Alma 5-7 – Have Ye Experienced This Mighty Change in Your Hearts?

Links to FREE resources for children, youth, and adults to enhance this week’s Book of Mormon Come, Follow Me reading of Alma 5-7

EVERYONE

Activity – What’s on Your Mind? – This Q&A from the Friend can help you teach your children that Jesus Christ understands how they feel when they are sad or grieving. Includes a scripture matching activity.

Activity – Lots of Ways to Say ‘I Love You.’ – Play this heart-shaped board game from the Friend with your children.

Video – Alma the Younger Sets the Church in Order in Zarahemla (Alma 5) – Book of Mormon Videos

Video – Alma the Younger Teaches the People of Gideon (Alma 7) – Book of Mormon Videos

CHILDREN

Activity – “A Little Better Every Day” – Match the wrong choices with the better choices these kids made the next day.

Activity – I Can Have the Savior’s Image in My Countenance – Coloring Page

Article – Me? A Bully? – Read this Friend story to find out how Jeff experiences a change of heart in how he treats his classmates.

Article – Why Is the Savior’s Atonement So Important? – This child-friendly message from Dallin H. Oaks teaches how the Atonement of Jesus Christ can bless us.

Article – Spring Cleaning – When Gordon B. Hinckley was a boy, his family cleaned their house from top to bottom every spring. We, too, can know the joy of being clean through the Savior.

Article – “What if I feel like I don’t measure up?” – Elder Jeffrey R. Holland encourages us to keep trying, even when we make mistakes. Includes a story from the life of Elder Holland.

YOUTH

Article – How to Keep a Mighty Change of Heart – In this New Era article, Dale G. Renlund shares not only how we can have a mighty change of heart but also how to continue to endure after our hearts have been changed.

Article – The Atonement of Jesus Christ – In this New Era article, Tad R. Callister discusses the four things that Christ overcame to help us progress spiritually.

Poster – The Power to Succor – Print out this page from the New Era and hang it in your home where it can remind family members how the Savior can help them in their trials.

Video – A Mighty Change of Heart – (Alma 5:12–14) Russell M. Nelson talks about “a mighty change” of heart.

Video – Succor His People – (Alma 7:12) Jeffrey R. Holland talks about how the Lord will succor His people.

Video – The Healing power of the Atonement – (Alma 7:11–13) Dallin H. Oaks talks about the healing power of the Atonement.

YOUTH & ADULTS

Article – How Can Alma’s Questions Help Me Grow Spiritually? – An insert in the June Ensign

Article – Preserving the Heart’s Mighty Change – To endure to the end, we need to be eager to please God and worship Him with fervor.

Article – The Power of a Personal Testimony – Our firm personal testimony will motivate us to change ourselves and then bless the world.

Article – Strengthened by the Atonement of Jesus Christ – Because of His Atonement, the Savior has the power to succor—to help—every mortal pain and affliction.

Article – Receiving and Retaining a Mighty Change – In this Ensign article, Wilford W. Andersen teaches us that as we strive to follow the principles and ordinances of the gospel throughout our lives, Christ can continually change our hearts.

Article – The Redeeming and Strengthening Power of the Savior’s Atonement – Read this Ensign article by Kim B. Clark to see how we can rely on the Savior and be strengthened by Him no matter what we’re going through.

ADULTS

Article – Lessons from the Zarahemla Churches – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – Dealing with Opposition to the Church – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – Teaching in Black and White: Antithetic Parallel Structure in the Book of Alma, Its Form and Function – BYU Religious Studies Center

Video – Discussions on the Book of Mormon: Alma 5-7 – BYUtv.

Video – The Book of Mormon: Alma’s Teachings in Zarahemla and Gideon (Alma 5–7) – BYU Religious Education

Video – The Book of Mormon: Christ’s Atonement in Mosiah, Alma, and Moroni – BYU Religious Education