Book of Mormon [MOSIAH 18-24] Creative Object Lessons with Maria Eckersley

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Welcome back, you guys.

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Now that we've done the sparks and the questions, it's time to get into

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my favorite part, the object lessons.

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Cause I think it's great for you to love the scriptures and to see good things in

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them, but it's even better if you can take some time to teach somebody else and help

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them get those same fires ignited that we saw pass from Abinadi to Alma to all

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All those people at the water support.

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So this is a good week to put some of these verses to the test.

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I've got three ideas to get you started.

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These are just creative kickstarts.

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Feel free to take them in whatever direction you want, but I'm hoping to

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give you some ideas to get things humming.

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So I'm gonna walk you through the supplies first, and then I'll take you

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through each one individually so that you can figure out how you might adapt

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them to your kids or your classes.

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Hey, first off.

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This one, we're going to talk about what it means to have our hearts knit.

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And one of the simplest ways I've found to teach this is just to do a

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kind of a teamwork unity challenge.

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The easiest one that seems to work every time for me, regardless of

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how many kids I'm teaching is this one called the circle sit challenge.

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To pull it off, you just need rope.

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Ideally, something that's not too scratchy so that your kids can handle

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it and it doesn't bug their hands.

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You also want something that's strong enough that if kids

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pulled on it, it won't snap.

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So, you don't want baker's twine.

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You need legit rope.

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Um, if you don't have this handy, you could also grab

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something like a wide ribbon.

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Something that won't break easily.

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Um, and you need a few feet.

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If you're doing it with a family of four or five, then you could maybe

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use like four or five feet of rope.

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If you're trying to do it with a whole seminary class or a big young

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women's group, you might need more, but I'll walk you through how to

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pull that off in just a second.

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Okay, second one.

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This is to talk about how the Lord tries and tests our patience and our faith.

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I think one of the most compelling parts of this week's story is when

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those who are trying to do right, those who've made covenants with God and are

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keeping his commandments and are Doing things right are also tested and tried

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and experienced bondage and adversity.

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It's just relatable, right?

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Every one of us can understand what that's like.

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So I'm hoping to help our kids get that.

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And the simplest way I found to teach why the Lord often allows adversity to happen,

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especially to those who are doing good, is with a really some simple challenge.

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I call it the chip clip challenge.

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Because basically the only supply you need is a chip clip like this.

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If you don't have these on hand, you also could use a clothespin.

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It works really similarly.

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And then you need a cord of some kind.

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If you wanted to, you could make a few lengths of the same rope that

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you used for the first, um, object lesson and grab a few lengths of that.

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Either one.

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You're just trying to get some kind of long, dangly, Weight that

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you could use and I'll teach you how to put these together in just

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a second Okay, third one and this is the most involved of all three.

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It's something that I wanted to help my kids understand I really love how

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the people in the waters of Mormon when they leave that place of solitude They

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experience hostility from the Lamanites.

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Remember they're in Lamanites attack and there's this epic moment where they

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turn to Alma because they're afraid and he helps them remember their Redeemer.

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And in that moment, they hush their own fears.

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Remember that great talk from Elder Bednar?

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We're going to get into all of that in just a second, but I wanted some way to

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capture the idea of, how can I choose?

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How much I fear.

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How can I control my emotions in those moments when I am afraid?

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Whether you have little kids or teenagers, they all experience these moments of panic

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and fear, and we want them to figure out how they can turn in to conquer those.

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And there's a really cool way to do it.

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Kind of ridiculous, but Also really effective.

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So, I call these fear hushers, you guys.

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When my kids were little, I made them these very furry, almost like a journal,

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books that they would keep under their pillow to conquer their fears.

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I've made a miniature version for you so that if you have primary kids and a class,

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you could make them and, They would, I'm telling you, they will never forget them.

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They'll use them.

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They're awesome.

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If you don't have little kids to teach and you need something that's

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more applicable to teenagers, I also created this version of a fear husher.

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Looks like a little composition book and inside it has all kinds of guidance

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for how to hush your own fears, but I'll walk you through all that in a second.

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In just a second.

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For this one, you just need the printable and a piece of copy paper or cardstock.

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For this one, you need a mini composition book.

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I bought mine at the dollar store, they came in a three pack.

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But I give you some links in the notes to Amazon if that's easier for you.

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You also want, obviously, some fur.

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You can find it at any craft store.

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Ideally, some eyes, I, I put one on the back as well, but you want

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some of these cool like cat eyes.

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If you can find them, if not googly eyes work great.

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And then just some white craft foam so that you can create

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the very sharp, scary teeth.

