To start this Come Follow Me lesson, ask your children if they could be given anything what would it be? Let each family member take a turn to respond. Read together 3 Nephi 28. Use the 3 Nephi 28 Foldable Book. Let the children color it and put it together. Then let them retell the story using their book. Explain that Christ gave the Disciples whatever they wanted. It was spreading the gospel that brought them joy and happiness.
Read 4 Nephi 1:1-18 as a family or read it before hand and summarize the verses for your family. For younger children use the People Puppets to help discuss what true happiness is. For older children use the Guide to Happiness Activity.
As a bonus activity, read together 3 Nephi 27:1-12. Discuss as a family why it is important to be called “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” Make the crown and share one reason you are grateful to be a member of the church.
Read together 3 Nephi 27:7. Complete the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints puzzle.
Use the QR codes provided on your lesson summary page to listen to a talk by President Nelson and to watch the Book of Mormon Video.
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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).