YOUTH ACTIVITY. “I STAND ALL AMAZED at the love Jesus offers me” sacrament thought card. Youth can memorize 3 Nephi 11:14 and write their feelings about the Savior. Verse 14 witnesses the nail prints on His side, hands, and feet to know He is the God of Israel and the whole earth, slain for the sins of the world.
YOUTH GOALS &
LESSON LIFESAVER ACTIVITY
SPIRITUAL
Youth GOAL
“I STAND ALL AMAZED”
Ponder the sacrament and feelings about my Savior.
Goal Ideas
Youth can use this “I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me” sacrament thought card activity to learn the actions that help them grow closer to the Savior. They can memorize 3 Nephi 11:14 scripture on the front of the card and write their feelings and thoughts about Jesus Christ, their Savior on the back. Ask them to prepare to take the sacrament by keeping God’s commandments and record their feelings in a journal.
Inspiration
President Boyd K. Packer has testified, “That is the promise of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Atonement: … that at the end of [our lives, we] can go through the veil having repented of [our] sins and having been washed clean through the blood of Christ.” – “The Atonement,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2012, 77.
“How can we have the Spirit of the Lord to guide our choices so that we will remain “unspotted from the world” (D&C 59:9) and on the safe path through mortality? We need to qualify for the cleansing power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We do this by keeping His commandment to come to Him with a broken heart and a contrite spirit and in that wonderful weekly meeting partake of the emblems of the sacrament and make the covenants that qualify us for the precious promise that we will always have His Spirit to be with us (see D&C 20:77).” – Sacrament Meeting and the Sacrament, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
“I Stand All Amazed” Sacrament Thought Card
GREAT FOR Youth Goals, COME FOLLOW ME, Sunday School, Scripture Study, Family Night
ACTIVITY:
• Read D&C 20:75 and Mosiah 5:7 to learn of actions that help you grow closer to the Savior.
• Write feelings and thoughts of Jesus Christ on the back of the thought card.
• Card reads “I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me.” Book of Mormon Scripture: 3 Nephi 11:14 “Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.”
TO MAKE Print/color and cut out sacrament thought card. Fold in half and glue back to back.
THOUGHT TREAT: “Carrot”er Crunch. Give each youth a large carrot with the following note attached. “Each time you munch on this carrot, think of the positive “carrot”er traits you have and those you wish to grow in your spiritual garden to grow closer to the Savior.” Or, let them crunch on baby carrots as they talk about “carrot”er traits (character traits) that help them grow closer to the Savior.
GROUP ACTIVITIES
For Church or Family
REMEMBER ME – LAST SUPPER:
1. Create a setting like the Last Supper. Have eleven youth sit around a large table representing the apostles and one representing Jesus.
2. Ask them to role-play what went on at the Last Supper before Jesus was crucified.
3. Explain that Jesus wanted His disciples and us to always remember Him and to keep His commandments.
4. Review the sacrament prayers found in the Book of Mormon (3 Nephi 18:7, 11).
5. Have someone who is particularly appreciative of the sacrament express his or her feelings about this sacred ordinance.
6. Select a conference talk on the sacrament and use unleavened bread (or pita bread) to show what bread was like in the Savior’s day.
7. Have everyone bring their scriptures to have a Sacrament Scripture Chase. Divide into two teams and race to find scriptures on the following. Announce subject matter first, then the scripture.
SACRAMENT SACRED-SCRIPTURE SEARCH:
Pondering these scriptures will help youth prepare for partaking of the sacrament each and every week. These could be placed on cards with blank fill in the words.
• Priesthood ordinance (3 Nephi 18:15)
• The sacrament is given to the Nephites after Christ’s resurrection (3 Nephi 18:1-12)
• Importance of taking the sacrament each Sunday in sacrament meeting (D&C 20:75)
• A reminder of baptismal promises (D&C 20:37, Mosiah 18:6-10)
• Helps us think of Jesus and find peace (D&C 19:23-24)
• Reminds us that Jesus took our sins upon Him (Hebrews 9:28; 13:12, Mosiah 3:5-8)
• Jesus is the gate through which we enter heaven (John 14:6 2 Nephi 9:41)
• Jesus suffered and gave His life for us so that we might have remission of our sins (John 19:16-20, Mosiah 4:1-2, Alma 4:14-15, 2 Nephi 2:6-9)
Source YW 2.26
USE FOR YOUNG WOMEN Come Follow Me LESSONS:
JANUARY LESSON 3 “Why is Jesus Christ important in my life?”
Also DOWNLOAD Song Visuals for “I Stand All Amazed” (Hymns p. 193)
Song Visuals are ideal to teach children this song in Primary or family home evening. It would be ideal for youth to learn and teach this song using visuals.
