Sunday, September 11, 2011

Chocolate Scriptures

Today's Young Women lesson was on scripture study (Manual 3 Lesson 30.)  As usual, I have other creative bloggers and pinners to thank for making lesson time more palatable.  What's more palatable than chocolate?!?  NOTHING

Armed with this:


I made these:


Then these:


Fortunately, I thought I was teaching the entire Young Women, but I only taught the Laurels, which meant there were 20 of these little gems left over for my family to eat in 1/100th of the time it took me to make them.

As usual, I cried pretty much throughout the whole lesson.  The crying had nothing to do with the burnt fingers from using the hot glue gun to secure the chocolates to the cardstock.  It had more to do with the lesson itself.  Instead of using the case studies from the manual where examples are given and the girls are supposed to come up with scriptures that apply, I felt prompted to share personal journal entries about scripture study.

It was a good opportunity for me to read back through my journal and see specific examples, ones I hadn't thought of in a long time, of where the scriptures had made a difference to me.  I found examples of times when I found answers to specific questions and times when I didn't necessarily find answers but found peace just from reading.  I found examples of insights and understandings that "suddenly occured" to me.  I found the entry where I wrote that I wanted to be better about scripture study because I wanted to come to know my Savior.  I wrote that I no longer wanted to read simply out of obedience and simply to be an example to my kids.  I wanted to get to the point where I truly desired to read and could truly know my Savior.  It was about nine months after that entry where I found this:

"I have never felt as much excitement about the scriptures as I do right now.  I have never had the genuine desire to learn that I have now.  Before, reading was about obedience.  Now, it is about really wanting to read and to KNOW.  I truly love the scriptures."

I had all but forgotten about the first entry where I expressed the desire for my scripture study to be something more.  I just wanted to share with the girls real-life examples of what the scriptures can do in a person's life. I think it worked.

30 comments:

  1. what an awesome handout! I'll have to stash that one away for future use :)
    Thanks for sharing you fantastic idea.

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  2. These are beautiful! Do you happen to have a template for the scripture? How did you set it up in Word? I need to make about 60 of them & it would sure save time if I could get that.

    Thanks!

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  3. I would love to have the temmplate you used, too -- I need to make 25 of them tonight, and it would take much less time if I had a document that already had the right size worked out!

    Will you e-mail it to me? jenmartnz@msn.com
    Thanks!

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  4. Did anyone get the template emailed to them? May I use it as well... I have to do this by tonight too.. womens retreat :) Thank you!

    J.lukis@cox.net

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    1. Could you please send me the template ? Thank You

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  5. I love this idea and would love to use this for my lesson on Sunday. Do you happen to have a template for the scripture part? If so can I have you please email it to me?

    Thanks,
    Erica

    erica.grover@gmail.com

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  6. Please send me the template. Thank you so much!

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  7. jenifer@chelsearestoration.net

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  8. Can you please email me the template? simondsk@hotmail.com
    Great Idea!! Thanks for sharing ;)

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  9. Can you please email me the template? simondsk@hotmail.com
    Great Idea!! Thanks for sharing ;)

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  10. I would love the template in word please I could use for my lesson
    Thanks
    Lesleymc12@gmail.com

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  11. Do you still have the template you could send me, I did this a couple of years ago and lost mine :/ I would really appreciate it, the girls LOVED this!!
    Thanks - Dawn
    dawnstraub@hotmail.com

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  12. Can I have the template please? mikejanellebennett@gmail.com

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  13. Please, could you also email the template to me? @les.shane@gmail.com
    Thank you - really love this!

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  14. could i also get the template.

    janice0422@att.net

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  15. I would love the template as well. gretchenrohdeyoung@gmail.com

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  16. could you send me the template I would love to make these for our Primary Party lisadbrantley@gmail.com

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  17. I would love the template, also. I want to make a bunch of these for our retreat. Thank you!
    alandcarolf@hotmail.com

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  18. Love this idea! I'm teaching about the Book of Mormon in a few weeks, could I have the template as well? Thank you! Kellyabunn@gmail.com

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  19. Such a cute handout. You posted this 5 years ago and we are still asking for a template. kimcloudperry@yahoo.com.

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  20. Can I please get the template! thanks so much!! cassjones1295@gmail.com

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  21. i would love to get the template also to this poem is it still available mail to jdsturg@gmail.com thank you

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  22. would love this template thanks

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  23. Just came across this. Has anyone received the template? If so, would someone be able/willing to forward it to me?

    Thanks......

    email sbsecretary@aol.com

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  24. Did anyone got the template that can email it to me please. jatnielyair@yahoo.com

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  25. I have just seen this post and noticed that the author hasn't been able to respond to requests for a template. I have created two WORD documents; one containing 12 small scriptures to glue onto the little candies, and the other one has two of the Elder Asay quotes per page. I am unsure as to sizing, but if anyone would like, I would be happy to share them. (I don't know how to add them to this blog posting, so I presume it would be via email?)

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  26. What a great handout! I would love to use it for fhe. Could you please send me both word documents. Thank you so much. tina@rtrhodes.com

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  27. please send to me also jdsturg@gmail.com
    thank you

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