Lesson 6

Lesson Title: "Sharing Work in the Home"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 2 at lds.org. With Ensign, New Era, and Friend references

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will seek to do her share of the work in the home.

PREPARATION:

1. *With the approval of your priesthood leader, ask an older girl or young married woman to talk for about five minutes on the subject, “The Rewards and Benefits of Learning to Work in the Home.”
2. If it is available in your area, prepare to show selected portions of “Self-reliance and Service,” from the Family Home Evening Video Supplement (53276).
3. Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish.
4. The young women in your class will learn more about sharing work if each one actively shares in the lesson presentation.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Tell the story found at the beginning of the lesson about Carolyn.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Encourage each young woman to find and do some job around her home that needs to be done, in addition to her regular assigned jobs. Ask each to report on how she and others felt when she did this extra job without being required to.

HANDOUT:

Print off the handout for each young woman on a tan or light brown paper. Attach it to a play tool that you could find at a dollar store.

MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA: