For this week’s Come Follow Me Lesson, focus on the Christmas story. We have provided 12 Nativity Pieces you can use in several ways. Use one of our ideas or come up with your own.
Put the nativity pieces on popsicle sticks, magnets, or transfer paper for felt and let the children use them to tell the story of Christmas.
Use the nativity pieces with names on them. Punch a hole in the top and tie string around it to make a name tag. Assign everyone a character to play and act out the Christmas story as a family.
On the back of the nativity pieces write a Christmas song (suggestions can be found on the lesson summary page). Let each person choose a piece one at a time, sing the song, and let that person add the character to the nativity.
Use the Scripture Story Guide to study about the Christmas story in the scriptures.
Let each person make a Christmas Ornament. Discuss what you’ve learned throughout the year from the Book of Mormon.
We’ve also included a Christmas Coloring Page.
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Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, but he found that once they were in the wilderness, it wasn’t so easy to take Egypt out of the Israelites. Even with the many miracles and signs the people had witnessed, they still wanted to return to a life of slavery with every hardship they encountered. If the Israelites were to be the Lord’s chosen people, this could not be.
How did Moses prepare the Israelites to make covenants with the Lord? We read in Exodus 25 that God gave commandments to His people to help them be ready for greater covenant blessings when He would “dwell among them” (Exodus 25:8). Even though the Israelites struggled to keep these commandments, they were eventually blessed as they remained true to the Lord. We will also receive all promised blessings as we live our lives in faithfulness.
Following the 10 Plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, you would think that the Israelites were in a powerful place spiritually. They had seen incredible miracles and had sure witnesses that the Lord was with them. Yet, upon facing a shortage of food and water, the people were willing to abandon everything God had done for them and return to slavery: “Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt… when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness” (Exodus 16:3).