I opened with a compass I had enlarged from a clip art collection, and asked them who had gone camping, and knew what this was... (of course they all knew what it was and what it did.)

We talked about getting lost, and how a compass helped us know the right direction.
I then told them there were people all around them that were compasses, too. Parents, brothers/sisters, grandparents, teachers, Primary leaders, bishops, our Prophet, etc.

Then I showed a picture of a shepherd. (I decided to keep it simple and not show Jesus, The Good Shepherd, just a regular shepherd from one of my Christmas files. I wish I had thought to get the shepherd figurines from my Nativity! Oh well.) We talked about shepherds and their special job. Then borrowing some text from this activity in the Friend, I told them how the
Bishop was the shepherd of our ward and how he took good care of us, watched over us, and helped us when we got in trouble.

Then we did the Bishop activity.

I *did* enlarge the bishop and his office door from the Friend, and then glued them to a bigger sheet of poster board.
I liked the idea that the primary kids had to come up and "visit the bishop" to do the activity with me.The kids loved "the little bishop" as they called him, but having the bishop in person to speak for a couple of minutes about our subject would have been wonderful too.  (I didn't do this because we had him speak just 2 days before at a Primary Activity Day) I had the little ones be helpers and come up to the bishop's door and open it. Inside were lots of little numbers on small post it notes, and they got to pick a number. Each number had a corresponding picture (this was JR primary, so I needed pictures for those that couldn't read) which we then turned over and then we talked briefly about each picture, and what the bishop did. I emphasized that the bishop watched over them, and "checked in" with them their whole life. (helping us know how to choose the right, paying tithing, baptismal interviews, priesthood interviews, repentance, missionary interviews, and temple recommend interviews.) (When we got to the temple recommend picture, I showed them mine.) They saw this watchful care through the pictures that were eventually all displayed. The bishop helps us be worthy to go to the temple/serve a mission someday. I also emphasized that he loved each and every one of them so very much, and that *he* also needed *them*.
I told the kids that he needed their prayers, and to shake his hand on Sunday, and to help out in the ward when we could.

The JR kids had hands up everywhere, which surprised me.
At this point most of the kids in there would have just given the bishop tithing.
There would be very few baptismal interviews, priesthood interviews, etc. But they all wanted to share experiences they had with the bishop, and the few 8 year olds we had in there wanted to share experiences about their baptismal interviews! I can only imagine that SR would have been very similar, especially with them having more experience with further interviews and being farther along in life than the little ones that saw this ST.

I finished off with my compass again, this time, emphasizing *the bishop* as someone who has been called of God to watch over, help you and keep you going in the right direction.