Preparing and Teaching Life Preparation Lessons: Preparing a Lesson
S&I Annual Training Broadcast 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Tomorrow’s lesson is going to be lesson 185: “Building Emotional Strength in the Lord.” I’m going to find the purpose of this Life Preparation lesson here. It is right here. “This lesson can help students feel confident that the Savior will support them in building emotional resilience.” I’m going to make note of that. Okay. Now I’m going to find the bolded truth in the lesson.
It looks like it’s right here. “Jesus Christ can comfort and strengthen us in our emotional challenges because He has experienced them too.” I’m going to note that one as well. I want to see where in the scriptures and words of the prophets we can identify this truth. It looks like Isaiah 53:3–5 is mentioned. I’m just going to open up to that.
And I’m going to look for this truth in these scriptures. I’m going to clearly mark that—“hath borne our sorrows and griefs, who is afflicted, wounded for our transgressions.” And then it also looks like there is a quote from Elder Soares. I’m going to mark the points that demonstrate this truth as well. “The Savior’s bowels are filled with mercy because he personally experienced and took upon himself in the flesh the pain of our weaknesses and infirmities.”
And next, I’m going to find where each and every student can demonstrate this. It looks like at the very end it says that we’re going to have them close their eyes and visualize the resurrected Savior with them during their hardship. I’m going to make note of that as well.