Lesson 11

Lesson Title: "Growing and Maturing in Self-reliance, Part 1"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 1 at lds.org. With Ensign, New Era, and Friend references

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will recognize that she is growing in independence and will seek to become more self-reliant.

PREPARATION:

1. Pictures 6, 7, 8, and 9, A Baby Girl, A Young Woman, A Bride and Groom, and A Young Mother with Her Child. All are located at the end of the manual.
2. Bring pencils for the class members.
3. Make a copy of the quiz on the following page for each girl, or prepare to read it aloud to them.
4. Optional: Make a copy of the poem, "Coming Out," for each girl to take home.
5. Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Display the pictures of girls at various ages. Ask the young women to consider the pictures of the girls. Use questions to encourage a discussion of the increasing abilities that come to us with maturity.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Explain that when we become more self-reliant, we please our Heavenly Father. He is anxious for us to learn to do many things on our own. He is not pleased with those who only do things when they are told. (See D&C 58:27-29.) Point out that as we gradually become less dependent on others, we need to train ourselves to hear the clear direction, the "clarion call" of the Lord. We need to learn to govern ourselves by his principles. Our Father in Heaven, who anxiously awaits our growth, will also give us the strength to accomplish it.

HANDOUT:

This handout contains the poem in the lesson that is to be used for the handout. Copy it onto pretty paper, laminate and give to the YW.

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