November Sharing Time: Sharing the Gospel

This month's Sharing Time activity focuses on ways the children can share the gospel and prepare to be missionaries.

Print each of the following ways a child can be a missionary or prepare to be a missionary on strips of paper. Put the strips in a sack or basket. Have a child choose a strip and act out what it says. (They can use words and they can involve other children in their role play if needed.) Have the other children guess what they are doing. After the children correctly guess, discuss how that relates to being a missionary. Repeat having a child choose a strip and act out what it says until all the strips are chosen or as time allows.

1. Invite nonmember friends to come to primary with you.
2. Put money in a missionary fund.
3. Learn how to mend clothes or sew on a button.
4. Take a treat to someone who is ill or lonely.
5. Pray for the missionaries.
6. Say hello to two new people at school.
7. Give someone a Book of Mormon with your testimony written inside.
8. Memorize an Article of Faith.
9. Bear your testimony in sacrament meeting.
10. Do an act of service for a neighbor.

Tell the children a story about a child who shares their testimony with others, such as “Jamie’s Testimony,” by Patricia Warnock, Friend, June 1990, p. 42 or “A Testimony Feels Good,” by Bryan Dayley and Beth Dayley, Friend, May 1996, p. 34.

Give each child a sheet of paper. Ask them to write or draw their testimony. Tell them that you will send these testimonies to the missionaries to share with people they are teaching. (Arrange to give the testimonies to the missionaries serving in your area or to send them to missionaries serving from your ward.) While they are writing, have the pianist softly play missionary songs. The children can hum along if they wish.

Sing songs that reinforce this lesson such as: “We’ll Bring the World His Truth,” (Children’s Songbook, p. 172); “I Hope They Call Me on a Mission,” (CS, p. 169); “The Church of Jesus Christ,”(CS, p. 77); “I Am a Child of God,” (CS, p. 2); and “Called to Serve,” (CS, 174).