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And then of course the printable that's on the inside.

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So if you get those supplies on hand, you'll be all set to get into the details.

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So let's go there next.

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One of my favorite parts of this week's study was reading

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about how hearts become knit.

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I just think the same guidance that Alma gave the people at the Waters of

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Mormon, we here at Conference and in our Sunday school lessons and in our

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Young Men's lessons, I think those same messages are offered to us because

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we are making the same covenants, especially at baptism where we Promise

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that we will take his name upon us, which means we're going to ease each

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other's burdens and lift where we can.

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This object lesson will help your kids see how working together allows you to

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do things you couldn't do on your own.

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It's one of the incredible blessings of being a part of his covenant,

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that you are Sharing the load and that others share your burdens so

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that everybody can ascend together.

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So to pull this off, you just need to make a loop of rope, like we talked

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about, maybe four or five feet of rope, and tie a really strong knot,

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because it's going to get a lot of pressure pulling on those two ends.

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So make your rope first.

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If you've got a big class, you might want to make a bigger rope,

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or divide them into two groups and let them do this simultaneously.

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But essentially, you're going to have all your people sit down on the ground,

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and have their legs straight out in front of them with their feet touching.

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They're going to all be facing each other in the circle.

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They can kind of creep their knees up a little bit, but they have to

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keep their feet touching together.

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And then the challenge is simply that they need to stand up, but they

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can't use their hands on the ground and they can't separate their feet.

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Those are the two rules.

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And if you put your kids to the test and give them this challenge,

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I promise you, they will struggle.

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They might flip over on their stomach.

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They'll do all kinds of crazy things, but they will not be able to stand upright

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without either separating their feet or using their hands to support them.

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Then you want to show them another way that they can pull this off.

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If they work together, that's when you take that looped rope and you

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put it right next to their feet.

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So ideally you have your group close enough that however big your loop of

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rope is that all their feet can kind of come up against it and then you

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want each person to grab that rope with two hands that's in front of them and

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everybody pulls back at the same time.

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As they pull back it creates tension on the rope and then everybody can Stan.

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Sometimes it doesn't work on the first time or the second time.

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They need some practice.

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I think the same way that Alma's people probably needed practice too.

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Remember all of them are converts.

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They're all coming from a much different life back in Noah's city.

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And so I'm sure they made some mistakes along the way and they

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didn't do things perfectly, but they they came with good hearts.

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Hoping to do their best, and that's what your kids are

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going to demonstrate as well.

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As they practice, and they create that perfect amount of tension, and they help

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each other, they'll find that if they all pull back at the same time, they can

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actually stand up and Arise all together.

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You can even do it backwards.

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You can all sit down again and then stand back up again.

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And you can talk about the blessings of this kind of unity.

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That when our Father in Heaven asks us to be covenant children, where we make these

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covenants and we keep them, it's because he wants everyone's loads to be lighter.

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It's a way that all of our burdens can be lifted simultaneously

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when we do what he's asked.

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We show up for our callings, we do our ministering, we become stronger

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disciples so we can testify to each other.

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All those things help lift the burdens of the people around

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us and help all of us ascend.

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One of the things that's cool about this week's study is you see that

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doing things well, choosing the right, keeping the commandments, all

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those things, they don't give you immunity from hard things happening.

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Both the people of Limhi who were struggling for a season and the people

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of Alma who made covenants with God and were keeping them, both of them

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experienced bondage and adversity and both of them need the help

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of the Savior to get deliverance.

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And I think there's power in that.

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We all need the Savior and it's actually what helps our hearts

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become knit because we're all beggars in this and we need each other.

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But I'm hoping to help my kids understand.

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Some of the reasons why the Lord allows hard things to happen, especially

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when we're on the right track.

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And I think there's a lot of good ones.

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I lay out a bunch of them in the notes.

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Like, He sometimes wants us to be strengthened.

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He wants us to grow and stretch ourselves.

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Sometimes I think it's a refining process.

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He's trying to you know, purge out some of the impurities in our character or in our,

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uh, habits and refinement needs to happen.

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Sometimes I think it's a test of faith.

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I think we see that a little bit with the children that are Alma's people.

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They, there is a test of their faith.

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They've learned in the waters of Mormon in this insulated environment, and

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now they have to put it to the test when there's taskmasters and bondage.

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And do they really believe there's a test of faith there?

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I also think sometimes he allows adversities to come because it's an

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opportunity for miracles to happen.

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He wanted these people to understand that he is the source of deliverance so

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that they would trust him for greater deliverance from their sin and from death.

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Like, if they can get this understanding, then it can apply in much bigger ways.

