Living the Gospel Joyful

Contributed by Marcy R.

President Uchtdorf

Loving the Gospel Joyful

Tonight I had the kids draw themselves at the bottom of a paper. Then I had them draw a big umbrella above the picture of themselves. Finally, I had them draw things they loved "raining" down from the top of the page (they drew money and foods and music notes and soccer balls).

We listened to President Uchtdorf's 1 or 2 paragraphs about the umbrella of fear, doubt and sin keeping us from the blessings that God is constantly raining down on us. The talk is "Living the Gospel Joyful" from the women's session and it has some nice visuals of the umbrella while he speaks.

After watching, we labeled the umbrella (fear, doubt and sin) and the "rain" (blessings from God) and talked about how obeying the commandments closes the umbrella so we get the blessings. We turned our papers over and drew the umbrella closed and labeled that obeying commandments.

We also talked about what spiritual gifts we desire or that the Lord might be raining down. And we thought about some ways we could personally close the umbrella.

Here is a PDF to use.