Book of Mormon Primary Lessons

“Lesson 44: Moroni and the Book of Mormon Promise,” Primary 4: Book of Mormon, (1997),156

Moroni promises that we can gain a personal testimony of the Book of Mormon and learn "how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men" (Moroni 10:3) as we study it and live its teachings throughout their lives. A testimony of the Book of Mormon comes by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Read Moroni 10 and Joseph Smith—History 1:30–35, 59–60. Also see Mormon 8:1–4, 16, the title page of the Book of Mormon, and the eighth article of faith.

Moroni wanted us to "remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men" (Moroni 10:3).

Moroni said we should "ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ" to find out if the Book of Mormon is true (Moroni 10:4).

The "power of the Holy Ghost" can help you know the Book of Mormon is true (Moroni 10:5).

Moroni’s promise to us is that we can gain a personal testimony as to the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon if "ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith" (Moroni 10:4).

How can we recognize the power of the Holy Ghost when he is testifying to us that the Book of Mormon is true? The Lord prompts us most often through our feelings. The Holy Ghost often gives us a feeling of peace that something is right and good. It may be a warm feeling inside us.

The most important thing you can learn from studying the Book of Mormon is that Jesus is the Christ. (See the title page of the Book of Mormon).

Moroni said the the Book of Mormon "shall be brought out of the earth, and it shall shine forth out of darkness, and come unto the knowledge of the people; and it shall be done by the power of God" (Mormon 8:16).

The Prophet Joseph Smith received the gold plates from out of the earth were Moroni buried them, and translated them into the Book of Mormon.

Now that the work of the Book of Mormon prophets and the Prophet Joseph Smith has been completed, our responsibility is to study it, gain a testimony of it, live its teachings, and share our testimony with others.

When we gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon, we also gain a testimony that: Jesus is the Christ; Joseph Smith is a prophet of God; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the true church of God.

Labels: Book of Mormon, Faith, Holly Ghost, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Latter-day Saints, LDS, Lesson 44, Mormon, Peace, Prophet

Valiant 9 class - Children of God:

Child 1: This year in primary we have been learning how each of us is a child of God. I am a child of God, and I know he has a plan for me. I lived with Heavenly Father as a spirit child. He presented His plan - the plan of salvation. I chose to follow His plan.

Child 2: Part of Heavenly Father's plan is for us to come to Earth. I came to a family and received a body. I will return and live with Heavenly Father again because of Jesus Christ's Atonement.

- Song: I am a Child of God

Child 3: The scriptures teach me about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and how to return to them. The Bible and the Book of Mormon testify of Jesus Christ. 2 Nephi 4:15, Nephi states "For my soul delightedly in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children."

Child 4: Bible story, Book of Mormon story

- Song: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus

Sunbeams Class - Jesus is the Savior:

Child 1: Jesus Christ is my Savior and the Savior of all mankind

Child 2: 1 John 4:14 says "And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world."

Child 3: Because of Jesus Christ's love for me I will someday return to live with him again.

Child 4: I can live by Jesus Christ's example and serve others.

Child 5: I know that Jesus Christ lives.

Child 6: I know that Jesus Christ loves me.

Child 7: I know that Jesus Christ loves us all.

Child 8: I know that Jesus Christ will come again.

- Song: If the Savior Stood Beside Me

CTR 5 Class - Prophets:

Child 1: Amos 3:7 says, "Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealth his secret unto his servants the prophets."

Child 2: I am thankful we are led by a living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson. I will follow his direction.

Child 3: We can follow the prophet and he will tell us what the Savior wants us to do.

Child 4: The prophet teaches us that we should love and forgive others.

Child 5: The prophet also teaches us that it is important to read and pray about the Book of Mormon.

Child 6: The prophet teaches me what I should do to live with God again.

Child 7: I am thankful for a prophet that guides us today.

- Song: We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

CTR 6/7 Class - Family:

Child 1: Heavenly Father planned for me to come to a family. I can strengthen my family now.

Child 2: Each member of my family is important. I love to help my family.

Child 3: As a family we can be strengthen by studying the scriptures together, having family prayer, and family home evening.

Child 4: I'm grateful for the priesthood and I'm blessed to have it in my home.

Child 5: I am grateful for a loving family.

Child 6: In the Family Proclamation paragraph 1, it says, "The family is central to the creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children".

- Song: Home

CTR 8 Class - Temple:

Child 1: The temple is a blessing for me and my family.

Child 2: I know that it is important to prepare now to be worthy to go to the temple and do my part to have an eternal family. As a primary we had the chance to go to the Dallas Temple. It was a great experience to walk around the beautiful temple and learn more about it.

Child 3: Paying tithing helps to build temples around the world. I also know that my ancestors can receive temple blessings, when we do our family history work.

