Marriage
between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan
(by Amy) |
I would start out by saying something like ...
Children this year we've been talking about a special plan
that we chose to follow - if you know the name of it can you put your hand on
your heart.
Then talk a little bit about the plan of salvation or plan of
happiness.
- Ask the boys and girls what would happen if I wanted to
make a cake -
so I beat butter and sugar together and added the eggs and flour and all the
ingredients and greased the cake pans and filled them with the dough and I
sat them on the counter and never baked them. Would I get to enjoy the yummy
cake?
- Would all of my other hard work be a waste of time?
- Would I get to share the delicious cake with anybody
else? No, No, No.
To fulfill the plan of happiness each man needs to find a
good woman and get married hopefully in the temple. To live our lives and
never share them with a husband or wife would be like making a cake and never
baking it. We wouldn't get to experience all of the good things that life
should bring and we wouldn't be keeping all of the promises and commandments
that we promised Heavenly Father we would do.
Starting with the creation of the world and with Adam and
Eve marriage between a man and a woman has been a commandment and an essential
part of life.
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Okay here are some ideas for fun things you could do with
this -
Ask a few couples - maybe a couple that's been married the
longest in your ward and a newlywed couple to come share the blessings that
marriage has brought to their life. Maybe they could share how their spouse
helped them through school, or raising the children, or how when they would
come home each night from work the peace and joy the felt coming home to their
lovely wife and happy children.
Another possibilty for the senior primary - write a list of
men from the bible and church history and a list of their spouses (not in the
same order) if you only did biblical ones you could put the scripture
references down the middle - challenge the kids to look up the scripture and
then pick a child to connect the man to the scripture and then the right wife
to the scripture.
Another possibility would be to write down things a daddy
does and things a mommy usually does on hearts - hide the hearts around the
room - have the kids bring the hearts up and discuss how a daddy and mommy
sometimes do the same kinds of things to bless our homes but sometimes there
are things only a dad can do or only a mom can do that help our home to be
happy.
Another fun thing you could do on this day - is have the
kids make their parents a valentine thanking them for being great moms and
dads and thank them for giving them the blessing of good parents like Nephi.
Of course if your ward has a lot of children from single parents you would
adapt this as you feel prompted to do.
Amy