Book of Mormon [2 NEPHI 11-19] Creative Object Lessons with Maria Eckersley

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Welcome back, you guys.

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This is the creative side of week nine.

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There might be no better week to have object lessons than when you're

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teaching Isaiah because it's hard, you guys, especially to teach it lightly.

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You know, we're just trying to fit it into little bits of scripture study

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and short lessons and that's hard.

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So I think having object lessons that reinforce Isaiah's.

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Principles will help you a lot.

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So, let me walk you through the supplies list that you need for these three object

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lessons, and then hopefully inspire you to just find cool, creative ways to teach

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what Isaiah was trying to teach to us.

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It's just a way that we can liken the scriptures onto us, right?

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By having weird things to work with.

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Okay, first and foremost, I wanted to create a game that would allow you

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to work through the words of Isaiah.

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This is actually a game that I first made in 2020, and now I've

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revamped and added to and made it.

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even better.

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It's called, well, I call it greater the words of Isaiah.

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It's basically a game kind of like slap C.

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If you've ever played slap C before, it's got a similar feel.

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It will allow your kids to read and look at the words of Isaiah on purpose.

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Like they'll want to, and so that they can win the game.

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So I'm going to walk you through how to play it in just a second.

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So for that one, you don't need any supplies other than.

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Cardstock and the printable, you'll be good to go.

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Second one.

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Okay.

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I think it's fascinating how when Isaiah talks about the latter days, he talks

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about Zion being built at the tops of the mountains and people coming up.

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He talks about a word.

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He says they will flow up.

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And I found myself.

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Intrigued by the idea that things can flow up and fight against gravity.

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And I wanted some way to teach that in a cool way, mostly because I feel like

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there's really cool spiritual application.

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There are lots of things we do in our life that we spiritually flow up.

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We find ways to set aside.

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The gravity of this fallen world and we ascend.

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And the way we're going to do that is with a cool paper towel experiment.

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So for this one, you really just need water, a little bit of food coloring.

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I'm holding this very delicately.

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You need two cups, one that's a little shorter and one that's taller.

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If you want to do this fancier, watch the rest of the object lesson.

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I'll show you how you can do it with Lots of different colors, but the

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simplest and fastest way is this one.

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You just need a tall cup and a short cup, a little water, food coloring,

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and then just a simple paper towel.

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You'll be good for that one.

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Okay, third one.

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There's that key phrase where Isaiah teaches that in the latter days there will

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be some who call good evil and evil good.

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They'll call light darkness and Darkness, light, and I wanted

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some way to focus in on that.

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And one of my favorite ways to teach that principle of the

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deceptions of the adversary comes when you talk about fishing.

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So if you have fishing gear, you could totally teach this with

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the supplies you have on hand.

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If you don't have that, or you're just looking for a

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way to add a little bit more.

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Fun and game time into your, you know, lesson or your family's scripture study.

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That's when you're going to want the printable because basically you guys

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I've reinvented the fishing game.

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So this is a fishing game that you're going to play as a family in order

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to help you understand The tricks of the adversary, what the Book of

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Mormon teaches us about his strategies and how we can defend against them.

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So for this one, you just need a printable, you're going to need, I used

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photo paper on mine, but you can use cardstock or even copy paper as well.

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And then you need some line, I actually use real fishing line so

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that it wouldn't tangle too much.

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And then some paperclips and a magnet.

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So if you did the butterfly activity from last week, you probably already

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have all those supplies you need on hand.

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So if you get those things set up and then you'll be good to go and come on back and

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I'll teach you how to pull each one off.

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The Savior himself is going to tell us that great are the words of Isaiah.

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And then next week in chapter 25, Nephi is going to tell us

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that they're hard to understand.

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And those two things together make it tough, especially in a

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family setting or in a classroom where you have limited time.

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It's hard to teach Isaiah.

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So I'm trying to give you as many tools as possible to help

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your kids study it on their own.

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I don't think it's very likely that they'll be eager to study

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it by themselves, but I do think playing a game makes them study

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it without them even noticing.

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It's almost like giving them a green smoothie when you play this game.

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Let me explain why.

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When you open up this cute little box, when you make the printable,

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you'll put all the cards in this one box, and inside you're going to

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find two different kinds of cards.

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First, you're going to find these little scroll cards.

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They're made with different colors, just to be cute, doesn't mean anything.

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But on each of these scroll cards, there is one verse of a Book

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of Mormon reference to Isaiah.

