Welcome back, everybody.

This is the creative side of week 20, where I'm going to give you three

object lessons to help highlight a few of the key teachings of Abinadi

and find creative ways to get them to apply to your kids and your classes.

I'm going to take you through a quick summary first.

And then I'll break down each one so that you can figure out how to

apply it to your kids, your classes.

If you're a teenager and you're trying to teach this to other

teenagers, I'm hoping to give you some tools to give you a kickstart.

So, let's get into the details.

Okay, first, I wanted to add on to the printable that we talked about last week.

Remember how I gave you those soda can totem poles?

I call these totem pole towers because they're designed to teach

you the story of the Book of Mosiah.

And we're going to add to it this week.

In fact, I'm giving you the whole second half of Mosiah this week.

You won't use them all this week, but the tools that you need to teach this week's

study are included in the printable.

So for this one, you just need cardstock, some tape or glue, and then also, if you

want to make it more fun and delicious, you want little tiny skinny soda cans.

You just need five more this week.

You needed 10 last week, five more this week, and you'll have enough to tell

the entire story of the book of Mosiah.

So that's coming your way.

Second one.

This one is all about keeping the commandments of God, because I think it's

really interesting to see how Abinadi's message begins at the commandments

because his message can't start in the same place that Benjamin's started in.

Benjamin's people were ready to make covenants with God and we had

already built up a level of faith.

The people that Abinadi speaks to, King Noah's court, they are not

ready and they're distorting the commandments of God and it causes

all kinds of trouble for them.

So I thought it would be really valuable for us to take a week

to study the Ten Commandments.

They are still a foundation for us to stand on in order to

increase our relationship with God.

So I'm pulling one of the games that we created for the Old Testament and

I'm revamping it for Abinadi's message.

This is called Sinai Scramble.

This week it's Abinadi's Sinai Scramble, and it's going to help you

practice the Ten Commandments and play a really fun game at the same

time, so that by the time the game is over, your kids know which commandment

has which number and what they mean.

This will help.

Third, this is an important week to talk about the godhead, because as your kids

read the verses, especially those middle chapters where the father and the son

are one and it gets kind of confusing to know what he's talking about, this is a

good week to teach about the nature of the godhead being separate and distinct

beings that have one common purpose.

And my favorite way to teach that is with a light blending activity.

So I call this the godhead trio of light.

For this one, you just need the printable.

It looks like this.

Copy paper, cardstock work great.

And then you also need three phones that have a flashlight.

You could use real flashlights too, but you would need them all to be about the

same height, which is kind of tricky.

So we use iPhone flashlights and that worked great for us.

But if you have three flashlights and the printable, you'll be all set.

Okay, that's your supplies now.

Let's get into the details.

First off, we're going to add to our story of the Book of Mosiah.

So just like last week, how I gave you these printable tools so that

you could navigate this tricky book that's full of flashbacks and journeys

and travels and different kings.

It's just, It's hard to keep it all straight, so this week I'm

adding to what we gave you last week in order to round out and

finish out the whole book of Mosiah.

Since we only cover Abinadi's chapters this week, you won't need all the

pieces this week, but I'm giving you the printable that has all the pieces

so that you have everything you need for the next three weeks all at once.

But the fundamental part of this week's printable that's different

than last week is this map.

You guys, I made this map.

a map because I searched all over the place to try and find a map that taught

all the things that I wanted to be Taught about the book of Mosiah and I couldn't

find one for the life of me So I spent like 10 hours and I don't know how

many drafts making this map The reason I did it this way is I really wanted

to color code it so my kids could tell which groups of people were going where.

I wanted it to match with the other printables that we have so that they

could use this as a storytelling tool.

So you're going to find that all on this map.

Basically, I walk you through all the different journeys, not just

of those early chapters, but of all the chapters of the Book of Mosiah.

So by the end, if you look down below, you can see that there's, you 12 steps total.

These are 12 different parts of the story of the Book of Mosiah

told in like chronological order rather than chapter order.

And by the end you see the sons of Mosiah leaving to go

on a mission to the Lamanites.

So this is like a fuller picture and I'm hoping it helps guide

your conversations since I know this is a big size for you to use.

you know, in scripture study or in seminary.

I'm also giving you this smaller one.

So this one I designed to be like a bookmark.

It's about the size that would fit in a standard quad.

And you can open it and, you know, use it whenever you're in the Book

of Mosiah and you're trying to figure out and get your bearings.

So hopefully that will help you.