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I think that's one of the reasons adversities tend to hit us even

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when we're doing a good job.

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I also think it's simply to fulfill his purposes.

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He can see and understand things that I can't, and so oftentimes I think these

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stumbling blocks come in my way in order to get me to turn or to slow down or to

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do something differently, almost like those rumble strips on the freeway.

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I think that's his intent.

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So you can go through all those as you go to teach your lesson and then

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demonstrate it in a really simple way.

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You're just going to give your kids a challenge, and that is that they can

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take a clothespin or a chip clip like this and try to balance it on one finger.

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So we usually used our middle finger because it was one that

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you could kind of balance.

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You can see right now I can kind of balance this chip clip without too

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much trouble, but it's a little wobbly.

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And then you're going to give them an obstacle course of some kind.

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So if you're in your house, you might have them rotate around the

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table and go up and down the stairs.

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If you're in a classroom at church, you might have them step over a chair and then

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go out of the hallway and come back in.

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Something that makes it hard for them to keep their balance of this chip clip.

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And inevitably.

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The chip clip will fall because it's lightweight.

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They don't have anything to grip it with.

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They can't use their other fingers or their other hand.

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They really can't use anything other than that one finger that it's resting on.

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And then you take a second to talk about how hard it is to accomplish this task.

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And then you're going to give them the tools to accomplish it.

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And that means adding weight to their load.

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So this is when you take.

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Like for me, I have this HDMI cord and you clip it into the chip clip.

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So have it go the long way across the chip clip.

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So the two ends dangle down below it.

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Again, you could use a rope or a couple lengths of ribbon.

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Anything that adds a little bit of weight to this chip clip and dangles down and

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then give them the very same challenge.

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Ask them to balance it on their finger and walk around that same obstacle

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course and notice the difference.

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Because there is weight on this chip clip, it is so much easier to balance.

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I can even, like, toss it in the air and catch it again, and I

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could handle keeping the balance.

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Like, that weight is what provides stability.

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And I think you see that oftentimes when it comes to dealing with adversity.

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Even when you're making good choices, what he wants to do is

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give you stability and grounding.

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A lot of this object lesson was inspired by that incredible

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video from Elder Bednar.

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I've linked to it in the notes.

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It's that one that talks about the truck and how it can't get out of

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the snow, and then when he finally puts weight in the truck, all those

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logs in the back, he has the traction he needs get out of the snow pile.

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That's kind of the same idea here is that your kids can understand

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how this might apply to them.

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They can think about the adversities in their life or maybe their physical

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disabilities or their mental struggles or whatever it is that they're wrestling

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with and see how that's something that actually gives them weight.

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Yes, it's hard, and it seems like it will, uh, burdened them to some degree,

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but it also gives them stability and tethers them to God in a way that is

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powerful and that He wants for them.

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So hopefully this object lesson helps you teach it.

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I love scripture stories that empower my kids to do more on their own.

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And this one about people hushing their own fears is awesome to me.

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Because this is Alma's invitation where they have these Lamanites attacking

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and they're afraid in the moment.

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And he reminds them like, no, you have a connection to the Savior.

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Remember your Redeemer.

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And in the moment, it's not that Alma hushed their fears, it's

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they hushed their own fears.

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their remembrance of the promises of the Savior.

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calmed their hearts and gave them the courage to move forward.

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And I think that's why we want our kids to have a connection to the Savior as well.

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So that in these moments of fear and struggle, They can feel peace.

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And this ridiculous object lesson is designed to help them do just that.

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So, like I mentioned with my older three, we made these journals that they

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would keep under their pillows at night.

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The idea being that if they had ways to calm their own fears in

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the night, when they woke up with a nightmare or something, they

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could turn to the book first.

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And then if that didn't work, they could come and track me down.

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But I had lots of kids you guys, and lots of nightmares to wrestle with.

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So this was one of my strategies to try and hack my way through

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this and let them feel peace.

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Hush their own fears so inside their little monster snatchers is what we

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called them at the time But inside your fear hushers, you're gonna have things

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that they would put inside are like things that would calm them in the night

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So when I talk to Violet about this, I'm like, what would you put in here?

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That would help calm your fears if you woke up in the night afraid and

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you couldn't get to me or you needed a second to try and handle things

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yourself, what would you put inside?

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So she has things like primary song lyrics on one page.

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We also talked about some scripture stories that might help her.

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So you can flip through the book and see that she has like the parting of the red

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sea that helps her remember that Jesus does save from even scary situations

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and that all these little miracle stories that she's added to her book.

