[holy places]

 

Come Follow Me - The Old Testament 2026

Exodus 35-40

Leviticus 1, 4, 16, 19

This Primary handout uses the hymn "Holy Places". 

For the middle part, the children can draw a picture of their family or home.

[forgiveness - a foundation for a happy home]

 

[Primary Spotlight Questions]

[Jesus is merciful]

 

(the image is from the February 2018 Friend magazine)

[God is aware of you]

 

[treat bag tag]

A cute little tag to include in a gift baggie of Swedish fish candies.
 

[tree of life poster]

(See the previous post.) 

Another Lemonite image. Good for cupcake toppers, for example.

I also made this tree of life poster and printed it size 20 x 30". When the Primary children give talks, they will write their name on the fruit and stick it on the tree. (Yes, it should be white but I couldn't find a white tree image to use.)

 

[Defeat the Lemonites Primary activity]

 

As I was browsing for ideas for our Book of Mormon theme Primary activity, somewhere I saw the idea of Lemonites (Lamanites). The first image can be used for the invite. Here are some ideas we have so far for our activity:

Print large Lemonites on cardstock. Tape to the gym floor (with painters' tape, of course) and cover with a clear plastic tablecloth. Use beanbags to "defeat the Lemonites (if you land the beanbag on the lemon).

We are making Nephi's bow and arrows using q-tips and small elastics. We will tape Lemonites on the wall and the children can try to shoot at them. The tutorial can be found here:

q-tip bow and arrow

We are going to have some sort of sword fighting activity as well using pool noodles as swords.

Of course you'll have to serve lemonade and other lemon related treats.

[treat ticket]

 

I got a new calling - Primary secretary. I'm excited. I have always loved Primary. 

I made these Birthday treat tickets. The child's name goes on the dotted line and they have a chance to get used to visiting with the bishop.

I also made assignment bracelets:

I'm going to get some cute stickers so that these can easily be wrapped on the children's wrists. 

[be ye therefore perfect]

 

..."Jesus did not intend His sermon on this subject (be ye therefore perfect) to be a verbal hammer for battering us about our shortcomings. No, I believe He intended it to be a tribute to who and what God the Eternal Father is and what we can achieve with Him in eternity."

..."Sister Darla Isackson, has observed that Satan has somehow managed to make covenants and commandments seem like curses and condemnations. For some he has turned the ideals and inspiration of the gospel into self-loathing and misery-making."

..."we should not demean or vilify ourselves, as if beating up on ourselves is somehow going to make us the person God wants us to become. No! With a willingness to repent and a desire for increased righteousness always in our hearts, I would hope we could pursue personal improvement in a way that doesn't include getting ulcers or anorexia, feeling depressed or demolishing our self-esteem. That is not what the Lord wants for Primary children or anyone else who honestly sings, "I'm trying to be like Jesus"."

"Our only hope for true perfection is in receiving it as a gift from heaven - we can't "earn" it."

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

October 2017 General Conference

[nativity story questionnaire]

Come Follow Me, Matthew 2 & Luke 2 

THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE CORRECT ANSWER.

 

Who requested that everyone should be taxed?

A  The governor

B  The Roman emperor

C  The king of Judea

 

Bethlehem is

A  in Galilee

B  in Judaea

C  right next to Nazareth

D  right next to Jerusalem

 

The angel appeared to the shepherds

A  The next day Jesus was born

B  The same day Jesus was born

C  At nighttime

D  In the morning

E  We don’t know

 

How did the shepherds know how to find Jesus?

A  The star showed them where Jesus was.

B  The baby was in a manger.

C  The innkeeper showed where Jesus was.

D  The baby was wrapped in swaddling clothes.

 

What happened when Jesus was 8 days old?

A  They had to escape to Egypt.

B  The wise men visited Jesus.

C  Jesus was legally named Jesus.

D  Jesus was circumcised.

E  Jesus was baptized.

 

What happened when Jesus was 41 days old?

A  Mary and Joseph brought a lamb to be sacrificed at the temple.

B  Mary and Joseph presented Jesus at the temple.

C  An old man recognized Jesus as the Christ.

D  An old woman recognized Jesus as the Christ.

E  They went to a feast in Jerusalem.

 

What feast did Jesus’ family attend every year in Jerusalem?

