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?