Vacation Planning

Memorable Monday Moments
Using the Topical Guide


For our family night activity tonight the plan was to take all of the state maps and highlight our route for the road trip we're taking later this summer. To turn it into an actual gospel lesson, before we did that we took a few minutes to search the Topical Guide and come up with a scripture that would relate to the activity. I thought you might be interested in knowing what we shared, so here you go:

Proverbs 3:6 "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

Isaiah 42:16 "I will lead them in paths that they have not known."

1 Nephi 3:9 "We took our journey in the wilderness."

Mosiah 1:18 "Mosiah went and did as his father had commanded him, ... that they might gather themselves together, to go up to the temple."

1 Nephi 16:10, 28 "He beheld a ball of curious workmanship; and it was of fine brass. And within the ball were two spindles; and the one pointed the way whither we should go into the wilderness. . . . [the pointers] did work according to the faith and diligence and heed which we did give unto them."

Over the years we've found that looking for scriptures on a particular topic and then sharing how they apply in our lives is a very effective family night lesson. However, I sure hope this particular verse that someone found tonight doesn't apply to us this summer - "For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness" (Joshua 5:6).

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