A  The Feast of Tabernacles

B  The Feast of Unleavened Bread

C  The Feast of the Passover

D  The Harvest Feast

E  The Feast of Purim

 

 

How long was Jesus alone in Jerusalem when he was 12 years old?

A  One day.

B  Two days.

C  More than three days.

 

How old was Jesus when the wise men visited Him?

A  A newborn.

B  A little baby.

C  Young child of 1-2 years old.

D  Young child of 2-3 years old.

E  Young child of 3-5 years old.

 

Why didn’t the wise men return to King Herod?

A  They were in a hurry to get home.

B  An angel told them to go to Egypt.

C  They were warned in a dream not to go back to him.

D  They were afraid to go back to him so they decided not to go.

 

Why did Joseph take his family to Egypt?

A  There was more work there.

B  He was warned in a dream to flee there.

C  An angel appeared to him and warned him to go there.

 

Why did Joseph bring them back to Israel from Egypt?

A  King Herod was dead.

B  They missed home and it was time to return.

C  An angel told him in a dream to go back.

D  An angel appeared to him and said they should go back to Bethlehem.

 

Why did they move to Nazareth instead of Bethlehem?

A  Joseph was warned in a dream not to go to Bethlehem.

B  They were afraid of the King of Judea.

C  There was more work in Nazareth.

D  Nazareth was their home.

E  To fulfill a prophecy.

F  Nazareth was the main city where everyone wanted to live.

[Isaiah 41:10 and 1:18]

 

Missed posting this for the Sunday School week lesson but maybe someone can still use it sometime. Not that anyone ever seems to visit my blog... :D

Isaiah 41:10 and 1:18

D+2 = F

H-3 = E

...and so on.

[Sunday School lesson on Psalms]

 

PSALMS

3:3 But thou, O LORD, art a _______________________ for me; my _______________________________, and the lifter up of mine head.

4:7 Thou hast put ___________________________________ in my heart…

4:8 I will both lay me down in ___________________________, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in _____________________________________.

6:2 Have _____________________________ upon me, O LORD; for I am _______________________________: O LORD, ________________________________ me…

7:9 Oh let the _____________________________________ of the ____________________________ come to an end…

9:1-2 I will _______________________________ thee, O LORD, with my whole heart: I will shew forth all thy ______________________________________________ works.

14:1 The ____________________________ hath said in his heart, There is _______________   ____________________.

16:11 … in thy presence is ________________________________ of ___________________...

18:1-2 I will __________________________ thee, O LORD, my ______________________________. The LORD is my ________________________, and my _____________________________, and my ______________________________; my God, my __________________________________, in whom I will ________________________________; my __________________________________, and the horn of my ________________________________________, and my high ________________________________.

18:46 The LORD _________________________________...

22:19 But be not thou ____________________ from me, O LORD: O my ________________________________, haste thee to _________________________________ me.

31:24 Be of good ____________________________________, and he shall ___________________________________ your heart, all ye that ______________________________ in the LORD.

33:6-9 By the _____________________________ of the LORD were the heavens _____________________________... let all the inhabitants of the world stand in ________________________ of him. For he __________________________, and it was done…

33:12 _______________________________ is the nation whose God is the LORD…

34:14 Depart from ______________________________, and do _____________________________; seek __________________________________, and pursue it.

41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the _________________________: the LORD will _____________________________ him in the time of __________________________________.

82:6 Ye are _________________________; and all of you are _______________________________ of the most High.

86:5 For thou, Lord, art _________________________________, and ready to ________________________________; and ___________________________________ in _________________________________ unto all them that call upon thee.

107:29 He maketh the storm a ________________________, so that the waves thereof are ______________________.

116:8 For thou hast _______________________________ my soul from _______________________________, mine eyes from _____________________________...

119:47 And I will _______________________________ myself in thy _______________________________________, which I have __________________________________.

[spiritual momentum]

 

[Genesis 42 - 50]

 

This week's lesson talks about how Joseph forgave his brothers. We are reminded to forgive others. But truly, the story of Joseph is in a similitude of the Lord and how He is merciful and forgives us. Mercy is a beautiful thing!

Exodus 34:6  The Lord, The Lord God, _________________________________ and 

______________________________,

____________________________________________, and abundant in _____________________________________

and __________________________________.

Deuteronomy 4:31  For the Lord thy God is a _______________________________________ God; he will not

_____________________________________ thee, neither _________________________________ thee, nor

____________________________________ the _________________________________ of thy fathers which he sware 

unto them.

