Contributed by: cindysmythe@hotmail.com
1- Have a volunteer come to the front of the room and have her sit in a chair. ask them to
name different ways we are tempted to be dishonest. for
each response, wrap string around the volunteer. they quickly see that when you are
dishonest it is easy to become trapped.
I then used the quote "O, what a tangled we we weave, when first we practice to
deceive".
I did that at the beginning and also quoted it again at the end. for the handout, I
printed that quote on spider web paper, and made spider cookies. take an Oreo apart and put
3 strips of licorice string. use icing to attach the cookie back together. then use icing
to hold 2 red hots on for eyes.
2- I bought the pre-made rice crispy treats and opened them and replaced them with
sponges. I let the girls open them and then we talked about how they felt to be deceived.
How they felt when they were expecting a nice treat but got a sponge
I used several parts from the lesson and used [these stories]: The Empty Pot, and the Chemistry class story...Which Tire and We Believe in Being Honest.
We say we believe in being honest. My friend Kathy Smith told a true story of a
young football player. This young man was the only member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints on the school team. The coach made fun of him, occasionally deriding him
and making his life miserable. The young man loved the sport but decided not to put
himself through the agony of being picked on any more. That coach just did not understand.
No more football for him.
Halfway through the summer, this young man reconsidered, deciding to play his last year of
high school football after all. When he went to the counter to pay the deposit for his
gear, he hurriedly accepted the change he was given and shoved it in his pocket.
When he got home and pulled the stuff out of his pockets, he was mortified to see that he
had been given too much change -- five dollars too much. "Oh, great!" he
said to himself. "If I take the money back, the coach will be in my face right off
the bat. Forget it! I'll just keep the extra cash and save myself the problems."
He told his Mom what happened. Mom said, "Well, dear, I know you will do what you
think is right." (Interesting how wise Moms can place the responsibility squarely on
our shoulders, huh?) The next morning he returned to the counter and handed over the
five dollars. "Yesterday you gave me too much change. I've come to return it."
The coach, standing in the background, punched his assistant in the arm. "Pay
up!" he said. "I told you he would bring the money back! You owe me ten
dollars! I told you he wouldn't keep that extra money!"
The young man almost fainted. He had been set up! Even though the coach had teased him and
made fun from time to time, he figured this Mormon boy lived what he was taught. His
standards would not allow him to be less than honest. What if the football player hadn't
brought the money back??
Just like the wise man in the primary song, honesty is a building block for a strong house
on a firm foundation. We will live better by living honestly.
And we may be the example to a lot of others, even when we are unaware! Fortunate for this
young man, he did live as we say we believe. We believe in being honest!
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