Lesson 6

Lesson Title: "A Woman's Responsibility to Teach"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 3 at lds.org.

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will understand and fulfill her responsibility to teach.

PREPARATION:

1. Picture 4, Jesus with Children; picture 5, Jesus Teaching from a Boat; picture 6, Sermon on the Mount (62166). All are located at the back of the manual.
2. Assign class members to present the five characteristics of Christ’s teaching discussed in the second section of the lesson. Each young woman should discuss her assigned characteristic using the scripture reference provided.
3. Assign young women to present any stories, scriptures, or quotations you wish.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Scripture Discussion at the beginning of the lesson.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Explain that President Spencer W. Kimball said this about our most important teaching responsibilities:

“We remember the words of Nephi as he counseled: ‘And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ … that our children may know to what source they may look.’ (2 Nephi 25:26.) What inner strength would be in every person if he knew that the Master and His teachings were indeed his great source of guidance, his great source of correct example, his great source of help! That is our prime goal in all our teaching in the home” (“Therefore I Was Taught,” Ensign, Jan. 1982, p. 4).

Ask the young women to try to use several of Christ’s teaching methods throughout the week. You may want to have them think of situations in which they might be teaching during the week.

HANDOUT:

Give each young woman a red apple. Tell her to take it home an put it on her dresser to remind her to be a teacher this week.

MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA: