Lesson 10

Lesson Title: "The Priesthood: A Great Blessing" (page 38)

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 2 at lds.org.

  OBJECTIVE:

  Each young woman will understand more fully what the priesthood is and the blessings she can enjoy through its power.

  PREPARATION:

  1. Pictures 6, John the Baptist Conferring the Aaronic Priesthood (62013); 7, Blessing the Sacrament (62343); and 8, A Father's Blessing. If you wish, also use other pictures showing the priesthood in use.
  2. Obtain a pencil and paper for each young woman.
  3. Review the following scriptures: D&C 76:22-24; D&C 88:45-47; Moses 1:33-35; Mark 5:22-43.
  4. Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish.

  LESSON:

  Lesson 10 at lds.org

  CONCLUSION:

  Distribute paper and pencils to the young women. Ask them to write ways in which they can prepare themselves to receive the blessings of the priesthood. Encourage each to prepare herself in those ways she has identified.

  HANDOUT:

  "Blessings I receive from the priesthood" list. Print out on pretty cardstock and cut into four handouts. Give this to the girls when you talk about these things in the lesson so they can follow along.

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  MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA:

  ** Get the video from your ward library and show "The Blessings of the Priesthood," from Family Home Evening Video Supplement 2 (53277).
  **Have Popcorn and visit after it's over about what they have learned.