At the end of last week's lesson, students requested that we spend some time talking about how we can create eternal families and what they can do now to prepare. This topic is definitely in line with the general Sunday School topic for the month, although none of the lesson outlines addressed it specifically. So, I went to the church's website at lds.org and searched through conference talks by general authorities. We used the following articles as our lesson text:
Russell M. Nelson, "Nurturing Marriage"
Russell M. Nelson, "Celestial Marriage"
L. Tom Perry, "The Importance of the Family"
Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Tongue of Angels"
Jennifer Grace Jones, "Nine Principles for a Successful Marriage and Family"
Each student read a piece of one of the articles, and then we discussed as a class what they learned from their articles about the importance of marriage and family, what makes marriages and families successful, and how they can help.
At the end of class, I gave each student a planner with six areas of life printed on it:
Spiritual Life
Mental/Intellectual Life
Emotional Life
Temporal/Financial Life
Physical Life
Experiential Life
I asked them to think about the vision they have for their future families and what each of those aspects of life will look like--for them as individuals, for their spouses, for their children, and for their families as a whole. Then, next week, we will discuss what they come up with.
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