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Even scriptures that she loves or just really cute little characters

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like this adorable pig that she drew.

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The idea being that if she's afraid in the night, she can

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learn to hush her own fears.

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In fact, on the printable in this one, I give you some tips from Elder Rednar

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about how to hush your own fears.

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Those are on the front side.

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On the back cover, the printable has all these verses that I

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love about conquering fear.

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Some are specifically about fear.

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Some are scripture stories about conquering fear, like David and Goliath

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and others that you'll find in there.

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But hopefully between the two and what they choose to put inside,

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they can learn that this is something they have within them.

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They don't need an outside person to calm them.

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They can actually hush their own fears, especially if they rely on

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something as strong and solid as their connection to their Savior.

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The same Savior who helped Moses in that moment with the Red Sea.

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The same Savior who helped Esther in that frightening moment when

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she had to stand before the king.

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That same savior and promises to help us in our moments of fear too.

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So I would take some time if you have little kids to talk through their common

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fears and help them fill out their books.

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Maybe they'll add to them over the course of time, but the printable or

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the creation of it is pretty simple.

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I walk you through it in the book.

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videos in the printable.

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I'll give you a play by play on the printable itself for how to make it.

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It's actually really easy, comes together in like 10 minutes

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or so, but totally worth it.

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If you have older kids and the, you know, teeth ridden little furry

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journal is not for them, then you want to use the other printable.

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This is the cute little composition book.

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I created this so that those who are a little older have

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some tools at their disposal.

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The fears of teenagers are, I think, a lot scarier.

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You know, fear of being left out, fear of being rejected, fear of being ridiculed,

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fear of your beliefs not being true.

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Like those are legitimate fears that are scary and hard to deal with.

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So I filled this little book with things I thought might help a teenager.

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So there's two versions.

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There's a version that they can fill out themselves and there's a

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version that's kind of pre populated.

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So with scriptures that they can read, the second page inside says

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songs that they can listen to, hymns.

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Church songs that they can listen to.

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There's always spaces at the bottom so that they could add some of

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their favorites if they wanted.

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I also have great talks on fear that they could listen to.

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So if they're in a moment of panic or they're in their car and they're

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struggling to get up the courage to do what they know they need to do, they

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can flip to this book and say, okay, I'm just going to listen to Elder Rednar

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for a second and see if that helps, or I'm going to turn to the scripture.

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and see what the spirit teaches me.

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I also have some tips on things you can remember, and then the very

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last one is things I can control and things I cannot control.

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Because sometimes fears are based around things you simply can't control,

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and even being able to understand that makes a huge difference.

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So like I mentioned, there's this one.

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It actually prints on one piece of paper with a really cool folding

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technique, so that you can fold it.

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Simplify this down.

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If you needed to print it for a whole seminary class or a young

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women's group, you could make them for your youth activity and then

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talk through Conquering Fears.

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Talk through Elder Bednar's guidance on how to hush your own fears and

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then use the prompts in this little book to help your kids accomplish it.

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I hope it makes a difference.

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This is a hard world to be a part of, but if you know how to hush your

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own fears, I think we can make it.

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I think we can empower our kids to accomplish so much more if they

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know how to do this on their own.

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Okay, you guys.

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Hopefully you feel very equipped, right?

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We got one gone through the insights.

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There's sparks to consider, questions to talk over, and hopefully some

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object lessons to help you find ways to teach these cool principles to your

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kids and to your classes and have a really, really good week of study.

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Remember, if you're interested in accessing the notes and the printables for

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the course, then you want to go to gather.

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macmom.

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com and subscribe.

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There's a monthly option or an annual option.

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Either of those can work.

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If a subscription isn't for you and you still need access to the printables.

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You can also sign up as a free member on the course and then find

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the printables over in my Etsy shop.

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So if you just go down below this video on YouTube, you can access those printables

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and purchase whatever you might need.

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Okay.

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I think that's it for this week.

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You guys, if you want more help or more insights on these chapters,

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or you're interested in more chapter by chapter approach, you

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should come join me on the live.

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So I do one of those every Monday morning at 10 a.

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m.

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Usually it lasts an hour and I kind of walk through chapter by chapter and then

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take you through the object lessons.

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It's a little bit more interactive.

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It's, you know, I see your face and you see mine.

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It's a way for us to kind of chat and get to know each other and hopefully answer

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any questions you might have about this week's study or frankly any week's study.

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So if you're interested, join over at gather.

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mecmom.

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com and then RSVP for the live that's coming up on Monday.

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Otherwise, I think you'll have everything you need.

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Okay, enjoy this week of study, you guys, and I'll see you on Monday.