Monday, September 15, 2014

"Come Follow Me": September~ Why is it important to be honest?

This post is lesson helps and printable for "Come Follow Me" September's: Why is it important to be honest?  This lesson is a combination of several bullets suggested in the lesson outline.

As my attention-getter we played this game:

We then filled out this Cause and Effect chart. 
They use the Strength of Youth book to write down the 3 things listed that is not honest. Then, we looked up some of the scriptures in the outline that tell the outcome of a dishonest person.  I wanted to stress to them that you should be honest not just because you will be "thrust down to hell" but because it's the RIGHT THING TO DO!  We talked about how you can't have the companionship of the Holy Ghost if you are dishonest with people.  Yes, we talked about repentance too. :)


I used this object lesson when talking about lying with friends.  I explained how you build up a relationship with a friend.  And if you start lying to them then your relationship with crumble.  I had a YW pull a cup out from the "foundation" of the friendship.  We talked about how it's a lot harder to build a relationship back up after you have been dishonest with them.


Being a past teacher, unfortunately when I taught Middle School I experienced a LOT of cheating. :(  I told the girls how I would just get so frustrated cuz I couldn't trust them that they would keep their eyes on their own paper.  I had to make a TEST A and TEST B.  Have a different Pop Quiz with each class because kids would take pictures of the quiz and send it to friends in other classes.  I told the YW that I would just get so frustrated I wanted to do this to them {showed the above pictures... they thought it was funny}. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THESE PICS HERE. They responded that you should!  I said I shouldn't have to!  That's the problem! Everyone should have the moral compass inside them to know that it's not ok to cheat. 

PERSONAL STORY: I told them the story about how I had a male student who was very popular.  The girls all thought he was super cute.  He was an athlete.  One day he asked me to complete a teacher recommendation form for student council.  He had 2 older siblings that had once been on student council so he thought for sure he would be selected.  I couldn't check the box that said yes.  It was because he was one of my students that would try to cheat during tests.  I couldn't recommend him as an example to students when I knew he was dishonest.  


I also shared these stories from the conference talks: 

I showed the video Honesty: You better believe it


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  1. I'm teaching this lesson today and I'm so glad that you posted this! It has given me a lot of fun ideas. Thanks, girl!

  2. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing!

    On a side note, it was really hard to comment here. My guess is that others are trying to comment as well...

  3. super excited to find this! I just found out my advisor is unable to teach Sunday and I'll have the lesson. have a great day and thank you for the help and great ideas!
    this is also my first comment and it was not that easy to post

  4. Thank you so much! I was having a hard time with this lesson, but you saved me. Thank you!!

  5. So happy I found this post! We have 2 girls in our Mia Maid class that learn so much better and are more involved when there is a hands on activity. Thank you!!

  6. Thank you for breaking down this lesson on how you taught it! It helped me so much organize my own lesson & thoughts.

  7. Great lesson ideas!! Thank you for posting this lesson.

  8. Thank you for sharing the links to talks and the video. These are great!

  9. Thank you so much for this outline!!! I actually already had my lesson prepared but thought I would look on pinterest for some other ideas so I've completely revamped my lesson to include those first 2 activities!