| Contributed by: bdurst@kscable.com I just taught this lesson last week. I used hands as my theme. I
traced my son's hand on blue paper (to represent the Bishop's hand). I had the girls write
on the hands some of his responsibilities while listening to the quote in the manual. Then
I used a quote from Pres. Hinckley (not in the manual)
"The procedure of sustaining is much more than a ritualistic raising of the hand. It
is a commitment to uphold, to support, to assist those who have been selected."
--Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
Then we defined:
Sustain = To give support or relief to
Support = To promote the interest or cause of OR to uphold or defend as valid or right
We talked about how the Bishop needs all of our support and wrote on pink hands (traced my
daughter's hand) the things we can do to support the Bishop. I was pleased with the things
they came up with.... Pray for him daily, obey his counsel, show up for interviews, call
and make your own appointment when it's your birthday if the Exec. Secty doesn't call you,
never talk badly about him, and stop others if they do. Etc.
Then I had made a poster with phrases going every-which-way, with room for different
colored hands (the smaller ones) The phrases were all HAND related. Example: We've got to
HAND it to you. You have your HANDS full. You HANDle it all well. You always lend a
helping HAND. You were HANDpicked by the Lord, etc. Each girl took a different colored
hand cut out and wrote a note to the Bishop like this:
Dear Bishop _________ On the thumb
Thank you for __________ On pointer
Thanks for_____________ On middle finger
I will support you by ________ On ring finger
Love, ____________ On pinkie
Then we glued them onto the poster in between the phrases (I laid hands out on the board
when I wrote the words, to make sure the hands would fit on Sunday)
Then we invited the Bishop to come in for the last 5 minutes of class. We gave him the
poster and a plate of hand cookies (sugar cookies cut out in the shape of a hand, frosted
flesh colored with red M&M's for the nails....too cute!) and told him they were our
hands to represent our commitment to support him in his calling. He was touched and so
were the girls. He stayed, and knelt with our class in prayer. It was a tender moment for
all.
For the girl’s handout, I gave them one Hand cookie with the quote from Pres.
Hinckley attached.
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