Lesson Title: "Agency"
OTHER RESOURCES:
OBJECTIVE:
Each young woman will understand that with agency comes responsibility.
PREPARATION:
- Be prepared to create the chalkboard illustration shown in the lesson.
- Assign young women to present any stories, scriptures, or quotations you wish.
ATTENTION GETTER:
Read the following quotation to the young women:
“Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God’s greatest gift to man” (David O. McKay, in Conference Report, Apr. 1950, p. 32).
• What is the right or power to direct one’s life called? (Agency.)
Finish reading the quotation:
“Agency is the impelling source of the soul’s progress. It is the purpose of the Lord that man become like him. In order for man to achieve this it was necessary for the Creator first to make him free” (David O. McKay, in Conference Report, Apr. 1950, p. 32).
• Why is agency essential to each person’s progress?
LESSON:
Lesson 24 at lds.org
CONCLUSION:
Testimony
Tell the young women that they can resolve right now to keep the commandments. This use of their agency will lead them back to their Father in Heaven.
Bear your testimony about the gift of agency and the importance of using it properly. Remind the young women that they already successfully exercised their agency when they made the choice to come to earth and gain a body.
MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA:
1. Plan an evening of searching the scriptures to see how people in the scriptures used their agency.
Be sure and get some scripture stickers from our "products" section -- it would make a wonderful addition to this night.
2. Ask each young woman to pause this week when making a decision and analyze whether she is using faith in the Lord Jesus Christ or whether she is following the precepts of men.
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