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.

This Week's Lesson

To read the lesson for this week, click on the picture of the manual to the right. When you are reading the lesson online, you can open and read the scriptures in the lesson with just one click. Try it.

Art

If you would like to use a picture with this week's lesson, try browsing through the Gospel Art Picture Kit, which is available online or in your meetinghouse library. Two pictures you could use are listed below.

• Jesus at the Door, Gospel Art Picture Kit, no. 237
• The Resurrected Jesus Christ, Gospel Art Picture Kit, no. 239

For suggestions on using pictures in your class, read "Pictures" and "Visuals" in Teaching, No Greater Call, pages 176, 182–83.

Music

Music can invite the Spirit into your class and reinforce doctrines and principles in the lesson. For ideas on hymns that would be appropriate for this week's lesson, use the topical index in the back of the hymnbook or use the online topical index or scripture-hymn index. Using the Interactive Church Music Player on the Church Music site, you can listen to a hymn, download a hymn, or read the words of a hymn. For suggestions on using hymns or other music in your class, read "Music" in Teaching, No Greater Call, pages 172–74.

Additional Teaching Helps

• Before you prepare lesson 1, read or reread "Helps for the Teacher" on pages v–vi of the lesson manual. As you read, consider: Since there are only 44 lessons in this manual, what might you do to develop a year's worth of lessons for your class? What can you do to help class members have a personal experience with the scriptures?
• Suggestion for teaching youth: "Encourage them to imagine themselves in the future. Teach them today the things they will need to know tomorrow" (Teaching, No Greater Call, 120). For more ideas on teaching youth, you might want to review "Understanding and Teaching Youth," in Teaching, No Greater Call, 118–120.