Lesson 22

Lesson Title: "Repentance"

OTHER RESOURCES:

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

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will understand the principle of repentance.

PREPARATION:

1. Prepare the following nine wordstrips: "Steps to Repentance:" "Recognize wrong," "Promise not to repeat sin," "Recommit oneself," "Make restitution," "Feel true sorrow," "Allow time," "Forgive self and others," and "Receive forgiveness from the Lord."
2. Review the counsel about repentance on pages 29-30 of For the Strength of Youth.
3. Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Read the following quotation in which one of our Church leaders compares repentance to an eraser:

"God has a pencil with an eraser on it and he has promised us that he will use it if we will repent and change our ways. He has said that if we would forsake our evil and thoroughly make up our minds against it, then he would wash it out of his mind and just forget the whole thing. Of course, he expects that we will wash it out of our minds also" (Sterling W. Sill, Making the Most of Yourself [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1971], p. 93).

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Bear your testimony of the reality of Jesus' love and atoning sacrifice. Testify that righteousness is the way to happiness and that where sins have been committed, complete forgiveness is available through faith in Jesus Christ and true repentance.

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