Lesson 32

Lesson Title: "Personal Purity through Self-discipline"

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 how self-discipline helps her live a virtuous life.

PREPARATION:

1. Make five wordstrips to use following the story about Ann (see page 141).
2. Review the counsel about language and about sexual purity in For the Strength of Youth (pages 22-23 and 26-28).
3. Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Tell the story found at the beginning of the lesson.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Point out that in each of the experiences discussed in this lesson, there was a struggle to exert self-discipline, but each person was able to do it. Each time we discipline ourselves, we strengthen our capacity to live a virtuous life. Conclude the lesson with the following statement by President Brigham Young, which reaffirms that we can learn to master ourselves. Ask the young women to listen for the promise we are given if we exert our self-control.

"When you are overtaken in a fault, or commit an overt act unthinkingly; when you are full of evil passion, and wish to yield to it, then stop and let the spirit, which God has put into your tabernacles, take the lead. If you do that, I will promise that you will overcome all evil, and obtain eternal lives" (in Journal of Discourses, 2:256; italics added).

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