Since there's not much here to begin with, I hope it's ok that I start with some pretty generic stuff. I am hoping this blog will become a place where are family can look back and find a variety of "helps", including, but not limited to, teaching lesson helps. Many of us teach in Relief Society, Primary, Young Women's ect. Sometimes its hard to come up with new and interesting ways to teach.
Today in Relief Society, our president led a fabulous discussion on ..........wait for it.......Hastening the work. As if we haven't heard about that every single day for months and months. :) She presented it in a new and engaging way, though, by simply adding missionary-ish questions in a bowl for each person to choose from. She passed around the bowl at the beginning of the lesson with simple questions about missionary work, our beliefs, our habits, our doctrine, our traditions, how do missionary work in everyday life, etc. She then just started around the room and the person would read the ? then answer it and she invited others to answer as well. We have never had so much participation in a lesson. There were at least 5-7 comments on each ? and many of the sisters who rarely share, did. It seemed to open everyone up.
My ? was "How do you know if you have a testimony of the gospel." There were varied insights on that ?. Another ? was how do I share the gospel if I'm retired, home bound, shy, lonely, etc. Again, great insight. A question about how long we fast and why brought great discussion and verified that a person can fast even though a medical condition may limit them going without food.
I think by the end of the lesson, we all felt a little more confident in sharing the gospel. Maybe we won't find someone to be baptized next week, but when we keep living and studying the gospel, we are Hastening the Work and Heavenly Father will use us for His purposes.
My point in writing this blog post is simply to record the simple teaching idea that she used.