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Usually, I've pulled out most of the familiar ones, but there's

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also a few odd ones, too.

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in the mix, you're going to deal four of these out to every player.

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They're going to put them out in front of them face up.

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And their goal by the end of the round is to get rid of all four of those cards.

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The way they do that is by matching them to a category card in the middle.

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So that's the second kind of card you're going to find in your game.

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So you'll see one like this, for example, it says find a verse that

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mentions something in the sky.

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So your kids are now going to look through the four.

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Isaiah verses that they have in front of them, and they're going to look for

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any word that might reference sky, a bird, a mountain, a cloud, the sun.

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I've deliberately designed the game so that there are many

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matches to every topic card.

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It took a while you guys, but it should be totally playable and easy.

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What's fun about this game is as they find something and they match it,

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let's say they slap it down in the center because they found something

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that matches with sky, then they can explain what they found, what the verse

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says, and everybody else gets to vote.

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You know, if there's any contest about whether that's a good verse

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for something that matches with sky, you all get to talk about it.

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The reason I like that is because then your kids are reading

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those scriptures out loud.

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You're talking about what they might mean and your kids get a chance to

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hear those verses over and over again.

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It also gives you a chance to answer questions that they might

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have about what things might mean.

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And so I tried to give you lots of tools to work with.

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When someone slaps their card down and they're the first one down, they

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get to leave that card in the center.

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And now they just have three left.

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And now they start a new topic card and you play it again.

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I would recommend if possible, that you have a moderator.

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If you, if you're playing with mixed ages, you might want a moderator who

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will read the card and then set it down because sometimes it's easy for

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the person who reads the card to, you know, see it first, but it'll help

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you if you have a mixed ages, but over the course of playing the game over

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several rounds, once they get out of their four cards, they, you start, you

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shuffle up the cards and you play again.

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So that by the time you've played three or four rounds, even just in 10

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minutes of time, you're able to recite verses that they didn't know before.

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They're able to understand symbols that they might have.

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Not enough connected in the past.

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Surprisingly, it's a game they wanted to play.

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Like, when I wrapped it up after we took photos, my kids wanted to keep

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going and see who was gonna win.

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Like, there's enough fun in the game to keep your kids engaged and enough

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learning in the game to really help them understand the words of Isaiah.

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And since the Savior himself told us how important that is, I think playing

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a 10 minute game, if that helps, that's a, that's a win in my mom book.

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To me, one of the most fascinating prophecies of Isaiah this week is when

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he says, In the latter days, nations and people will flow up to come where Zion is.

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They will want the temple of God and they will flow up towards it.

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Something about defying gravity like that is just fascinating to me.

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And so I found myself digging and searching to see what that might mean.

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And I read a lot of different scholars interpretations, but one of my favorites

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was this idea of how we do this.

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We spiritually defy gravity like this all the time.

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Anytime we choose to set down the natural man and choose to do the.

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the harder right instead of the easier wrong.

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We're basically flowing uphill.

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You know, we're defying the natural man gravity and we're

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choosing something better.

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We're choosing to go up.

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What I love is anytime we defy gravity like that, we know that the atonement

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of Jesus Christ must be at play.

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Because we, in our natural state, can't do it by ourselves.

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So he fuels us and allows us to, you know, push off the laws of

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physics and accomplish big things.

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And I wanted some very visual way for my kids to get that, so that's where

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this water experiment comes from.

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I can't hold it up, it's a little bit tricky, but basically all you're trying

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to show is that water can flow up if given the right environment and the right tools.

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To set it up, you're just gonna take a shorter glass.

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I would just put one drop of food coloring at the bottom.

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You really don't want A ton of food.

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You want just a little bit enough to color the water so that you can see it.

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And then you're going to fold up a paper towel.

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We took, you know, basically what is a half sheet of a paper towel and we

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just cut it so that it's long enough to go from the bottom of one cup and

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then hook over the top of the long cup.

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You're kind of just making like a shepherd's crook or a candy cane

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kind of shape so that it can have its end at inside the tall cup.

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And then you're can go up.

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It seems like it shouldn't but When capillary action is at play, it can.

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So you're going to pour some warm water into your cup.

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Since there's already a drop of food coloring at the bottom,

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it will color it automatically.

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And immediately as you pour it, you'll start to see that color seep up.

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It'll travel through the paper towel.

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It gets pulled and over the course of time, it comes into that tall cup.

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It doesn't happen immediately.

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In fact, it takes time.

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The first 10 seconds.

