Lesson 33

Lesson Title: "Each Person is Divine and Eternal"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 3 at lds.org. With Ensign, New Era, and Friend references

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will appreciate the divine and eternal nature of each person.

PREPARATION:

1. Pictures 13 and 14, Young Women of Different Nationalities, located at the end of the manual.
2. Obtain several gloves of various styles and materials.
3. Prepare a handout listing each of the following scripture references and the question for each young woman.
   • 1 Samuel 16:7
   • Matthew 25:40
   • Romans 12:10
   • Doctrine and Covenants D&C 18:10
   Knowing the worth of souls, would you want to make even one person feel that he or she was not of worth?
4. Invite a mother and baby to visit the class. Ask the mother to take a few minutes and express her feelings about the great value of her child and the blessing of raising one of Heavenly Father’s children.
5. Assign a class member to relate the story in the third section of the lesson.
6. Assign young women to present any stories, scriptures, or quotations you wish.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Show the picture of young women from many lands. Ask class members to identify each person’s nationality. The answers are: picture 1, Australia; picture 2, Philippines; picture 3, Japan; picture 4, United States.

Object lesson:
Hold up several gloves. Point out that gloves come in various sizes, colors, fabrics, and from many parts of the world. Each glove has one major purpose—to cover the hand. The glove without the hand lacks life and purpose. Explain that the hand can be compared to the human spirit.
• If the hand represents a person’s spirit, what would the glove represent? Put on the various gloves and ask:
• What connection do you see between the picture of the young women and the gloves?
Explain that the mortal body, represented by the glove, covers a spirit child of God, represented by the hand. The outside coverings, our physical bodies, are as different as gloves, but inside we are all eternal spirit children of our Heavenly Father, created in his image. (See Boyd K. Packer, Teach Ye Diligently [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1975], pp. 230-37.)

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Review the question written on the young women’s slips of paper. Explain that as the young women reach out to those around them, they can perform miracles in other people’s lives and bring happiness into their own lives.

Lesson Applications:
1. Ask each young woman to offer friendship and love to someone who needs a friend. Follow up on this suggestion during the next few weeks.
2. If there is an investigator or less-active member in the class, consider having class members take a special interest in her so that she will feel more loved and valued.

HANDOUT:

Print either of these handouts off on a heavy paper, cut apart and give one to young woman.