I also give you the tools that you need to tell more of the story.

So just like we had last week, you're going to get several totem poles, like

you'll get Alma the first and Alma the second, you'll get the sons of Mosiah,

you'll get the wicked priests, all of those go into play in this week.

You also have two more cities to keep track of.

So I give you the waters of Mormon that you'll use just at the end of this week.

And then also Helam that becomes a really pivotal city for In the coming weeks.

So those are on there as well.

But hopefully all those tools will allow you to walk through the story.

We did this with my kids.

I combined these tools with the ones we created from last week, and they

could teach each other the whole story.

In fact, if you want to do it kind of more chapter by chapter, there's also

a storyline guide in the description.

in the printable.

Just like there was last week, it kind of walks you through and tells

you which can to move where and why.

So you'll find one of those for the second half of the Book of Mosiah as well.

Tons and tons of tools at your disposal so that hopefully this book becomes

less cumbersome and complicated and the light of it shines out.

Once they kind of get their bearings and they know where the cities are and

they know which cans stack up because these are the same family line, Then all

of a sudden, the words of these mighty prophets can kind of rise to the surface.

Otherwise, they get a little bit lost.

So I'm hoping these printable tools will help.

It's been a minute since I shared a high speed, high stakes card

game to teach the scriptures.

I think the last one we did was when we were doing that game about

Isaiah's writings in Nephi, but now we've got a new one on the table.

And this is to help your kids know and understand the Ten Commandments.

Abinadi, when he was concerned for these people, they thought

they knew the commandments.

They thought they understood, and they were way off course.

And I think the same thing can happen to us.

If we start to kind of push aside these commandments of God, or we

forget what they're for, or what they're about, we run that same risk.

So Abinadi took his time to teach these commandments one by one to

these wicked priests in the hopes of converting hearts and tongues.

Helping them build a foundation of choices.

And the same thing can apply to us.

I think we need to study and understand the Ten Commandments.

I give you some quotes in the notes if you want to have some prophets

tell you why this is important.

But for me, the best way to do it is with a game.

So this is Abinadi's Cyanide Scramble.

So I've re ramped this printable a little bit to make it more

applicable for this particular lesson.

But the game is really simple.

Essentially, what you have is a stack and a deck.

You have a deck of 60 cards if you have like four to six players.

If you have more than that, you can print more cards or break into different groups

but you want to deal out seven cards to each player and the cards are simply the

commandments so you can see like number three is orange and it says thou shalt

not take the name of the lord thy god in vain so that's number three they're going

to play these cards and race each other everybody plays at the same time basically

you're going to Make a set in your hand.

When you have two cards that match, you lay it down in front of you.

The only thing that's tricky is if somebody else also has a number three,

they can lay their card on top of your set and steal it for themselves.

So this is a game where you basically are encouraged to steal

to learn why we shouldn't steal, but it's a good one, I promise.

So you're gonna play that.

You have a minute timer.

Everybody plays at rapid fire speed for one minute, and then at the end of the

minute, you flip the top card over on all the sets that are in front of you.

You do this because now this is the time when you have to get quizzed

on what your commandments are.

So whatever sets you've collected or stolen from your neighbors, now you

can only see the number and you have to be able to tell me, based on the

number, which commandment that is.

And that's challenging, especially for our kids who haven't been studying

the Ten Commandments recently.

So if your kids struggle with that, that's why I made the game box the way I did.

So on the front you have the cute little you know, description of what the game is.

On the back you have these QR codes to two great tools that will help

you teach about the Ten Commandments.

So if you're a young woman and you're teaching others in your class, you

could watch these videos in class and then play the game together to

reinforce what you just learned.

This top one, the top QR code, takes you to a short like you.

minute and a half video teaching you about what the commandments

of God are given for, that they're evidence of God's love for us, and

they help guide us towards Him.

The second one is maybe three minutes long, and it's the one that

teaches you all the hand signals for the different ten commandments.

If you remember in the Old Testament, we did this one together.

I still love this.

Violet and I worked on these Today, like, we practiced our hand signals

so that we could remember what number one is, and what number five is,

and what commandment number ten is.

By practicing those hand signals, your class will get it, and then by

playing the game, they'll reinforce it.

So that by the end of the class, not only do they know their commandments

better, but they've had fun learning them.

all as a group.

I just think that's what scripture study is supposed to feel like,

so hopefully this printable game will help you pull that off.

Last one.

This is one of my favorites.