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You see the water moving and you're like, Oh, this is going to fill the whole cup.

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It's going to be awesome.

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And then it slows and it's almost imperceptible as it changes.

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In fact, the first experiment I did with this, when I was seeing if I could

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even pull this off, nothing happened.

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And I was like, Oh, it's broken.

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It didn't work.

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Or I must've cut the towel wrong.

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I must've done something wrong.

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And so I set it down on the kitchen windowsill and figured

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I'd work on it again the next day.

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When I came back the next morning, there was like two inches of

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red water in the tall cup.

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Like over the course of the evening, the night it had, all the water had pulled

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up from that short cup, traveled totally up and gone into the tall cup, and

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that's what Isaiah's trying to teach us.

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He's saying, all those things are available to you.

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Water can flow up, hearts will pull up.

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What's powerful to me about that is I think we see that with missionary work.

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Sometimes we hesitate to share the gospel 'cause we worry that it'll feel like

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a burden to someone or that we'll try.

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We're trying to judge them.

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What these scriptures teach is, you know, our hearts, especially that light of

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Christ that is in us, it wants to go up.

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There's this beautiful devotional, it's a BYU devotional called Something about

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why mountains something like that.

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I give you a link to one of their shorts You know, like it's a two or three minute

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video about it, but he talks about why we are inclined to go up What is it in us

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that is divine that desires that the tough we want the hard climb We want the joy

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that comes from accomplishing something so great And I think you can kind of show

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that with this object lesson I would tell you that if you are If you wanna take

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this to the next level and then you have a little more time on your hands, you

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can also do this with multiple colors.

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So in this one I took just those conduit cups.

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They're kind of like, I don't know, they maybe hold like a half a cup of of liquid,

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and I put four of those on a plate and then I put one elevated in the center.

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To do that, I just cut off the bottom of one cup and flipped it upside down so

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that I could nest the other cup inside it.

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I wanted.

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Almost like a mountain feel where you had something high at the top and then

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these other cups that would flow into it.

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So I did a different color in each cup and then did the same thing.

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I created a little paper towel loop and I let them just seep in.

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The one thing I learned is the shorter your cups are and the higher that water

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line is the faster this process goes.

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So for me when I did the colored cups, we got water in that center

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cup within 10 minutes, 20 minutes.

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In fact, by the time a couple of hours had passed, we had several inches

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of this beautiful blue water that had kind of nested in the center.

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So either way you do it, my hope is that you can show your kids that

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water can defy the laws of physics when given the right environment.

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And so can they spiritually, we can push off this natural man world and

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we can ascend when we use his tools, especially the gift of the atonement of

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Jesus and we are channeled through his.

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direction, we can accomplish things that seem impossible.

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And this object lesson will help you show it.

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You guys, we live in kind of a weird world where lots of people around

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us call evil, good, and good, evil.

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Lots of people around us call darkness, light, and then

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assume that light is darkness.

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It's a hard world to live in at times, but Isaiah warned us about it.

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He saw this coming in our day and warned us that this would be the case.

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And so we would need.

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to understand how to discern what is true.

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And then he teaches you how to seek out truth, how to turn to

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prophets and scripture and personal revelation to know what is true.

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And I wanted to reinforce that with my kids.

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So that's why we have this fishing metaphor.

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The reason I think about fishing, when I think about this need for discernment is.

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Lures, you know, fishing lures are designed for this special intent.

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They're designed to package something that is harmful, even

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deadly, in a shiny, pretty shell.

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And really good fishermen are able to make just the right lure, you know, they make

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just the right bait or just the right fly based on the size of the river, based on

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the kind of fish they want to catch, based on the temperature and the wind speed.

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Like.

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Really good fishermen can find a way to make just the right lure that will

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catch what they're hoping to catch.

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And I think the adversaries like that too.

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In fact, when I was searching this week about that verse, about

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making good things evil and evil things good and sweet and bitter.

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And one of the, one of the conference talks that popped up

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for me was Elder Bednar's talk about the cheetahs and the topis.

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So you can go in the notes and I give you some links into there, but

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I think there's something really valuable about understanding.

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Those tricks of the adversary that he is strategic like that, that

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he's always a predator, but that we can be on the defensive and that

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light always pushes back darkness.

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So to make this fun and sort of engaging, my hope is that you'll

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teach your kids about fishing lures.

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If you have tackle, you have stuff in your basement somewhere, go get it

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and teach your kids about that idea.

