Will continue lessons in June!

going to start up the lessons again in june. need a little extra time right now to get the rest of the books and such to everyone. plus my computer totally crashed this week :( there were several weeks that i did two lessons so if you were doing one a week we should still have some left. also, decided that this summer im going to do a book of mormon lesson for my blog with the boys, but also get a bible lesson in as well. thanks for your patience!

King Benjamin

King Benjamin was a very good king who liked to work hard, take care of his family and he loved God. At this time, there were many wicked people. They liked to lie and fight. King Benjamin did a good job of taking care of these bad people and making the land a peaceful place.
King Benjamin had three sons: Mosiah (the oldest), Helorum and Helaman. He taught his sons about God and how they are to praise Him and give Him thanks in all things. His sons did these things and they were good too. King Benjamin taught them to read their scriptures and bore his testimony to them.
King Benjamin was getting very old and decided to make Mosiah the new king when he died. Being a king mean taking lots of responsibility. Mosiah was going to be responsible for 4 things: the brass plates, the plates of Nephi, the sword of Laban and the liahona. King Benjamin asked all the people in the land to come and hear what he had to say. Lots of people came and set up their tents facing the temple so they could hear what the King had to say. King Benjamin told the people that it is good to work hard and keep the commandments. If they did then God would bless them. He also told the people that Mosiah would be their  next king.
Shortly after King Benjamin was done talking, he died. Mosiah was then the new king and he was a good king too.

Made a job chart. King Benjamin said it was good for us to work hard!

Lunch was "pizza towers". When King Benjamin talked to his people, he stood on a tower so they could hear him.

We made/wore King Benjamin hats while eating our towers.

We also colored the picture from the handouts but forgot to take the picture.

I had two sock puppets and told the boys to tell me to STOP when they were fighting. I told a story about the two "puppets" and when they got mad at each other they yelled STOP!

Went thru the ten commandments again.

We made a "Work Book". It had a few pages in it for the boys to cut out magazine clips of people working or things that needed worked on.

Questions:

1. Who was King Benjamins sons?

2. Why do you think Mosiah was chosen to be king?

3. What are some jobs you can do to work hard?

4. Have you ever heard a testimony? What was it about?

Let's meet Enos

After getting settled in the Promised Land, the children that Laman, Lemuel, Sam, Nephi, Jacob and Joseph had in the wilderness and in the promised land grew up. One of them was named Enos. Jacob was his father. Jacob taught Enos lots of things about how God wanted us to live. Jacob told Enos that people are happiest when they do things that please God.
Enos decided that he wanted to be rightous and follow God's word. One day he went into the forest to hunt beasts for food. While there, he knelt to pray. Enos prayed so long for God to forgive him and show him how to be good that the prayer lasted all day and all night. Enos heard a voice that told him his sins were forgiven because God knew he had faith. This made Enos very happy.
Next, Enos prayed for the Nephites. The Nephites were the family of Nephi and they were very good. They loved God and kept his commandments. Then he prayed for the Lamanites. The Lamanites were the family of Laman (and Lemuel). They were very naughty and did very bad things and didn't like God. The Nephites had tried to help the Lamanites to be good, but the Lamanites wanted to stay wicked. They wore little clothing, shaved their heads and liked to fight and tried to kill the Nephites.

Pictures colored from the handouts.

What is Enos thinking about???

Pretending to be Lamanites. I was trying to get them to be "mean",  but they still look cute! The vest is just a grocery bag (that I now know I cut wrong so it looks a little funny).

I had two tiles so I wrote the ten commandments on them for each of the boys. I read thru them but I think they were still a little difficult to understand as written. We just talked about how to be good and bad.

The discussion about the Indians and the Lamanites was still pretty fuzzy for them to understand the sameness. It was hard to get them to understand that they Lamanites were bad, but that the "indians" today aren't. Trying to get them to understand and still function in the world today was difficult at their age. Trying to carefully piece the parts together is diffucult with all the extras (like the movie Pocahontis and being taught things in school).

We talked about things that we can pray for. Family, church, school, friends and to be good came up.

Another craft you can do is gather some small twigs, glue on green cotton (or craft) balls so make little trees for a forest.

Questions:

1. Was Enos a Nephite or a Lamanite?

2. Why do you think the Lamanites wanted to stay naughty?

3. Who do you think talked to Enos in the forest?

4. Do you ever pray for people that are naughty?