CLASSROOM PREP
Write on the board: "I will go"
Post up a drawing of a camel
Bring in a jug if it isn't too heavy.
OPENING ACTIVITY
Hand out camel fun facts to read:
OPENING DISCUSSION
Ask one of the boys if he'd let a boy classmate choose
his wife for him?
And continue on in this manner.
What kind of person would you trust to choose your wife?
Today we're going to be learning a really beautiful and
neat story of how one particular man found his wife.
This is the story of Isaac, who is Abraham's wife.
LESSON
So a few weeks ago we talked about Abraham and remember how you each had a piece of paper with scrambled up words? They were all promises made to Abraham - things the Lord promised him, covenants that they made and they were amazing promises.
Remember how we talked about how those promises can be ours?
One of the ways they can be ours is if we are worthy to enter the Lord’s temple and to keep our covenants.
This includes the covenant of marriage.
So guess what Isaac had to do one day when he grew up and got old enough to get….what? (married)
Let’s review the blessings (Genesis 22:17-18)
Abraham called upon his trusted servant, Eliezer, and put him under oath to insure by every precaution that his son married someone worthy to continue the covenant blessings the Lord had promised him and his posterity.
He makes the servant swear that the woman will not be a Canaanite but will be of their people.
The servant took 10 camels and left into the city of Nahor.
It was evening, which is the time that the women went to the wells to draw water.
The servant prayed very carefully that the Lord would bless Abraham’s wish that he would find a wife for Isaac. And he prays that something specific will happen. He asks that if he says “let down thy pitcher that I may drink” then she will say “drink and I will give thy camels drink also” and that this woman would be the one for Isaac.
Before he was done with his prayer, Rebekah came out with her pitcher ready to get water.
She went to fill up her pitcher and the servant ran to meet her and he asked for water to drink just as he said he would in his prayer.
And what do you think she said?
She also offers drink for the camels.
So how much can a camel drink? (30 gallons in a day)
There are ten camels to be watered, and she must do it with whatever jar or container she has with her. The water in this well is in a deep hole, probably reached by descending a spiral path or stairs. Rebekah “went down to the well, filler her pitcher, and came up.”
He asks to lodge there and she said yes.
The servant tells her and her family his story and that she was an answer to prayer and that she is meant for Isaac.
Her family decided they would go with what the Lord wanted and agreed.
And Rebekah said “I will go.”
She went with the servant back to where Isaac was.
After many days, the caravan approached the place where Isaac lived.
Rebekah saw someone in the fields walking toward them, it was Isaac.
When Isaac heard of Rebekah’s kindness and willingness to be of service, and her great faith, it was easily understood why he loved her.
VIDEO OF PARIS TEMPLE
How many of you have seen the inside of a temple?
Let's watch this to see how beautiful they are inside!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZ-oDCBsfU
CREATE YOUR OWN TEMPLE
Have them split into groups and hand out stacks of white printer paper, scissors, and a yellow crayon or yellow paper.
Have then create a temple on the wall with a yellow/gold Moroni and write on their temples the words that inspired them from the lesson.
TAKE HOME IDEA
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