Obedience
Contributed by:
Sandy Modesto, CA RiverbankYWPres@aol.com
I have a great one (its not my original
idea though)
You tell the group that you are well known for your chocolate chip cookies and that you'd
like to make them some. You ask one of the girls to read the recipe to you.
You make sure that the recipe calls for oil, flour, chips, eggs, soda, sugar, and salt.
Then when a girl named oil, I used car oil. When she named flour I used artificial
flowers (I cut them up with scissors and stirred enthusiastically!) For chips
(they're thinking chocolate) I used potato. For the eggs, I dumped the eggs, shells
and all. For the soda, I used a can of soda pop. For the sugar, I used sugar
cubes. For the salt, I used garlic salt (sea salt or some other unusual salt will
do.)
By this time the girls were laughing, groaning and just wondering what I was going to do
next. I then asked them if they thought my cookies would be great. Of
course not they said but I made them explain why.
Then we talked about how often we hear all the directions (or recipe) for keeping
close to the Spirit. (ie Reading the Scriptures, saying prayers, attending
church and seminary) but we really aren't following that recipe close enough. By
reading the scriptures by pondering first, by avoiding repetition in our prayers, and
really seeking for forgiveness during the Sacrament, all those and many others like them
are what help us to truly feel the Spirit. Otherwise we're going to end up
with awful cookies!
Hope this helps. My girls loved it.
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