Bishop L. Todd Budge (Oct. '21): "Giving Holiness to the Lord"

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 This talk is a companion talk, if you will, to Sister Eubank's talk.  Both of them are uncommon examples of times when a topic is assigned to a speaker in general conference.  In this case, both of these talks are reports to the Church membership about the Humanitarian efforts of the Church.

The Activity:

  1. Ask the class members to define sacrifice.
  2. Explain that Bishop Budge talks about sacrifice in a different way than we often think about it.
  3. Read par. 9 "In modern usage . . . for the Lord."
  4. Go on to explain that Bishop Budge goes further by saying that we should think of sacrifice as "giving to" our Father as opposed to "giving up" things.
  5. Ask the class members to think about how this change in thinking might impact other aspects of sacrifice for us and others.
  6. Discuss these impacts.
    1. At some point during the discussion, it will probably be helpful to read par. 12 "When our sacrifice . . . contentment, and joy."

Using the Activity:

I found this shift in thinking about sacrifice to be very powerful and felt prompted to design an activity that focused on that as opposed to perhaps more obvious things.  I do believe that making this change in our view of sacrifice will be vital at some point to our staying strong.  So, this activity is designed to help class members hopefully see the power in this tiny change.  The activity tries to do so by asking the class members to imagine those things-- something that we are often asked to do in the scriptures.  

God bless you in your efforts to teach with power and authority.  

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