Teachers: The lessons in the manual contain more information than you will probably be able to teach in one class period. Seek the Spirit of the Lord in selecting the scripture passages, stories, activities, questions, and other lesson materials that best meet the needs of class members.

Basic Resources

• Do you want to see this week's lesson? Lesson 38

• You can read the assigned scriptures for this week online: Genesis 39:1–20; 1 Corinthians 6:19–20; 2 Nephi 28:2, 20–22; Moroni 7:16–17; D&C 98:11; 133:5; Articles of Faith 1:13.

• The lesson manual quotes from the For the Strength of Youth pamphlet (item no. 36550). This pamphlet was revised in 2001, which was after the Preparing for Exaltation lesson manual was published in 1998. You will want to make sure you are using the revised For the Strength of Youth pamphlet in class and that class members have a copy.

Recent Talks and Articles in Church Magazines

Why do Church leaders emphasize chastity so much? Elder Jeffrey R. Holland explains: "All of this is to try to tell you how your Father in Heaven feels about you and what He has designed for you to become. And if for a time any of you are less visionary than this or seem bent on living beneath your privilege, then we express even greater love for you and plead with you to make your teenage years a triumph, not a tragedy. Fathers and mothers, prophets and apostles have no motive except to bless your life and to spare you every possible heartache we can spare you. "For you to fully claim Heavenly Father’s blessings and protection, we ask you to stay true to the standards of the gospel of Jesus Christ and not slavishly follow the whims of fads and fashions. The Church will never deny your moral agency regarding what you should wear and exactly how you should look. But the Church will always declare standards and will always teach principles. As Sister Susan Tanner taught this morning, one of those principles is modesty. In the gospel of Jesus Christ, modesty in appearance is always in fashion. Our standards are not socially negotiable" ("To Young Women," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 28–29). Listen to this talk online or download the MP3 audio file.

Why should we treat our physical bodies as temples? Sister Susan W. Tanner, Young Women general president, provides an answer: "What would happen if we truly treated our bodies as temples? The result would be a dramatic increase in chastity, modesty, observance of the Word of Wisdom, and a similar decrease in the problems of pornography and abuse, for we would regard the body, like the temple, as a sacred sanctuary of the Spirit. Just as no unclean thing may enter the temple, we would be vigilant to keep impurity of any sort from entering the temple of our bodies" ("The Sanctity of the Body," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 13–14). Listen to this talk online or download the MP3 audio file.

Additional Helps

• You might want to include in your lesson some of the principles outlined in the "Dress and Appearance" and "Sexual Purity" sections of For the Strength of Youth.