Child 4: I will prepare now to enter the temple by being reverent, dress modestly, and speak kindly.

- Song: I Love to See the Temple

CTR 8 Class Continued - Missionary Work:

Child 5: I know that I can be a missionary now by sharing the gospel with my friends. I will prepare to be a missionary by praying and reading my scriptures daily. I will be a great missionary if I am faithful and obedient.

Child 6: Living the gospel standard helps me to be a missionary now. The Apostle Paul was a great missionary, I hope I can be like him and tell others about our church.

[Optional Song: I Want to Be a Missionary Now]

CTR 8 Class Continued - Baptism:

Child 7: I will show my faith in Jesus Christ by being baptized and confirmed a member of the church. When we are baptized, we covenant to keep all of the Lord's commandments.

Child 8: After we are baptized we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost will help me to know what is right and wrong.

Child 9: When I take the sacrament, I renew my baptismal covenants.

- Song: When Jesus Christ was Baptized

Valiant 10 Class - Prayer:

Child 1: In Mark 11:24, it says, "Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." I know that when I pray to Heavenly Father he hears and answers my prayers.

Child 2: I have learned through the scriptures and my teachers that Heavenly Father wants us to pray to him anytime, anywhere. If I am having a bad day or need help with something I know that I can pray to Heavenly Father.

Child 3: Heavenly Father may not answer our prayers the way we expect, bu He does bless us with the things we need. Sometimes Heavenly Father answers our prayers through the Holy Ghost, the scriptures, and others.

Valiant 10 Class Continued - Service:

Child 4: Because I am His child, I will serve God with all my heart, might, mind, and strength. I will serve God by doing things on the Sabbath that will help me feel close to Heavenly Father and Jesus.

Child 5: I can serve Heavenly Father by serving others. If I see a friend that is lonely I can go play with him. Jesus taught us to serve others by hi example and hi words. He took care of the poor people, the sinners, and the people who were very sick. Because others serve me, I too want to serve.

- Song: Called to Serve

Valiant 10 Class Continued - Gifts of God:

Child 6: I am thankful to know that we are all children of God. We all have different talents or gifts that come from Heavenly Father. I am grateful for the talents and gifts Heavenly Father has given to me.

Child 7: I am thankful that I have come to earth to receive a body. I know that my body is a temple and that I should keep it clean and pure.

Valiant 11/12 Class - Giving Thanks:

Child 1: I know that Heavenly Father loves me and all of the children around the world, and I can show respect and kindness to all of God's children.

Child 2: I love my Savior, Jesus Christ, and His restored gospel. 2 Nephi 25:26 says, "And we talked of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to the prophecies." I am thankful that Jesus Christ restored His gospel through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Child 3: Because I know that I am a child of God and that Jesus Christ is my Savior, I will try to be like him and follow his commandments.

Labels: Baptize, Book of Mormon, Children, Chruch, Family, Gift, Holly Ghost, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Mission, Monson, Pray, Primary, Prophet, Servant, Temple, Testimony, Thankful

“Lesson 31: Samuel the Lamanite,” Primary 4: Book of Mormon, (1997),111

Prophets foretold the life and mission of Jesus Christ:

Nephi arrived in the Promised Land almost six hundred years before Christ was born. He told his people about a vision he had which taught me of Christ’s birth and death: "I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms. And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God." Then he "saw that he was lifted up upon the cross and slain for the sins of the world" (1 Nephi 11:20–21, 33).

Abinadi lived about one hundred and fifty years before Jesus Christ. The people did not like him and did not believe the things he told them. He prophesied that Jesus Christ would "come down among the children of men, and … redeem his people" by being "crucified, and slain" and taking "upon himself their iniquity" (Mosiah 15:1, 7, 9). He was burned at the stake for my testimony.

After a special vision, Alma had about one hundred years before Jesus Christ was born, he knew that he could be saved only through our Redeemer, who would come. He traveled everywhere to tell people what he had learned, that the "Son of God … shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind. … And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death [and] succor [or help] his people according to their infirmities" (Alma 7:10–12).

Just as these three prophets prophesied of Jesus Christ, so have all other prophets. Refer to Mosiah 13:33: “Did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began—have they not spoken more or less concerning these things?”

In this lesson they will learn of another important prophet, Samuel the Lamanite, who taught with great courage and power of Christ’s birth, death, and mission.

Read Helaman 13, 14, 15, 16, 3 Nephi 23:9–13, and the sixth, seventh, and ninth article of faith.

Samuel the Lamanite was sent to teach the Nephites, who had become wicked, that they "might have glad tidings; but behold ye would not receive me." (Helaman 13:6–7). He was to "Cry unto this people, repent and prepare the way of the Lord" (Helaman 14:9, 11–13).

