Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Ideas for ApplicationAccording to your own needs and circumstances, follow one or more of these suggestions.• If your family holds regular family prayer, family scripture study, and family home evening, prayerfully consider ways you might improve in one or more of these settings. And as they thank the Lord for one another, there is developed within the family a new appreciation, a new respect, a new affection one for another.The scripture declares: “Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things” (D&C 59:7).

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

If possible, see that each family member has access to a set of scriptures. Even children who cannot read will benefit from having their own scriptures.

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The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

When we study the scriptures, we make a concentrated attempt to understand the scriptures. Another way to “Liken the Scriptures” is to substitute our own name in the place of a pronoun in the scriptures.

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Primary 6: Old Testament

Write on the chalkboard two headings: “Why might it be hard to read the scriptures?” and “Ways to overcome these difficulties.” Ask the children why it might be hard for them to read the scriptures, and then have them suggest ways to overcome these difficulties. Explain that when a person reads regularly from the scriptures, the scriptures become more familiar and easier to understand.3.

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Young Women Manual 1

By planning well in advance, you can be sure that the young women will receive lessons in all units and that you will provide a complete, balanced curriculum.ResourcesThe Scriptures: The basic foundation for this course is the scriptures. Encourage the young women to bring their copies of the scriptures to class each week.Teach your lesson in such a manner that the scriptures will be used every week.

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 1

Encourage each young man to bring his scriptures to class.2. Who directed the preparation of these scriptures?

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3

Materials needed:a. Copies of the scriptures (each young man should bring his own).b. Pencils for marking scriptures.c. Scriptures and discussionHave the young men read and mark Helaman 14:15–19.• What do the Savior’s death and resurrection do for us?

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Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Read, ponder, and pray about the following scriptures: a. 1 Nephi 16; 17:1–3. Discuss how the selected scriptures apply to daily life.

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

Continue to encourage class members to bring their own scriptures to class each week.Note to the teacherWhen we read the scriptures, it is as though we are hearing the Lord speak directly to us (see D&C 18:35–36). Do you “delight” in the scriptures?“I Did Liken All Scriptures unto Us”Scripture discussion• Why is it important to read and study the scriptures?

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Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Note also verse 17, which describes the condition of heart we must have to truly repent.) The Scriptures Discuss the following psalms that express gratitude to the Lord for the scriptures: Psalm 19:7–11 Psalm 119 • What words did David use in Psalm 19:7–10 to describe the scriptures? The scriptures are also described as more desired than gold and sweeter than honey.) • What blessings can the scriptures bring into our lives, as recorded in Psalm 19:7–11?

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New Testament Class Member Study Guide

Edward L. Kimball [1982], 135).“I am convinced that each of us, at least some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again” (Spencer W. Kimball, “How Rare a Possession—the Scriptures! Ensign, Sept. 1976, 4).“I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can’t be gained in any way except by studying the scriptures.

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

Materials needed: A set of scriptures and a scripture marking pencil for each class member. His promptings usually come in other ways.Explain that the scriptures teach us several ways in which promptings from the Holy Ghost may come.

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The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

Born 19 July 1876 Years of Presidency: 1970–1972ObjectiveClass members will come to feel, through the example of Joseph Fielding Smith, that scripture and gospel study are important in their preparation for life.Preparation1. He was later to say:“From my earliest recollection, from the time I first could read, I have received more pleasure and greater satisfaction out of the study of the scriptures, and reading of the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and the work that has been accomplished for the salvation of men, than from anything else in all the world” (Joseph Fielding Smith, in Conferen...

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Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Prayerfully study the following scriptures: a. Ezra 1–6. If we seek to liken the scriptures to our own circumstances, ‘that it might be for our profit and learning’ (1 Nephi 19:23), a loving Father in heaven can use them to bless us in highly individual ways” (Studying the Scriptures [devotional given in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, 24 Nov. 1985

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Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Use the scriptures (see “Focusing on the Scriptures” below). 3. Focusing on the Scriptures Preparing for Gospel Doctrine class requires diligent, prayerful study of the scriptures.

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New Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Read, ponder, and pray about the following scriptures:a. John 5. How have you been blessed as you have searched the scriptures?

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Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Use the scriptures (see “Focusing on the Scriptures” below). 3. Where possible, use Latter-day Saint editions of the scriptures.

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Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

Discuss how the selected scriptures apply to daily life. How have you been blessed as you have studied the scriptures?

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Gospel Principles

Studying the Scriptures We should each study the scriptures every day. Discuss how to keep the commitment to study the scriptures each day.

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The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

How have the scriptures helped you or your family or your friends? Challenge the class members to read the scriptures every day.

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