February 19, 2015- Covenants->Thinking Forward

Weekly Training Meeting 

February 19, 2015

To Complete Assignment:  Email Lisanne how your understanding of the directionality of covenants has changed for your personal understanding and one way you will implements what you have learned in the classroom in Revelation Through Church attendance

Announcements:

• VC Sisters will be here next week!!! Read the email that was sent out to come come help!
• In the summer we will be getting a new English Area- Zone 42 will be leaving.. we also need a few teachers from our area to go. Is there anyone who would like to/be interested in transferring to the new area?
• Flipped classrooms are only starting when Lisanne says to! You’ll know when this happens. 
• Email/text Lisanne if you would want to work evening shift in Spring/Summer
• IF you are leaving before April 28 make sure you have your classroom taken care of
• Area Ultimate Frisbee- February 28th at 11:00am.. Look for an email!!

Accountability: pamphlet usage and flipped classroom thoughts and ideas

Lisanne’s confession: I’m good at what is in front of me at the time.. when it’s gone I don’t think of if any more. When we focus on prayer my prayers are awesome.. but when we don’t focus on it then things slide back to normal.

How can we expand our grasp?

Is it a problem or not?

Habit forming and faith promoting- Faith is NOT Habit

we do things to build habits but it doesn’t build our faith… that doesn’t mean that they aren’t faith promoting

Are your habits faith promoting?

We can’t trick ourselves into thinking our habits are building our faith if they are only habits.

• We need to have a purpose when doing these things. How/why was it easier on the mission. Because we had a purpose. What is your purpose now? Don’t lose sight of it.
• Have I come closer to Christ each day by the way I am living?

Activity Focus: Covenants- in helping us creating faith promoting habits

Try to understand the directionality of faith gaining covenants

directionality- covenants that help our past, our present, our future

Use a piece of paper to write/draw/organize the directionality of our covenants

Study:

• pg. 63-65 PMG
• D&C 20:77, 79
• Mosiah 4:6-7
• Words used in confirmation
• Redeeming vs. Enabling power of atonement
• The Missionary Purpose

What is the directionality of covenants?

Past?

Present?

Future?

Why is directionality important?

What direction does God view our covenants?

What are you learning?

• Our covenants change out past… our future is determined by our covenanted past. Not the past we necessarily remember.
• This activity helped visualize how this is one eternal round. The covenants that we make not help us to move forward… in a spiral upwards.
• It’s a circle
• God, us and covenants are like merging plates.. it’s where the magic happens
• 2 Nephi 31- covenants give us something to work towards, something to stretch to, it also helps us to see the growth in our own progression
• Think about covenants as people.. what effect do my covenants have on others
• The water cycle… the sun makes it possible. It’s not just a cycle it’s a refinement process. The water here has never left, only been refined and renewed. Covenants are seen as a cycle but we are becoming cleaner and cleaner as we go. 

In your blue book go to pg 34- Rev Through Church Attendance

Watch German reflecting on his experience at church 

Practice: How would you respond to help German think forward. Practice. 

Wherefore what?

• I need to go study my family history.. 
• without covenants we couldn’t access the atonement then the future and the past would all be the same- covenants give us a future different than our past
• Be more engaged
• It’s not just about renewing our baptism.. it’s about being WILLING 

Invitation: 

Follow what the Holy Ghost is telling you about your covenants