ETERNAL LIFE – Decisions: LDS Lesson Activity – Path to Eternal Life Decision Maker, ordinances, covenants, choices, Come Follow Me: Who am I, and who can I become?

YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. PICK THE (COVENANT) PATH TO ETERNAL LIFE! decision-maker mobile. Youth can decide which path they want to follow ahead of time, so GOOD choices can be made at crossroads.

Use for COME FOLLOW ME Young Women, Young Men, Family Home Evening, Primary and Home, or Activity Days

LESSON LIFESAVERS Activity
Pick the Path to Eternal Life! decision-maker

OBJECTIVE: Help youth pick the Path to Eternal Life by filling out the mobile:
~ Read the scriptures found on the mobile stones.
~ Write on the stone the reward for following each path.
~ Decide which path you want to follow and color that path.

DETAILS:
• There is a Do not make covenants path with D&C 58:30-34 (e.g., “for their reward lurketh beneath, and not from above”), and D&C 132:7 (e.g., “for all contracts that are not made unto this end have an end when men are dead”)

• There is a Make covenants but do not keep them path with D&C 1:14-15 (shall be cut off because they have strayed), and D&C 58:29 (“But he that doeth not anything until he is commanded, and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart, and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned.”)

• There is a Make a covenant and remain faithful path with Mosiah 5:7, 15 (children of Christ; hearts changed; sons and daughters of God; chapter 15 is being part of the resurrection and redemption) and D&C 54:6 (“Blessed are they who have kept the covenant and observed the commandment, for they shall obtain mercy.”)

TO MAKE print activity in color or black and white. Fold card to stand up. 

MUTUAL NIGHT ACTIVITIES

“PROMISES KEPT” SCRIPTURE SITUATIONS SEARCH: Search together in the scriptures for various situations when oaths were made and the circumstances in which they were made. Why were these oaths made? What were they? Get a feeling for the importance of keeping covenants and promises (see oaths, covenants, promise, swear, vow, and pledge in the Topical Guide).

“THE LORD NEVER BREAKS COVENANTS” OBJECT LESSON: Have two people (a young woman or young man and the bishop or adult priesthood holder) stand together with a metal or paper chain around them. Lock it (or pretend to lock it). Give the key to the youth. Say, “The adult represents the Lord and the young woman or young man is you. You have the power to break a covenant or keep it binding. The Lord will never break a covenant. Only people do.” Discuss how making and keeping covenants makes us strong and extraordinary.

THOUGHT TREAT: “Path to Heaven” Pudding. Lay parchment paper on the table for each youth. Have a variety of puddings to use as finger paints. Give each a tablespoon of each pudding on parchment paper. Have them paint their life’s path from earth to heaven. Think about choices on the path that lead them to heaven. Then eat their way to heaven.                         

   SOURCE: YW1.17

MORE DISCUSSION IDEAS:

“BE WISE” AND AVOID THE WRONG PATH
“We have our agency, and we can choose any characteristic to define us. But we need to know that when we choose to define ourselves or to present ourselves by some characteristic that is temporary or trivial in eternal terms, we de-emphasize what is most important about us, and we overemphasize what is relatively unimportant. This can lead us down the wrong path and hinder our eternal progress” (“Be Wise” [Brigham Young University–Idaho devotional, Nov. 7, 2006], byui.edu).