Lesson 6

UNIT ONE- choice 1

#1 I think the best way for me to “escape the corruption in this world,” is to shut off the TV, put down the filthy magazines and focus on me and my family. Sometimes I find myself consumed with the lives of celebrates and politicians that that’s all I can talk about and so therefore I forget to talk about the blessings that I saw that day or I miss valuable missionary opportunities. I commit to putting those things away and to instead focus on the life of my Savior.

• ·         In order to complete this assignment, I did all the readings and cross-referenced
• ·         I decided to choose this assignment because I KNOW that I need more help in escaping the world
• ·         My favorite part of this assignment was the reading in the institute manual
• ·         To make this assignment better I would have assigned another assignment that went along with this one to follow up on us

UNIT TWO- choice 1

#1 To “multiply mercy, peace and love” I feel that you must be selfless. To show mercy, peace, and love you cannot be thinking about yourself, instead you can only be thinking of others and how you can help them in anyway. By not thinking of yourself you can multiply and even triple these attributes and if you do, by the end of the day you will go to sleep happier and more fulfilled knowing that you made a difference in the world.

To “contend for the faith” you must be striving for bigger, better and greater amounts of faith. By just sitting and hoping for a stronger testimony or knowledge of our Savior, we are actually doing the exact opposite of what Jude is telling us that we need to do.  He is telling us to strive, push against the opposition and fight for the faith!

• ·         In order to complete this assignment, I did all the readings, cross-referenced, and looked on dictionary.com for the word contend
• ·         I decided to do this assignment because these verses in Jude stuck out to me and I wanted to understand them better
• ·         My favorite part of this assignment was describing the scripture. By having to restate what Jude was saying, I intern learned a TON
• ·         To make this assignment better I would have liked to learn more about Jude

Hebrews- 1 Peter

Unit 1 Choice 2 #1

Name	Verse	How They Demonstrated Faith	Blessings They Received
Abel	4	Offered a “more excellent sacrifice”	A witness from God that he was righteous
Enoch	5	“he had this testimony, that he pleased God”	He was translated that he should not see death
Noah	7	Prepared an ark and became in heir of righteousness	Warned of God of things not seen as yet
Abraham	8	He obeyed and went out, not knowing whither he went	Received an inheritance
Sara	11	She judged him faithful who had promised	Received strength to conceive seed
Abraham	17	Offered up Isaac as a sacrifice	He received him in a figure
Jacob	21	Blessed both the sons of Joseph	worshiped
Rehab	31	Perished not with those that believed not	Received peace
Moses	25,26	Chose to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season	Received the reproach of Christ

·         To do this assignment I created a table, read through chapter 11 and found the given information

·         I decided to do this assignment because I recently gave a talk about faith and I used some of the scriptures used in this chapter and so I wanted to learn more about other verses

·         The best part of this assignment was the different questions that I had to find

·         To make this assignment better I would have us write what we would think that the persons blessing should be since some of the people in the chapter didn’t have information about what blessings that they received

Unit 2 Choice3 # 2

Symptoms of being in the world (James 4:1-4)	Prescription for being out of the world (James 4: 7-12)
1.       Ye lust 2.       Ye kill 3.       Ye fight and war 4.       Ye ask wrongly	1.       Submit yourselves to God 2.       Draw nigh to God 3.       Cleanse and Purify yourselves 4.       Humble Yourselves 5.       Speak not evil one with another

·         To do this assignment I created a table, read through chapter 11 and found the given information

·         I decided to do this assignment because I need help overcoming the world

·         The best part of this assignment was reading how to overcome the world

·         To make the assignment better, I would have us write how we would apply some of these principles to our own lives in order to overcome the world

Modesty and The Priesthood

Unit 1 Choice 2            

#1 Paul teaches us in 1 Tim 2:9-10 that women need to dress modestly which includes showing self-control and reverence with what we wear and not giving into having flashy and expensive clothing.

D&C 61:18, 36 give us greater insight that both men and women need not to even come close to immodesty “lest we be caught in snares.” Immodesty can steal away our virtue!

Moses 6:9, Mosiah 2:37, Alma 41:2 = 3 reasons why our bodies could be considered sacred

1.       We are created in God’s own image

2.       We must keep our bodies clean so the Lord may visit us, “for he dwelleth not in unholy temples”

3.       We must take care of our bodies because they are ours for eternity. We will one day be resurrected with these same bodies

Knowing that our bodies are sacred helps me to remember that my body is beautiful and one of a kind. I am reminded that I don’t need to alter my body in any way because God created it and He only makes perfect things. By remembering that, I am able to dress modestly because I am not looking for others approval and reactions toward my body to validate that I am beautiful

Alma 1:32 talks about wearing costly apparel

To better apply these principal in my life I can make the choice now to always dress modestly and then at the end of the day to reflect upon how I felt about myself throughout that day as I dressed modestly.

·         In order to complete this assignment I read all of the readings and then pondered about what they said

• ·         I decided to do this assignment because recently I just watched a video about modesty that was from a nonmember which really moved me and so I wanted to learn more
• ·         The best thing about this assignment was all of the scripture references
• ·         This assignment could be improved by giving us scenarios and having us try to figure out how to solve them by still dressing modestly

Unit 2 Choice 1

#1 Hebrews 5:4, Numbers 27:18.23, D&C 41:11, articles of faith 1:5

In order for men to receive the priesthood authority of God must have a pure heart and then be called of God as one who is worthy of receiving his authority. Then he is given God’s authority by one who already holds the authority, who then lays his hands upon the man’s head to give him the priesthood.

We can know if a man truly has the authority of God by the Holy Ghost. We can pray and ask our Heavenly Father if certain men should be our leaders or the prophecy that they preached was true or not. “By the power of the Holy Ghost, we may know the truth of all things.”

·         In order to complete this assignment I read all of the readings and then pondered about what they said

• ·         I decided to do this assignment to be able to learn more about the order of the priesthood
• ·         The best thing about this assignment was all of the scripture references
• ·         This assignment could be improved be asking s more in depth questions about the priesthood