All human beings—male
and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or
daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and
destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal,
and eternal identity and purpose.
Before the Lesson Please read:
Song
- At night, when I'm alone in bed,
I close my eyes
and see
The many things
I'm thankful for
That God has given
me.
I see my friends
and teachers, too,
And others who
love me.
These many
blessings make me feel
So thankful to be
me.
Scripture
19 What?
know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Lesson
Go over the proclamation part that we are learning
today. Let them ask any questions that they might have about it.
Show them a picture of the Joseph Smiths first vision.
Point out that the Jesus and Heavenly Father look like us. Share with them that
they were the ones that created our bodies. Then talk about gender. Point out
the girls in the family and then point out the boys. Tell them that Heavenly
Father created our bodies for specific purposes. Explain to them how much mom
and dad love them, and that if they love them so much how much do you think
Heavenly Father loves them. And because he loves us he had to send us to Earth
so that we could grow and learn to become more like him. We were created in
Heaven just like we are now. Point out the boys and tell them that they were
boys in Heaven as well, do the same for the girls.
Elder Russell
M. Nelson explained that life is a gift. He said “As sons and daughters for
God, we cherish life as a gift from him…Life comes from life It is a gift from
our Heavenly Father. It is eternal, as he is eternal. Innocent life is not sent
by him to be destroyed! This doctrine is not of me, but is that of the living
God and of his divine Son.”
Because our bodies are a gift from Heavenly Father
we need to treat it with respect. We need to make sure that we are doing the
right things all the time.
List off some of the cool things boys can do to make
sure they are doing the right thing
Examples are
: Keeping our bodies healthy and strong, helping others with our strong arms,
blessing the sacrament when we are older…
Now list off some things girls can do to make sure
they are doing the right things
Examples are
: Wearing modest clothing, wearing pretty dresses, learning how to cook to help
others feel better…
End with a testimony of the sacredness of our
bodies, and that Heavenly Father created us for a purpose and it is up to us to
fulfill that purpose.
Games:
Choose an activity that will best suite your family
1. Create
a book all about what they are going to do when they grow up.
2. Make
a silhouette of each member of the family and find a place in the home
to hang them up where everyone can see them
3. Play
house with everyone doing a role in the family that they don’t normally do.
4. Trace
the kids bodies out on butcher paper and have them color themselves in
Treats:
Make giant sugar cookies, and let them decorate them
with candy to make their faces.
Follow up throughout the week:
Elder Richard G.
Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has taught that our creation as
male and female children of God “was done spiritually in your premortal
existence when you lived in the presence of your Father in Heaven. Your gender
existed before you came to earth.”
Take each child and do something with them that will help
them in their path to understanding who they are as children of God.
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