• Ask the children, "What would happen if you put on your shoes before you put on your socks?"

Discuss the importance of doing things in the right order.

Display the letters in FAITH in the wrong order.
Explain that these letters form a word but that the letters are in the wrong order.

• Ask the children what the first principle of the gospel is.

Have them look up the answer in the Articles of Faith while the pianist plays the first two lines of "The Fourth Article of Faith" (p. 124).
Ask the children to sing just that much of the song and put the letters in the correct order to spell FAITH.
However, as Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said, "The first principle of the gospel is not 'faith.' The first principle of the gospel is 'Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ' " ("Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ," Ensign, May 1994, 98).

• Ask the children why they think faith in Jesus Christ is the first principle.

Display the following pictures:

• GAK 100 (Creation—Living Creatures);
• Primary Picture Packet 6–12 (Moses Parting the Red Sea);
• GAK 243 (Christ Walking on the Water);
• GAK 318 (The Brother of Jared Sees the Finger of the Lord);
• GAK 412 (Mary Fielding and Joseph F. Smith Crossing the Plains).

Briefly review each story and ask the children a question such as "What did Moses need before he could part the Red Sea?" Have the children respond by singing the line "first, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."

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For older children:
Consider using such scriptures as

• Matthew 14:22–33;
• Hebrews 11:29;
• 2 Nephi 1:10;
• Ether 3:9

to show the importance of faith.