Book of Mormon [ENOS-WORDS OF MORMON] Creative with Maria Eckersley

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Okay, we've covered the insights and the questions.

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Now it's time to move into the creative side of week 16.

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So just like every other week, I've got three simple object lessons to help

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you connect what you're learning in these verses to what your kids might be

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experiencing in their everyday lives.

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I just try and do it in three minutes.

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surprising creative ways so that your kids are always on their toes and they're

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eager to come learn at scripture study.

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So I'm going to walk you through the three basic ideas first and give you an idea

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of the supplies you might need and then we'll go through each one individually so

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that you can break down how these might work for your family at home or maybe

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the kids that you teach in your class.

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I promise they can be adapted in a whole bunch of different ways.

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Okay, let's start with object lesson one.

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This one, I am focusing in on Enos's wrestle.

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I love that Enos teaches us that questions are good, especially

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if you go to the right sources.

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And I think that's really important for our kids to understand.

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So I'm going to teach you how you can.

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Help your kids understand how to wrestle, how they can sort out and

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seek out good information, especially using the gospel library tools.

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But I'm also going to give you a fun game that you can play to help

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them be interested in the process.

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And for that, you're going to use the printable.

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So this week we are doing a luchador style thumb wrestling tournament so

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that you can teach your kids how to find answers to gospel questions.

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So in the printable, you're going to find this awesome wrestling mat that

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your kids will put their fingers through, and then they will wrestle each other.

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But since you want it to be.

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pretty epic on its own.

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You also need these awesome luchador rings.

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So there's a whole bunch to choose from.

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The idea is that your kids will choose a luchador and they will wrestle

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each other and they'll learn how to spiritually wrestle in the process.

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I'll take you through all the steps in just a minute.

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Okay, second one.

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This one, you really don't need any specific supplies.

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You just need something that has a common thread.

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This is an analogy that helps you understand covenants.

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One of the most common messages we heard at conference was this

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invitation to get to the temple and an invitation to understand and deepen our

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covenant connection with our Savior.

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So I feel, I feel like if we can reinforce that with object lessons and tie it to

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the words we studied, especially from Enos and from Jerom and others, then I

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think you make a pretty cool connection.

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So so much for tuning in.

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This one, you don't need any specific supplies.

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I would just find something that your kids are interested in that has a

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buckle, a latch, or, you know, something that's an adjustable sizing tool on it.

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So for example, I grabbed snowshoes.

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This is something I love.

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It's something my kids have seen me strap on my feet and

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it's got these cool adjustable.

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Buckles on it.

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If your kids are into skiing, you could grab a ski with a binding on it.

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If they love horses, you could grab a saddle, anything that has an adjustable

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latch, even something like a Velcro attachment that you can adjust like

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a baseball glove would work great.

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So figure out what the kids in your classes are into or the kids in your

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family love, and then find a tool that has a buckle, a latch, or an

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attachment of some kind, and I'll teach you how to tie them together.

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Okay, third one.

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Let me put down my snowshoe.

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Okay, the third one is focused on reinforcing the words that

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we just heard in conference.

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I think one of the coolest messages you see in this week's study is this

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constant imitation to rely on the word.

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In fact, you hear in every book that you study this week an understanding

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of The prophets speaking the words of Christ and the ramifications of those

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who listen and those who don't listen.

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So I think we want to point that out and then direct our kids to the words

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of the prophets that we just heard.

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And I have a special tool to do that.

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So if you were with us six months ago, I created this little tiny conference book.

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So if you remember this, it's this really small fits in your hand.

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conference book that has QR codes that connect to each of the messages of

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the special witnesses of Jesus Christ.

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So this is not a comprehensive, all the sessions conference book.

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This is just focused in on the first presidency and the 12.

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It also has some tools inside to help you.

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Sort through those talks and figure out which ones would help you in

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lessons or in scripture study And I'll walk you through how to create it in

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just a second for this one You don't really need any special supplies.

