This is the lesson we gave during the ward conferences. Our president related a story from Bishop H. Burke Peterson's talk in General Conference called, "Removing the Poison of an Unforgiving Spirit". It's about a group of YSA that go hiking in the mountains of Las Vegas, and one of the girls gets bitten by a poisonous snake. Instead of rushing her to the hospital, they waste time tracking down and killing the snake. By the time she gets to the hospital, her leg is beyond saving and they have to amputate it. Below are some example pictures of the slides. For the snake story, if you'd like to use different pictures or if you need to print out pictures other than the ones I made, I'd suggest www.pixabay.com They have free pictures and graphics you can use. Or check out stock free photos using a Google search.
I originally had a copy of the full lesson plan we used but I'm unable to find a copy anymore, and it's been over a year that this lesson was given as I'm updating this. However, with the new program of teaching and the direction we're supposed to be taking with our teaching, I encourage you to prayerfully consider the words Heavenly Father would have to teach to your family or Relief Society sisters or whomever you're preparing this lesson for. There are several talks from General Conference and books available on the subject of forgiveness. I was able to include the 6 major discussion points we used (see below) so maybe that will help you create a general outline for your lesson/talk.
I made cards for all the sisters in our stake by printing the images below on regular sized card stock in different colors. Send me an email if you'd like a copy sent to you (it's available in English and Spanish). It has a quote on the front with questions on the inside. We purposely didn't do the questions during the lesson. We handed them out at the end, and encouraged them to think about the lesson and fill out the card at home or during their personal studies.
I bought reflective mirror-like paper on Amazon HERE and then cut them to fit the mirror on the inside of the card. I used a craft glue to adhere them to the paper. I found it was easier to print everything, glue the mirrors, cut the paper in half, and then fold in half. (You don't even have to fold them in half if you don't want to. I have a scoring board that is useful for making cards so it didn't take much time at all.) It sounds like a lot but since we weren't doing all of the ward conferences at once, I only needed to worry about 30 cards at a time. Make sure you print front and back
FRONT (English)
INSIDE (English)
FRONT (Spanish)
INSIDE (Spanish)
The most frustrating part of all this was trying to get the internet to work in the Church buildings. I had my own projector that I got off Amazon that was affordable. I wanted to make sure we had one in case the building we were going to be in didn't have one. I also used Google Slides to create the presentation instead of PowerPoint because Google Slides is free and accessible from any device when I can log into my Google account (they also free versions of Word and Excel). I have a Chromecast so ideally I could connect the Chromecast to the projector, pull up the presentation on my phone, cast to the Chromecast, and then it'd show up on the projector. I had to do it this way because no one in our presidency or myself owns a laptop. If so, you can connect it to one of the TV's from the library. The building the YSA meet in already has a projector installed in the main room because it doubles as the institute building. Thankfully, we had the posters as back up. You can order those from Walgreens or Wal-Mart, etc.
We received a lot of positive feedback from the sisters who wanted extra cards for the sisters that were on their visiting teaching route or they wanted copies of the slides so they could study it on their own. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions!
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