The Great Plan of Happiness Alma 39-42

Links to free resources for children, youth, and adults to enhance the Book of Mormon Come, Follow Me reading of Alma 39-42.

Everyone

Activity – Heavenly Father Prepared a Way for Me to Return to Him – An explanation of the plan of salvation with ideas for talking about it with your family and an activity.

Activity – Lead Me, Guide Me – A game you can play to learn about Heavenly Father’s love and some special things He has given you to help you find your way back home.

Activity – Saving You is the Plan – He is the Way – Read through the roles of Jesus Christ as a family. Use the posters, each showing a different person with the Savior, to remind you of God’s love.

• Savior with Woman version 1
• Savior with Woman version 2
• Savior with Man version 1
• Savior with Man version 2
• Savior with Grandfather
• Savior with Grandmother
• Savior with Young Woman
• Savior with Little Boy

Video for Alma 41 – Wickedness Never was Happiness – Richard G. Scott bears testimony of how obedience leads to happiness.

Children

Activity for Alma 40 – I Can Always Pray – Use this activity page from the Friend to teach your children how prayer can help them find answers.

Activity for Alma 40 – Testimony Toolbox – Cut out the tools from this activity page to teach your children the many tools they can use to find answers to their questions. (From the Friend.)

Article for Alma 40 – The Priesthood and Me – Eleven-year-old Jordan feels confused about why boys hold the priesthood and girls don’t. Find out how writing in her journal helps her find answers. (From the Friend.)

Article for Alma 40 – Mia’s Testimony – In this Friend story, Dad helps Mia realize she has a testimony.

Activity/Article for Alma 40-41 – Back to Your Heavenly Home – Dieter F. Uchtdorf tells story of our pre-mortal home. Includes two activities.

Article for Alma 41 – How Can the Gospel Help Me Be Happy? – In this message from the Friend, David A. Bednar shares how true happiness can be found.

Activity for Alma 41 – Following Jesus Makes Me Happy – coloring page

Activity for Alma 41 – Choose the Right Way page 1 and page 2 – Help Elliot make right choices that will make him happy with this Friend activity. As your child completes this maze, you can discuss how choosing the right helps us be happy, even when we have difficulties. How does serving and making right choices help our problems seem less significant?

Article to go with previous activity for Alma 41 – The story on pages 32–33 shows that choosing the right and enduring well help us find happiness, even when our problems are not immediately solved.

Article – Jesus Loves Me – A simple telling about Jesus and His place in Heavenly Father’s plan.

Activity – I Know God’s Plan – Create a plan of happiness viewer. Includes a short lesson.

Activity – The Plan of Happiness – Color, cut, glue, and staple to make a booklet about the plan of salvation. 

Youth

Article for Alma 40 – Dealing with Difficult Questions: Three Principles That Can Help – This New Era article provides examples that can help you figure out how to get your own questions answered.

Article for Alma 40 – Four Tools for Answering Questions – In this New Era article, a young woman shares tips that helped her receive answers when she had questions.

Article for Alma 41 – 42 – How is God both merciful and just? – Book of Mormon Insights from the Ensign

Article for Alma 41 – Steps to Happiness – In this New Era article, D. Todd Christofferson teaches us how obedience helps guide us to happiness.

Article – Seeing Yourself in the Great Plan of Happiness – In this Ensign article, Brian K. Taylor teaches we see God’s eternal vision unfold for us as we come to understand our true identity, purpose, and destiny.

Article – Talking to Your Parents about Sex – Yes, it can be awkward. But your parents are a better source than the internet or your friends. From the August 2020 New Era.

Youth and Adults

The following articles are from a special section of the August 2020 Ensign about having a positive view of sexuality, sexual intimacy, and the law of chastity.

Article – Learning to See Sexuality as a Sacred Gift – We can learn to see sexuality as a sacred gift, an essential part of our God-given nature.

Article – Fostering a Positive Perspective of Sexuality – God has blessed us with divine, appropriate sexual feelings for a reason. As we better understand those feelings as members of the Church, we will find greater peace and hope.

Article – How I Learned to Understand God’s View of Sexuality – A single adult, Emma, shares how growing up, she didn’t know how to handle sexual feelings but learning truths about sexuality and chastity changed my life for the better.

Article – Living the Law of Chastity in a World Full of Gray Areas – Navigating any seemingly gray areas of the law of chastity requires making a conscious choice to respect and regard others as divine beings.

Article – Bridling Your Passions: How to Align Sexual Thoughts and Feelings with the Lord’s Expectations – Getting rid of appropriate sexual feelings isn’t what Heavenly Father wants for us. He wants us to learn to manage them so they bring us joy rather than misery.

Article – Conversations about Intimacy and Sex That Can Prepare You for Marriage – How we talk about sexual intimacy matters. Here are some suggestions for talking about this sacred subject.

Article – My Experience Living the Law of Chastity with Same-Sex Attraction – A single adult, Jacob, shares that sometimes the law of chastity can seem difficult to understand and reconcile, but he knows that Heavenly Father has a plan for his life. He just needs to follow His will.

Article – How the Savior’s Healing Power Applies to Repenting from Sexual Sin –

Article – The World’s Way vs. the Lord’s Way: What the Media Gets Wrong about Sexual Intimacy – When it comes to sexual intimacy, we’re told by the world and media to be casual, callous, and selfish, but the Lord’s way teaches us to be committed, compassionate, and Christ-centered.

Adults

Article for Alma 40 – When Doubts and Questions Arise – This Ensign article discusses the difference between questions and doubts and describes how searching for answers in the Lord’s way can bring us closer to Him.

Article for Alma 41 – 42 – How is God both merciful and just? – Book of Mormon Insights from the Ensign

Article for Alma 41 – The Gospel Path to Happiness – In this Ensign article, Jeffrey R. Holland teaches what happiness is and the path to pursue it.

Article – Seeing Yourself in the Great Plan of Happiness – In this Ensign article, Brian K. Taylor teaches we see God’s eternal vision unfold for us as we come to understand our true identity, purpose, and destiny.

Article – For a Wise Purpose – Jeffrey R. Holland teaches from its first page onward, the Book of Mormon declares that Jesus is the Christ and the Son of the living God.

Article – The Three Most Abominable Sins – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – How to Be Reclaimed from the Fall of Adam – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – The Law of Justice and the Law of Mercy – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – A New Meaning of “Restoration”: The Book of Mormon on Life after Death – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – The State of the Soul between Death and Resurrection – BYU Religious Studies Center

Video – Discussions on the Book of Mormon: Alma 40-41 – Professors from the BYU Department of Ancient Scripture discuss Alma’s doctrinal explanation to his son Corianton concerning the resurrection of the dead and other important elements of the Plan of Salvation. BYUtv.

Video – Discussions on the Book of Mormon: Alma 42 – Professors from the BYU Department of Ancient Scripture discuss one of the great chapters of the Book of Mormon in teaching the Plan of Redemption, and, more specifically, the doctrine of Atonement. BYUtv.