Samuel told the Nephites that if they did not repent God "will visit them in my fierce anger . . . your utter destruction" (Helaman 13:6, 8–10).

Instead of following the prophets, the Nephites followed "foolish and blind guides" (Helaman 13:27–29). What “foolish and blind guides” are leading people today?

The people rejected Samuel’s teachings "because it was hard" for them to hear (Helaman 14:10).

Samuel prophesied that in five years "cometh the Son of God to redeem all those who shall believe on his name" (Helaman 14:2–6). He also gave signs of his birth (Helaman 14:2–6) and of his death (Helaman 14:20–28). The Lord reveal these signs to the Nephites "to the intent that ye might believe on his name" (Helaman 14:12–13, 28).

Samuel also thought about the Atonement. (Helaman 14:15–18). When we have an understanding of the Atonement we have a responsibility to repent "lest by knowing these things and not doing them ye shall suffer yourselves to come under condemnation" (Helaman 14:19). We also have responsibility for our actions for "whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself . . . ye can do good and be restored unto that which is good . . . or ye can do evil, and have that which is evil restored unto you." (Helaman 14:30–31).

The Nephites who believed Samuel were baptized (Helaman 16:1). Those who did not believe him "cried unto their captains, saying: Take this fellow and bind him, for behold he hath a devil" (Helaman 16:6). Samuel fled from them, and returned to preach until his own people.

Labels: Abinadi, Alma, Atonement, Book of Mormon, Helaman, Jesus Christ, Lesson 31, Mosiah, Nephi, Prophet, Samuel

In this dispensation, prophets continue to reveal knowledge from Heavenly Father to help guide, prepare, and protect us.

Labels: Book of Mormon, Gadianton, Helaman, Jesus Christ, Lehi, Lesson 29, Nephi, Prophet

General Conference is a semi-annual even that lasts for an entire weekend, consisting of multiple 2 hour sessions. A link to the conference is provided in the title of this posting.

The Conference sessions are broadcast throughout the world for all to see, using modern technologies such as satellite, and the Internet. It is also published in the church magazine called The Ensign. You can also listen to it or read it here:

http://lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,23-1-851,00.html

This conference was special because of the recent passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley, and the confirmation of the new President and Prophet, Thomas S. Monson. More information on these events can be found here:

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/first-presidency-sustained-new-apostle-and-other-leaders-named

More information from the LDS Newsroom:

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/succession-in-the-presidency-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints

"The First Presidency was reorganized following the death of the Church’s 15th president, Gordon B. Hinckley, who passed away on 27 January. President Monson is the 16th worldwide leader of the Church. President Eyring, who serves as first counselor to President Monson, previously served as second counselor in the First Presidency. Second counselor, President Uchtdorf, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles prior to his new assignment. The First Presidency is the most senior governing body in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The new photograph is downloadable." - http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/church-releases-new-official-portrait-of-first-presidency

You can view Gordon B. Hinckley's funeral services here:

http://www.lds.org/broadcast/misc/0,18210,5003-1-121-1381,00.html

Labels: General Conference, Hinckley, LDS, Monson, Prophet, Quorum of the Twelve

"Lesson 2: Nephi Follows His Father, the Prophet," Primary 4: Book of Mormon, 5

A prophet is a man called by God to speak for Him. When a prophet speaks for God, it is as if God were speaking. Prophets have always told people what Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ want them to do. We will be blessed when we follow the prophet.

Read: 1 Nephi 1, 1 Nephi 2 and sixth article of faith.

Lehi prays for his people, and sees a vision of the destruction of Jerusalem that is soon to come (1 Nephi 1:5-13). As a result, Lehi goes to preach to the people of Jerusalem to try and warn them of what is to come. He also testifies of the coming of the Jesus Christ (1 Nephi 1:18-20). Lehi was mocked because of this, and the people attempted to kill him.

Prophets have always testified of Jesus Christ. We can know that Jesus is the Savior by prayerfully studying the Book of Mormon and by obeying the commandments.

"Lord spake unto [Lehi] . . . and said unto him: Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done; and because thou hast been faithful and declared unto this people the things which I commanded thee . . . the Lord commanded [Lehi] . . . that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness . . ." (1 Nephi 2:1–3).

Lehi and his family took provisions, and left behind everything else, including their riches. His sons Laman and Lemuel "murmered" (complained) because of their "stiffneckedness" (Stubbornness, pride). One of his other sons, Nephi, "did cry unto the Lord . . . and did soften [his] heart [and believed] all the words which had been spoken by [his] father; wherefore, [he] did not rebel . . . like [his] brothers" (1 Nephi 2:11-13,16).

We have a prophet today that leads guides Jesus' Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), and we can know the truthfulness of his words if we are willing to pray for our own personal confirmation.

Labels: Book of Mormon, Lehi, Lesson 2, Nephi, Prophet