simple furniture or other items. Descriptionīefore the activity, weave a rope through a short obstacle course. Gordon B.Practice exercising faith and listening to the Spirit. We join with you in an expression of humble gratitude for His willing sacrifice and pray the blessings of heaven will attend us all, as we commemorate at this Easter time the hope and eternal promise of the Resurrection. We offer our solemn testimony that He lives that the blessings of the Resurrection will be realized for each of us. Each of us may lay aside all wonder, all fear of the darkness of death and rejoice, “having a perfect brightness of hope.” (3 Nephi 31:20) We proclaim that the “bands of death” (Mosiah 15:8) have, in very deed, been broken for the children of men. By virtue of His loving gift of life, each of us will rise from the grave, body and spirit joined together inseparably throughout eternity. ![]() ![]() ![]() We now rejoice with all of faithful Christendom at the marvelous message of the Resurrection. Confusion and dismay were not to last, however, as the Resurrected Lord made manifest to those so dear to Him in life the reality of eternal life and the miracle of the Resurrection. Similar concern must have filled the mind of Mary Magdalene as she gazed into the sepulcher now void of the body of the Master. In that first bright Easter morn, Peter and John ran with alarm to the empty tomb, into which had been placed the lifeless body of the Savior Jesus Christ just days before. Topics: Easter, Fathers & Fatherhood, Resurrection Holland | “The Hands of the Fathers,” Ensign May 1999 Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father? Might we earn more of that love by trying to be more of what God was to His child? In any case, we do know that a young person’s developing concept of God centers on characteristics observed in that child’s earthly parents.”Įlder Jeffrey R. As a father, I wonder if I and all other fathers could do more to build a sweeter, stronger relationship with our sons and daughters here on earth. And we can, on an Easter weekend, yearn to live worthily of some portion of that relationship ourselves. For two who were one as these two were one, what must that embrace have been like? What must that divine companionship be yet? We can only wonder and admire. I have wondered what that reunion must have been like: the Father that loved this Son so much, the Son that honored and revered His Father in every word and deed. “I confess that I have reflected at length upon that moment and the resurrection which was shortly to follow it.
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