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You just need cardstock and a little bit of glue and you'll be good to go

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this week I really loved seeing the connections between Enos's wrestle and the

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wrestle we know of from Joseph Smith They both go into kind of a woodsy wilderness

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setting, and they come out with a better understanding of how God feels about them.

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What I think is powerful is the difference between those two stories.

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With Joseph Smith, there is a bit of a wrestle, and then

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there's this pillar of light.

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And with Enos, there are many, many hours of little rays that come that

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eventually give him a certainty.

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When he hears his sins forgiven, he feels closest with God in his life.

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belief begins to be unshaken.

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But he had to wrestle for a while first.

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And I love that concept of wrestling.

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I read a talk years ago from Sherry Du that I still listen to today.

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It still helps me sort through these problems.

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It's called Engage in the Wrestle and it inspired this object lesson.

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So basically, I thought it would be fun to create a thumb wrestling tournament

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so that your kids can learn practice these skills of wrestling with questions.

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One of the most common things I hear from my YSAs or from other people

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that I love who talk to me about their questions is they believe

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they have doubts about the church.

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And I really think fundamentally, most of them just have questions and

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questions have answers, especially if you go to the right sources.

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And so I wanted to help my kids.

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Walk through that process.

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So in the process of thumb wrestling, you're going to give them, you'll cut

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out all these little luchador rings.

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I've made them so that they can size to almost any size thumb, whether

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it be an adult or a five year old.

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So you're just going to want to cut them out and then size

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them to your family members.

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Um, and then tape them in place and they're going to use that as their

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lucid or if they want you to give it a name and write that on the, and

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then they're going to battle it out.

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You'll create this simple little wrestling mat.

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I just mounted mine on a piece of cardboard from an Amazon box, so it has a

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little bit of firmness and they'll wrestle it out and you can have a tournament.

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You can set up a bracket.

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If you're in a big seminary class, you can make it entertaining.

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If your kids win the wrestling match, then you use this second piece,

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which is this championship chip.

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belt buckle that they can then put on top of their thumb ring luge, um, and they

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can have bragging rights until somebody defeats them and takes the title away.

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But my hope is that you don't just have the game of thumb

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wrestling, but you actually teach them how to spiritually wrestle.

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So that's where the other pieces of the principle come into play.

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There is this really great part of the church website.

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I think it's called answering gospel questions.

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If I remember it, there's, it's linked in the creative notes.

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It's also linked on the printable.

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So if you look on this printable on the base and also on the wrestling mat,

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you're going to see these little QR codes.

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When you scan those, they actually take you to this site.

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That's designed to help you sort through gospel questions.

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In fact, not just your gospel questions, but it also helps you know how to

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help others with their questions.

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And I really loved the like fundamental principles that they taught.

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That's what you're going to find on.

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Round one and round two.

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So the blue side, round one, walks you through their guiding principles

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for how to find answers for yourself.

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For example, things like centering your life on Jesus Christ will

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help you find answers, especially answers that come over time as you

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gradually learn the doctrine better.

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Things like being patient with yourself and with others or Recognizing

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that revelation is a process or consulting with reliable sources.

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Each of these guiding principles, when you click it on the website, it will

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actually take you to videos and little text snippets that you can study together.

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The reason I think that's important is my hope is that as you thumb wrestle, you can

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talk to your kids about what's going on.

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their questions that they might have today.

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Like, what are their struggles that they're wrestling with right now?

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What answers to prayers are they hoping for?

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What doctrinal questions do they have right now?

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And then go through the process that's on the website and walk

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through how they could seek answers.

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They're probably not going to come away from this object lesson with

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answers to their questions, but they'll have the tools where they

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can go home and Do it on their own.

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And that's my goal.

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On the second round, on the red side, you're going to see guidance for how

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to help those that you love, who have questions, because a lot of us have

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people close to us who are deciding what they believe and the guidelines

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that they have on that site help you walk through that process as well.

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I thought the videos here were really beautiful.

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Lots of different struggles, lots of different questions and little

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videos to show you how those people worked through those questions.

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So that's the idea behind this card.

