What does it mean to be self-reliant?
When we are self-reliant, we use the blessings and abilities God has given us to care for ______________ and our _____________ and find solutions to our own problems. As we become self-reliant, we are also better able to serve and care for ___________.
ourselves, families, others
An Item that you and your family could do to prepare for a natural disaster (such as an earthquake or hurricane)?
food storage, emergency kits, escape plans, emergency cash
What Bro. Field said that everyone would develop if you serve them.
Love
This parable teaches us the dangers of not being spiritually prepared.
What is the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13)
The Lord wants us to become both _____________ and _____________ self-reliant.
spiritually and temporally
provides you better employment opportunities, better position to serve and bless others, puts you on a path of lifelong learning, prepares you for what is ahead, including marriage.
What is an education or skill?
One of these items could be a "spiritual disasters" or trials we might face
temptations, hard choices, unanswered questions, death of a loved one, loneliness, illness/disability, hard relationships, etc.
The game played that was to show how life's choices may come to you, and how you should make those decisions
Let's make a deal
This parable teaches us that we must use our talents to grow and serve; and that fear, idleness, and ignoring promptings will not help us become self-reliant.
What is the parable of the talents. (Matthew 25)
When we are self reliant, we can also help _____, in their time of need.
Others
This activity is important in order for you to get to know someone's interests, family, and personality; it also helps you to know if you have compatible goals and if they share the same feelings about the commandments, the Savior, the priesthood, the temple, parenting, etc.
What is Dating
Faith in Jesus Christ so powerful that we can pass the test of life.
What is spiritual self reliance?
The football player's name in the Video Bro. Field showed where Jesus had to bail them out.
"Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a ________ ________, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness."
good cause (D&C 58:26-28)
One of several ways or areas in which you should be self-reliant.
Health, Education, Employment, Food Storage, Finances, Spiritual Strength, (True to the Faith "Welfare: Becoming Self Reliant)
You can you talk about the serious choices you have ahead in your life with people. Come on, they are not that old, they love you and want the best for you.
Who are Parents, Church Leaders, or Bishop
A way in which I can develop spiritual self-reliance?
Continually: be obedient, feast upon the work of God, pray always, pay a full tithe, follow the prophet, act upon the promptings of the Holy Ghost
Instead of just praying for help, what we should do before we start something or have a choice to make. Or Things we should do before the game starts.
Study it out in our minds, or warm up, stretch, read the playbook.
"This we command you, that if any would not ______, neither should he eat."
Work (2 Thessalonians 3:10-13; Galatians 6:3-5)
If you are not self-reliant, you then become this?
Dependant
In Alice In Wonderland, The Cheshire Cat say this phrase after Alice told him she did not know where she was going.
What is "Then it doesn't matter what path you take."
The thoughts and feelings you must develop about our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that can be shared and will become the rock or foundation for everything you will do in life.
Testimony
In one of Bro. Hunt's lessons, he spoke of three degrees of choices that you should think of when trying to make a choice.
Good, Better, Best
In this Parable, a man loses all of his inheritance returns home, only to be loved by his Father.
The Prodigal Son