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If you don't, or if you just want to do a game, then you're going

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to want to pull out the printable.

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So this week on the printable, I made Basically, the updated

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version of the fishing game.

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You know how you've probably played at a carnival or something, the fishing

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games, and they're always so boring.

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I wanted to up the game just a little bit.

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So I've created a magnetic version.

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First off, you're going to have this cute little lure.

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There's lots of different colors to choose from.

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There's also this little spinning.

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printable that has the scripture on it.

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And then at the bottom, there's a hook.

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But in the past, I've made this with like paper clips and made a real hook.

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This time I decided to make a magnetic hook, you guys.

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And the reason is because it makes the fishing game a lot more fun.

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So inside this part of the printable sandwiched in there is one of those

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flat little neodymium magnets, just like we used last week.

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And then I attached the whole thing to Fishing line, and then just

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wrapped it around a tube of cardstock.

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There's nothing fancy about this, but this creates a reel that you can cast.

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So this is when you're gonna get your fish, you guys.

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So in the printable, you also have all these fish.

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I think there's five of them total.

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You're going to cover them with paperclips and then you're going

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to toss them out on the floor.

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In fact, for our family, I thought it was most fun if you also put a whole

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bunch of paperclips out on the floor.

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That way, every time you cast, you catch something, you know, you always catch

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at least a few straight paperclips, even if you don't catch the fish.

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So for us, I had the two boys battle it out and they were casting

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and trying to catch the fish.

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If they got a paperclip, it was one point.

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If they got a fish, it was 10 points.

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And I just gave them a time limit to see how much they could catch.

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What made it fun is I feel like it's a way to talk to your kids

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about the tricks of the adversary.

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What does he do?

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How do you see that in our life today?

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Like you can go in the notes and you can read Elder Bednar's talk.

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There's even some quotes from President Nelson about this, but

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he talks to us about how if you are prepared, you don't need to be afraid.

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If you know what the lure is, if you know what his tricks are,

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you don't need to be afraid.

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If you have the Holy Ghost with you, you have discernment to know.

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What's real and what isn't.

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And that's what he's trying to teach us.

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So my hope is that as you just fish and play and have fun together,

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that you can talk about those scriptures and help them understand.

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In fact, if you look at each fish, each one of them has a little scripture

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reference on their belly somewhere.

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Each of these references is a Book of Mormon verse that teaches you

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something about the adversary, his strategies, his plans, what his.

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So as your kids catch one of the fish and earn some points, maybe have them open

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their scriptures and teach us something about the adversary's deceptions so

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that as we head out into this big Wild world where truth seems relative, we'll

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know what is real and what is not.

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We'll know where to turn and how to avoid his tricks and traps.

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He's been doing them for generations, you guys.

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They're not new.

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So we should be able to defend against them.

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If we, if we keep each other informed and do the best we

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can to know what is out there.

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Thank you for being here, you guys.

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That's it for week nine.

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I wanted to end with this little thought from Elder McConkie.

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He says, If, as many suppose, Isaiah ranks with the most difficult of the prophets to

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understand, his words are also among the most important for us to know and ponder.

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His prophetic words can and should shine brightly in the heart

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of every member of the Church.

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My hope is this week, they'll shine a little brighter.

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I think it's a line by line approach, right?

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We're working on it.

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Get into the verses.

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If you need extra help, open up the notes.

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There's a reason there's 30 plus pages of notes this week.

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It's because I wanted you to be able to go to any chapter, any

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verse, and get some guidance.

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Some maybe from me, but most of it will be from conference talks that I read

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and studied that helped shed some light on what Isaiah meant in those verses.

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So hopefully that will help you.

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If you need extra help, either with the insights or with the object lessons,

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you're welcome to join me on the live.

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So that's Monday morning at 10 a.

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m.

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Mountain time on gather.

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mecmom.

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com.

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If you just go under the events tab, you can RSVP for the live.

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If you can't catch Monday morning, if that's not a good time for

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you, you can also watch it later.

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It's where we chat about the insights and talk about any tips and tricks

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I might have for the object lesson.

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So it's a good one to watch if you need some help.

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But otherwise, I think you've got plenty to work with.

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So get into the words of Isaiah.

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I promise they can be a delight to you.

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Maybe not as delightful as Levi sees them, but we're working our way up.

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You guys, I think between this week and next week, you'll find some key moments

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that will delight and surprise you.

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And I can't wait to hear all about them.

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So share them with me.

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All right, you guys have a good week and I'll see you back next week for week 10.