I think, especially this week, where you hear Abinadi's teachings about

Jesus Christ, and it sounds a little bit confusing because he calls him the

Father and the Son, and where our kids would associate Father with Heavenly

Father, that can get a bit murky.

So I'm hoping this object lesson helps you articulate how they are different and

separate beings with one common purpose.

And there's a way to do that.

with light.

So this is one of my favorite ways to teach it.

It was inspired by Hannah's science fair project, probably 10 years ago,

we did this combination of light.

And I remember projecting light up onto the wall and seeing how if you

had red light and blue light and green light, and you let them all

combine, they form this warm light.

White.

And that's what reminds me of the godhead.

So if you go on the printable, you'll see that there's these

overlapping circles, and you want to just print out on copy paper.

At the bottom, down here, you're going to see some colored blocks.

Those are designed to give you a way to cover your phone flashlight.

So for us, you just want to cut out those paper blocks if you If your paper

is really thin you could fold those in half so that you have a little more color

to work with and lay it on top of your flashlight or your phone's flashlight.

You just want to make sure that you're blocking all white light.

Sometimes if your flashlights are bigger or if you have a case

on some white light escapes.

So if that's the case you want to cut as big of a blue piece or

red piece or green piece as you need to cover that whole area.

The best thing I found, in fact, if you have a chance, if you made the lightsabers

with us back in the New Testament, we bought these little gels to go on top

of our lightsabers to make them vibrant.

You can use those same gels to do this object lesson and they are so much

brighter with the gels than they are with the paper, but both of them can work.

So this is basically how you set it up.

You're going to make sure that the three phone flashlights are set to the highest

brightness, and then you lay them face down on a table or a bed, somewhere that

you can make the room really, really dark.

You want as little ambient light as you can possibly get.

And then you hit the lights and you put this paper right on top.

You want to make it so that the red light shines right through that

text, God the Father, the green light shines right through the Holy

Ghost, and the blue light shines right through the text, Jesus Christ.

And you're going to talk to your kids about how these colors

look so separate and distinct.

There's no mixing up red and green.

They are so opposite from each other.

They're so different, but they combine in a beautiful way.

So that's when you lift up the paper.

As you elevate that paper above the surface of the phones and those

flashlights, that light fuses together and it becomes this soft white light.

You can no longer see blue or red or green, you simply see white.

And that to me is the nature of the Godhead.

It is, it is something where they are separate and

distinct but they work as one.

And they create light for us to use and navigate by.

In fact, if you look on the printable itself, one of the ways I updated

it this time around is I added scriptures from the Book of Mormon to

each of these circles that reinforce this idea of the Godhead being one.

And then there's a QR code at the bottom, and this QR code takes you

to a video that the church created.

It's about six minutes, so you could easily teach it in a young women's

lesson or a Sunday school class, and you could watch it together

and then demonstrate the activity.

Let them raise up that paper and see how things turn white and let them

lower it back down and see how those lights are distinct and different.

Do it a few times.

In fact, one of my favorite things to do is if you wave your hand under

the paper or another object under the paper, it looks white, but the shadow

that it makes when you put a hand between the paper and the flashlights

creates different colored shadows.

So you can still see that there are different lights forming

this beautiful white light.

It's just a cool, very visual, very memorable object lesson to help

your kids understand the Godhead.

Help them understand it in a clear way so that they can testify and

teach about why we believe the Godhead is separate and distinct,

but unified in heart and in purpose.

Thank you so much for being here you guys.

That's it for week 20.

Okay.

I hope you enjoy your study There's so much goodness in Abinadi's words

and that you have fun with the object lessons play games together Do cool

science experiments and help your kids connect to their scriptures I think you

have lots of tools at your disposal If you're part of the course remember you

can find the printables right underneath the creative videos If you're not a

subscriber to the course, you can also find these printables over in my Etsy

shop So check them out Follow the links underneath this video and you can find

everything you need, but hopefully you'll have lots of tools to teach well.

Um, if you want to join me for more of the insights, to understand a

little bit more about what happens in a more chapter by chapter approach,

you can come find me on the live.

So if you go to gather.

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com, that's where you find the whole course and a chance to subscribe, but also

you can join for free and chat with us.

on the live, share some thoughts about these verses, get new ideas and insights

about how to apply the object lessons.

It's just a great way to interact both with me and with other

people that are in the course.

So whether you're a subscriber or not, you can find that over at gather.

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All right, you guys, I think that's it for this week.

Enjoy Abinadi and then come on back next week as we head into the waters of Mormon.