1 Chronicles 16:34  O give _____________________________ unto the Lord; for he is __________________________;

for his _____________________________ endureth __________________  ______________________________.

2 Chronicles 30:9  …for the Lord your God is ____________________________________ and

____________________________________, and will not _____________________________ away his face from you, if

ye return unto him.

Nehemiah 9:17  …but thou art a God ___________________________ to _______________________________,

_____________________________________ and ______________________________________,

___________________________ to anger, and of _______________________________

_______________________________________, and _______________________________________ them not.

Nehemiah 9:19  Yet thou in thy _________________________________  _____________________________

___________________________________________ them not in the wilderness…

Nehemiah 9:25  …and ______________________________ themselves in thy great _____________________________.

Nehemiah 9:27  …and in the time of their _____________________________________, when they cried unto 

thee, thou ________________________________________ them from heaven; and according to thy manifold

_____________________________ thou gavest them _____________________________________, who

________________________________ them out of the hand of their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:28  …and __________________________ times didst thou 

__________________________________ them according to thy ___________________________________.

Psalm 52:8  I trust in the _________________________________ of God for ever and ever.

Psalm 86:5  For thou, Lord, art ___________________________, and ready to ___________________________________;

and _____________________________________ in ________________________________ unto all them that call upon 

thee.

Micah 7:18  Who is a God… that _____________________________________ iniquity…

he ____________________________________ in __________________________________.

[follow the prophet]

This is for the first Sunday School lesson in February. We will talk about Noah and how important it is to follow a prophet. We can't follow the prophet unless we know what he has told us to do. 

[the need for opposition]

 

These are the titles from the Sunday School lesson. Some words have been scrambled and the class have to figure the words out. I underlined the first letters of the longest words to make it a bit easier.

We need agency and opposition in order to grow.

Satan seeks to deceive and to blind us.

Jesus Christ's atonement offers hope and redemption from the fall.

We need nagecy and isopopnoti in order to wogr.

 

Tansa seeks to viecdee and to nilbd us.

 

Jesus Christ’s metonetao offers peho and midernotep from the fall.

 I will be using 1 Nephi 8 and 11, 1 Nephi 11:25 & John 3:16, Alma 32:37-43, Alma 32:28 as well to talk about the tree of life. The word nourish is mentioned seven times in Alma 32. The rod of iron (the word of God) leads to the tree of life. 

[follow promptings]

 

More than a hundred years ago in a small remote place in Arizona lived a family sent there by President Brigham Young to make peace with the Indians.

The father of the family was away on Church business when an impression came to him that something was wrong at home. He responded to this feeling by heading there at once. He arrived at about four o’clock in the morning. His wife had cuddled in her arms their little baby daughter who had fallen into an open fireplace. She was severely burned. The mother, in grief, said, “Let her die. She will be so disfigured.”

The father took this little infant in his arms and gave her a blessing. He promised her that she would live, that she would not be disfigured, and that she would sing before the prominent of the earth.

This baby girl did live, she matured in life, was not disfigured, raised a family, and sang in the Tabernacle Choir. The powers of heaven gave life to that tiny child. That sweet baby girl, in maturity, gave me life. She was my mother.

J. Thomas Fyans

(J. Thomas Fyans was one of the Presidents of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was given at Brigham Young University on 15 March 1983.)

[let's set some goals]

 

"I’m sure many of you are setting aside time today to write down your resolutions for the coming year. May I make a few suggestions?

First, resolve to strengthen your spiritual foundation. This may involve setting a specific time and place to study the scriptures, praying more often, making temple worship a bigger priority, and letting God prevail in all aspects of your life.

Second, resolve to be kind to others. When the Savior Jesus Christ visited the Americas, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, one of the first things He taught was the need to eliminate contention in our lives. So, please be compassionate, be understanding, be slow to judge, and be quick to forgive.

Third, resolve to be resolute. The Lord loves effort. The Lord loves consistency. The Lord loves steadfastness. While we surely will come up short from time to time, our persistent efforts to hear Him and follow the inspiration He gives us will help us to “wax strong in the Spirit” (Mosiah 18:26).

May God bless you, my dear friends, and may this be a wonderful year of purpose and possibilities for all of us."

President Russell M. Nelson

January 1, 2022

[family proclamation]