Plant This Word in Your Heart – Alma 32-35

Links to free resources for children, youth, and adults to enhance this week’s Book of Mormon Come, Follow Me reading of Alma 32-35.

Everyone

Activity – Testimony Art Show – Use this activity from the Ensign series “Family Study Fun” to help your family understand more about nourishing our testimonies.

Video – Alma and Amulek Teach About Faith in Jesus Christ – Book of Mormon Videos

Video – A Child’s Prayer – Sing along video

Video – Faith – Sing along video

Video – I Pray in Faith – Sing along video

Video – Search, Ponder, and Pray – Sing along video

Children

Activity – Alma Compared the Word to a Seed – coloring page

Activity – Learning from Mistakes – Use this activity from the Friend to help teach your children how to make things right when they’ve done something wrong.

Activity – My Faith Grows as I Nourish It – Use this activity to teach children what to do to plant and nourish the word of God in their heart.

Activity – Faith Is Like a Seed – A color-by-number activity.

Activity – Faith Is like a Seed – A simple action poem about faith. (scroll down)

Activity – Seeds of Faith – Alma taught that faith is like planting a seed. Try this experiment to watch a seed sprout.

Activity/Article – What’s on Your Mind? – This Q&A from the Friend answers the question, “I’ve never done anything really bad. Do I still need to repent?” Includes an object-lesson activity.

Activity/Article – A Lesson from Seeds” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf uses a parable to teach that if we plant and nurture gospel standards in our lives, we can receive great blessings. Includes a word search.

Activity/Article – Sharing Time: Faith in Jesus Christ – Includes instructions for making a booklet about how the word of God is like a seed.

Article – Testimony Plants – In this Friend story, Elisa learns that she can grow her testimony by doing simple things to learn about Jesus. Includes a poster to hang up.

Audio – The Zoramites and the Rameumptom – A Primary teacher and children discuss how having faith, humility, and being missionary-minded followers of Christ will create great opportunities for us to share the Gospel with others. We learn that we should not only worship our Heavenly Father on Sundays, but that we should worship him and show our belief in him every day. This episode also shares with us how every person is a child of God and that we should treat everyone with kindness and love.

Poster – Bright Idea – Print this poster about staying on the gospel path and hang it up in your house this week.

Video – The Zoramites and the Rameumptom – Book of Mormon Scripture Reader

Video – Alma Teaches About Faith and the Word of God – Book of Mormon Scripture Reader

Youth

Article – From Seed to Tree – In this New Era article, a youth shares her experience of gaining a testimony—slowly, but surely, like a seed growing—by reading the scriptures.

Article – How to Prepare for the Second Coming – In this New Era article, Dallin H. Oaks asks, “If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow … what would we do today?”

Video – The Atonement of Jesus Christ is Infinite and Eternal – (Alma 34:10–14) Russell M. Nelson teaches the infinite effects of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Youth & Adults

Article – Why Does Alma Share the Story of Moses and the Brass Serpent? – Book of Mormon Insights from the Ensign

Article – Now Is the Time to Prepare – In this general conference address, Russell M. Nelson urges us to prepare to meet God and gives us ways to do so.

Article – What Lack I Yet? – In this General Conference talk Larry R. Lawrence teaches if we are humble and teachable, the Holy Ghost will prompt us to improve and lead us home, but we need to ask the Lord for directions along the way.

Adults

Article – Partaking of the Fruit – This Ensign article offers a closer look at the context and meaning of Alma’s discourse about planting and nourishing the word.

Article – The Choice of Humility – In this Ensign article, Adrián Ochoa teaches when we humble ourselves without being compelled to be humble, we are more blessed; then as we are grateful, we do the will of the Lord and become the light of the world.

Article – Patterns of Prayer: Humility or Pride – The Zoramites mounted the Rameumptom to serve their own egos, but Alma’s humble prayer shows us how to worship Christ.

Article – Seeds of Faith: A Follower’s View of Alma 32 – BYU Religious Studies Center

Video – Discussions on the Book of Mormon: Alma 33-35 – Professors from the BYU Department of Ancient Scripture discuss the continuing efforts and teachings of Alma and Amulek among the Zoramites. BYUtv.