“Youth activities should be planned with gospel purposes in mind. During these activities, you should be alert for opportunities to help young people strengthen their testimonies, develop talents and leadership skills, give service, and develop friendships with others who are committed to gospel principles” (Teaching, No Greater Call: A Resource Guide for Gospel Teaching [1999], 121).

Activities can create experiences in which you and those you teach apply gospel principles. Whenever appropriate, take time after an activity to talk with the young people about the gospel principles they have applied. You can be guided by the following questions:

• What? What did you do? What happened?
• So what? Why did you hold the activity? What did your youth learn from it?
• Now what? How did this activity make a difference in your life? Will you do anything differently in the future because of what you learned today? If so, what?

Remind the youth of what they felt and what they learned. Use activities as examples when you teach lessons. Among the greatest gifts you can give young people are experiences in which they discover that the gospel applies in their lives. (See Teaching, No Greater Call, 122.)

Additional Helps

• 1 Nephi 19:23
• Teaching No Greater Call, 121–22