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That you could kind of go through that spiritual wrestling process,

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talk it through, use the notes and the creative, use the creative notes to

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help guide you, guide the conversation.

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But I think it will help your kids feel more settled, that they know

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they have tools at their disposal.

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The same way I think, you know, Enos knew he had tools.

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Somehow he learned, probably from his parents, maybe from his uncle Nephi,

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that if he needed answers to questions, he could go to the Lord in prayer.

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Because he stayed, right?

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What's remarkable about Enos is that he stayed until he had an answer.

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He knew those tools were real and that they could work.

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And my hope is that as we help our kids walk through these same kinds

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of tools, they can know today, one day, And five years from now, and

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10 years from now, if they have questions about the gospel, where

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they can turn for good, solid answers.

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Hopefully this ridiculous wrestling match will help you pull that off.

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In addition to all these printables, I also just added these luchador masks

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so that if you're teaching a primary class or maybe even a teenager class,

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that they could print these out.

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There's a color version and a black and white version so that they

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could create these and look at them.

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Go out of class with luchador face masks and be able to teach their

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families about engaging in the wrestle.

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You can find all of that on the printables.

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One of my favorite phrases from conference was this idea of covenant confidence.

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I think it was Elder Suarez that said it, but you heard that message

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repeated over and over again.

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I especially love the visual that Elder Ben Nar gave about building on the rock.

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Remember, he talked about building our foundation and having those bars

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that go into the bedrock and how we can do that through covenants.

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I just think we want to reinforce that message as much as we can, that as we

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make covenants and keep them, as we renew them by partaking of the sacrament or.

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attending the temple.

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These are ways that we deepen those spiritual roots and there's a really

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simple way that you can talk about this with whatever your kids are interested in.

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So like I mentioned, you're going to want to grab something that has a buckle or a

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latch, even like a tie down that you would use on a truck to like steady a motorcycle

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from tipping around, anything like that, a bike rack, all those things could work.

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Find what your kids are interested in and find something that has a latch

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and a buckle and then talk about why.

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So basically, for example, if you look at this snowshoe, when I think about

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putting my foot in this for the first time, I remember the freedom it gave me.

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Like being buckled into this snowshoe gave me the ability to

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go so much farther on my hikes.

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I could go to places that I had never.

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been in the winter before because I had all this cool power that was within

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control and directly attached to my foot.

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That's kind of the idea of the analogy that you're going to talk

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to your kids about how covenants are designed to give us joy.

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They're designed to give us access to power that we wouldn't have

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otherwise, but they come with some, restrictions on purpose.

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So for example, and I walked through all these in the creative notes if you want

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to see them, but I think you want to talk about how before you can use a tool like

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this, even something like a baseball glove or a saddle for a horse, you have to take

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some time to learn how to use it properly.

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If I had just jumped into these snowshoes, but I didn't put those

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buckles on just snugly to my foot, then it wouldn't have provided

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the access to the places I wanted.

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In fact, it would have made me prone to injury.

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I think the same thing can happen with our covenants.

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There's a reason that before we make covenants with the Lord, we prepare.

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You take a temple prep class, you prepare with your family to be ready for baptism.

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All those things are important so that we can use the tool as it's

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intended to be used with the proper authority and in the proper place.

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All of that can be illustrated with your latch, whatever it is you're holding up.

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The next big thing is, I really love that all of these adjustments are

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designed to give us a very snug fit.

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I think our temple covenants are designed to be individual on purpose.

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We don't do them in a giant group.

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We make baptismal covenants one at a time.

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The covenants we make in the temple happen one at a time.

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They're individual to us.

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And our job is to like get a nice snug fit.

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They're designed to help us have the power of God close to us so

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that we can use it in his way.

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So I think you want to talk about that adjustment period where

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you're figuring out exactly how to get it to fit just on you.

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The other thing I would talk about is that it's It's designed to

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be used in a very specific way.

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So even though I have it attached firmly onto my foot, this snowshoe

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has to be used in a certain way.

