Lesson 18

Lesson Title: "Temple Marriage"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 3 at lds.org.

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will understand that her decision to marry in the temple has eternal consequences.

PREPARATION:

1. Prepare five wordstrips containing the questions to be asked in the second section of the lesson.
2. For each class member, make a small triangle with God, Husband, and Wife written on the three corners, and Sacred Triangle written across the front.
3. Note: As you teach this lesson, remember that some young women belong to families who are not living in ways that qualify them to be together in the celestial kingdom. Be sensitive to this. Help the young women realize that they can influence their present families for good and create eternal families of their own someday.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Use the introduction in the lesson.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Object lesson:
Give each young woman a small triangle with God written on one point, Husband on another, Wife on the third, and the words Sacred Triangle across the front. Have each one write on the back: “I will prepare now to be worthy of participating in the sacred triangle of eternal marriage.”