Elizabeth Learns a Lesson

Elizabeth Learns a Lesson

A girl named Elizabeth went shopping with her mom. She saw so many neat things she wanted, but her mom would not let her buy anything that day. Then she was a beautiful doll named Priscilla. She begged and begged her mom for the doll, but her mom said they didn't have the money for a doll that day.

Elizabeth had just gotten a brand new, shiny purse from her mom for her birthday. That's what gave her an idea. She waited until her mom wasn't looking and took the doll and stuffed it in her new purse.

When Elizabeth got home, she put her new doll on her bed with all her other dolls hoping no one would notice her. That night, as she got into bed, she picked up her new doll and hugged her close. But she didn't have a very good feeling inside. When her mom came in to tuck Elizabeth in, she noticed the doll and asked her how she had gotten it. Elizabeth was scared and started crying. She told her mom what she had done. Elizabeth's mom told her that she had forgotten to obey one of Heavenly Father's commandment's, "Thou shalt not steal." Elizabeth asked her mom if she would go with her when she took the doll back to the store and explain what she had done. Her mom said she would and she was proud of her for wanting to correct her wrong doing. From then on, Elizabeth never stole a thing again.

Written by Rebecca Shepherd, age 10

Charades

Divide the Primary into two groups. The groups separate and each chooses a law of the Gospel or a commandment. The groups' players will act out the law or commandment for the other side to guess. The acting is in pantomime only, which is without words. Choose from the following list or make up some of your own. Make sure they can be demonstrated with reverence.

Each side figures out exactly what its players are going to do. There are many ways of acting out each law. The more original a group is, the better. A side choosing number 1 from the list might have one player tear up bits of paper and let them fall on the floor. Another player accuses him of it by pointing to the paper and then to him. He denies it by tapping himself on the chest and shaking his head. He accuses another player by pointing to him and then to the paper.

1. Do not bear false witness.
2. Honor father and mother.
3. Keep the Sabbath Day holy.
4. Do not steal.
5. Do not covet what others have.
6. Pay your tithes and offerings.
7. Obey the Word of Wisdom.
8. Help and serve one another.
9. Teach the Gospel to others.
10. Be a peacemaker.
11. Honor the priesthood.
12. Obey the laws of the Land.