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I can't jump on it like I would if I didn't have anything on my feet.

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There's certain specifics that have to be followed once I get

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that strapped onto my foot.

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And the same thing happens with covenants.

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Once we make those promises to God, we have to keep them.

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That's where you can pull in the scriptures from this week's study and

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show how when the Nephites kept their promises, kept their covenants, they were

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given the protection that they were from the Lamanites and from other, you know,

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forces that were working against them or from their own temptations and weaknesses,

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they were given some protection if they followed those boundaries.

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And then the last thing I would talk about, and there's probably many more,

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is this snowshoe, if I wear it for a couple hours, if I'm out and about.

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Every now and then I have to look down and I have to check to make

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sure I still have a snug fit.

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Sometimes that buckle can kind of come undone or something slips out and it can

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impact me if I don't keep an eye on it.

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So our job is to maintain those buckles.

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If I have a ski binding, my job is to tighten it here and there and make sure

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everything is just as it should be.

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Same thing applies with our covenants.

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I think this is why we're invited to renew those covenants, both with partaking

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sacrament, going back to the temple.

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It's a chance for us to check, to make sure everything is just as it

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should be, and make steps forward.

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So whatever your kids are into, find a way to connect that connection.

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Joy that they find in that thing and the buckle that firmly allows them

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to attach to that joy and connect it back to covenants and how they give

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us access to joy that God gives us in this life and in the life to come.

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Because Heavenly Father loves His children, He repeatedly sends them

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prophets to teach them His word.

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Because it's his word that will give them access to happiness

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and peace and protection.

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And so you see that throughout this week's study.

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In fact, I pulled out, if you look in the creative notes, you can see in

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Enos, Jerem, Omni, and the words of Mormon, different verses that reference

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prophets coming and teaching the word and how the word impacts them when

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they choose to listen to the prophet's words and apply them in their life.

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They receive protection, they receive safety, they

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receive peace, they have rest.

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And when they turn against those words, they struggle.

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And I think that's what conference is all about.

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It's this invitation from the Lord to get our hearts moving.

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pricked.

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I think it's the prophet, the apostles, the other leaders

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trying to help us reinvigorate our discipleship and do a little bit

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better in the coming six months.

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So I wanted some way to help my kids do that.

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And one of my favorite ways to do this is to use these little mini conference books.

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So you haven't seen these before.

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The first time I made them was from last fall's conference.

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Basically I designed them to be this little cheat sheet of sorts, but it

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doesn't have The full conference sessions in it, it simply has QR codes to the

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special witnesses of Jesus Christ.

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So I'm hoping this gives you a chance to testify about a special

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witness and what it is they do.

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If you go on the creative notes, you can find some links to this interview with

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Elder Bednar where he kind of walks you through this, or you can just find some

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more on the links to the church website.

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But I hope we can pay special attention to these special witnesses.

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They have a very particular job.

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They are missionaries who are out and about in the world to teach

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and testify of Jesus Christ.

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And I loved as I was searching their talks, because if you'll notice

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on the inside, There's a QR code, there's a picture, the title of the

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talk, and then I've added these tags.

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The official tags aren't on the church website yet, so I had to kind of

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create my own, but I actually like that better this year because I could add

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more than what was on there before.

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But basically I went through each talk and I tried to pull out the main themes

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to add in here, and the idea behind that is if your kids are in charge of

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a lesson, let's say they're teaching their teacher's quorum next week,

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and The lesson is all about temples.

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They could easily flip through this little book and find the

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talks that reference temples.

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If they need to talk about the plan of salvation, or they need to talk

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about covenants, you can find lots of different talks that reference that.

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Then they can scan the QR code and they can go to that talk.

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and study it.

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So it's just kind of a good tool to have on hand during scripture study, during

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your seminary classes, all those things.

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The other thing I added to this one is I put a little checklist at the bottom.

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And the idea here is that as they go through each talk, they have a chance

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to check the check boxes at the bottom.

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Once they've watched it, they can check it.

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If they've listened to it again, they can check it.

