Serve
ice cream sundaes with all of the toppings-hot fudge, fruit sauces, whipped cream,
cherries, and nuts. Have other toppings such as pickles, mustard, tomatoes, salt,
butter, onion, etc. also available.
Lead a discussion similar to this:
Were you surprised at some of the things I put out for you to put on your ice cream
sundaes? What did you put on your sundaes? Why didn't you leave your sundae as just
plain ice cream? Is that really a sundae? Why didn't you put onions on your
sundae? Don't you like onion? What about the tomato? Don't you like
tomatoes? Is salt good? Why didn't you put that on your sundae?
Sundaes are like day-of-the-week Sundays. Lots of things are available to do with
our Sundays. We can leave it plain like the plain ice cream- we can choose not to do
much with it at all. What do you think that means? (Sleeping all day, sitting
around being lazy) If we leave it plain, is that really a Sunday? Is that
really keeping the Sabbath day?
There are something that we want to put on our Sundays and something's we don't.
What are some things that are like the toppings you chose? (Reading scriptures, feeling
the Spirit, gong to Church, visiting with family members, going to Church meetings,
baptisms, or firesides, preparing talks, watching Church videos, listening to good music,
writing letters, playing uplifting music on an instrument, reading good books or Church
magazines, doing missionary work, etc..)
What are some things that are like the toppings that you didn't choose_things that are
GOOD, but don't "TASTE GOOD" on Sundays? (Listening to popular music that
is clean, shopping, going to good movies, paying the bills, getting gas in the car,
watching mindless TV, going out to eat, going to ball games, playing sports, going to
work-unless absolutely necessary, etc.-these are examples. Families and individual
youths should make their own decisions about what is appropriate and inappropriate on
Sundays. Let the Holy Ghost be your guide.)
Does that mean that sports are bad or that we shouldn't go shopping? No. Not
at all. But, there is a time and a place for sports, just like there is
a time and a place for pickles or tomatoes. On a hamburger, they're
great, but they taste awful on ice cream.
So next Sunday, think about what you're putting on your Sunday-mustard or chocolate
sauce.
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