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And if they've taken a time to study it, or maybe you studied

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as a class or as a family.

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then you all check that box so that you know you've done your

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best to feast on those words.

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The order of this book is important since this is just the 15 special

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witnesses of Jesus Christ, the first presidency, and the quorum of the 12.

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Rather than putting them in session order, I decided to put them

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in the order that they appear.

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Like if you look at the chart of the quorum of the 12 and the first presidency.

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This is the order that they sit in because this is the order of their seniority.

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So obviously we have the president of the church, president Nelson first.

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I also have a quote of his that I just loved about getting to

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the temple and how nothing else compares to it on the front cover.

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And then as you flip through the book, you'll see that you

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get next the first presidency, president Oaks, president Eyring.

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Then you flip and you get.

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President Holland, and then the Quorum of the Twelve.

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The last page, of course, is Elder Kieran.

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So if you haven't assembled this, it actually prints on

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just two pieces of paper.

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The assembly process is really easy.

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It's just kind of a cool fold up technique that your kids could do as they listen to

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one of the conference talks or maybe as you testify about the power of profits.

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But I hope you'll just take a chance to Tie these together.

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Show your kids, in writing, on the Book of Mormon, how listening to

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the Prophet helps, heals, gives people access to the tools of

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salvation that Christ has created.

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And then use that to encourage our kids to get into these words.

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Not just this week, and the week after, but all the time.

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All throughout these six months, as we have a chance to study them and deepen

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our understanding, our testimonies of profits will increase, and by default, our

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testimony of the Savior increases as well.

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Since this one is a different kind of printable, I would love this one to go as

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far and wide and be as useful as possible.

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So this one, rather than being an Etsy shop, it will just be a free download.

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on my website.

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So if you go to gather.

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macmom.

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com, you might have to sign in to be a free member to download it.

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But once you do, you should be able to access it and use it in your classes or

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in your families whenever you need it.

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Week 16 is a wrap.

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We've covered insights, questions, creative.

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Hopefully now you have lots of tools at your disposal to dive into these verses.

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If you need extra help, there's one more tool available to you.

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And that's if you join us on the live Monday morning, 10 a.

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m.

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Mountain Time, you'll need to go to the site gather.

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macmom.

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com.

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That's where.

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The course is housed.

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You don't need to subscribe.

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You can just be a free member, but then you can RSVP for the live that's

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coming up on Monday and join in.

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It's a good time.

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If you want to study these chapters, chapter by chapter, rather than

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in this spark and question format, then come join us on the live.

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If you can't be there as it's recording, then you can always find it afterwards.

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It's free.

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posted on the site and you can see it anytime you see on the site a quick

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links that's you can see the lessons there and you can also watch the

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live if you're interested in that but otherwise hopefully you have lots of

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tools to help you dive into these last verses of the small plates of Nephi.

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The Doctrine and Covenants teaches us that these throw great wisdom and understanding

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you of the doctrine from these plates.

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So I think they deserve as much attention as we can possibly fit in

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this week and hopefully you can find it.

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Remember, if you're hoping for a deeper dive, you're going

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to want to open the notes.

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So the notes and the printables are only accessible to those who are subscribers to

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the course, but you can always find those.

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It's linked underneath the videos on my site.

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So if you're a subscriber, just click that link, open it up.

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Especially this week, I tried to pull as many conference talks from

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our last conference as possible.

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So you'll see a lot of links to go read a lot of goodness and refresh

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yourself on what our leaders are doing.

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just taught us.

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So hope you enjoy it.

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Just remember if you aren't interested in subscribing, you

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are totally welcome to find the printables on my Etsy shop as well.

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So things like the little luchador printable, the thumb wrestling,

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that'll be in the Etsy shop.

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Just remember that this one is free, so you won't find it on Etsy,

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but you'll find it over at gather.

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macmom.

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com.

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Just search for a mini conference book and you'll be able to download it.

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All right, you guys enjoy this week of study, and I'll see you next week as we

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head into the words of King Benjamin.