Lessons and Spiritual Thoughts Silent Lesson The whole purpose of this lesson is for the women to be silent, be still and focus on their thoughts and what they are feeling so hopefully they will recognize the Spirit when it witnesses to them that what they are reading, hearing, seeing, experiencing....is true. Timing is very important.  It is important to start your meeting on time because the lesson takes almost 50 minutes.  You may want to go over this lesson at home to make sure you know when to change transparencies....that is the sign for the sisters to turn the pages in their booklets.  Also, when you should turn off the music and turn on the video and how much time it will take you. The music that is used for this lesson can be found on the following music CD's.  I have included the name of the CD, the name of the artist and links where you might could find the music CD's. Power In His Touch - by Colette Call  http://www.watersdomain.com/colettecall/power.htm This CD can also be found through Deseretbook.com Song - In This Very Room My Soul Delighteth: The Best of the Gibbons Family http://deseretbook.com/store/product?product_id=100003948 Also performed by Sharlene Wells Hawks on the Glory: Music Affirming Faith CD produced by Deseret Book http://deseretbook.com/store/product?product_id=100006454 Song - Someday He Will Come - by Felicia Sorensen Women of Destiny - Deseret Book Company http://deseretbook.com/store/product?product_id=100028061 Also, this song by Felicia Sorensen can be found on the His Love vol. 2 CD produced by Shadow Mountain http://deseretbook.com/store/product?product_id=100041003

Outline of Silent Lesson Things to do prior to Silent Lesson: Advertise in monthly newsletter, RS program, Sacrament Service Program about a special Relief Society lesson and ask the sisters to remember to bring their scriptures this day. Make sure you have a TV/VCR or DVD available to use day of the lesson. Reserve the overhead projector if you are going to use it plus have pages copied or printed on transparencies. Copy and put together "Believe" booklets for each sister in RS. Get extra copies of Bible from library for those who forget theirs and also plenty of pens & pencils for the RS women. Get a copy of the video "The Lamb of God" and have it ready to play at the spot you want it to start at.  About 3/4 through the video is where Christ is coming through the crowd carrying his cross.  From that point to the end of the film is about 8-10 min. You will need a CD player to play the music that goes along with the lesson. Day of lesson, set up the room. Have it darkened with only lamps to light the room for soft lighting. Since this is a silent lesson and the sisters would be quietly reflecting and pondering, we felt that the darkened room would be good for those whose emotions may be strong. Have the overhead projector screen in one corner and the TV/VCR in the other. We decorated the table with a soft light shining up on a picture of Christ with soft, white silky material flowing around the top of the table and around the base of the picture. Day of Lesson: Only RS Secretary will greet sisters at the door with program.  Program will have the RS announcements on it and also instructions for the lesson.  It will instruct the sisters that there will be no speaking, how the program will go and that when the prelude music is stopped there will be a 2.5 minute of silence for personal silent prayers.  Presidency will be in the room, seated quietly..not talking.  Have the first song "In This Very Room" on the CD playing (in repeat mode) as the sisters are arriving. When it is time to start (it is important that you start on time because the lesson takes 45-50 minutes to complete), stop the prelude music and give the sisters 2.5 minutes for personal silent opening prayers. After the prayer, immediately start the music CD and follow the program below (I have put down the time of each song or video clip. Hopefully you will have enough time to do all of this). The full lesson is 46 minutes so it is important to start on time and have no announcements...they should all be on the program so as not to speak and also not to take the time away from the lesson. There will always be late comers...just start on time and have the Secretary stand at the door to motion the late sisters in quietly. Leave seats empty close to the door for late comers or sisters with babies to escape. Immediately after prayer start the music CD on song #1 (In this Very Room - 4 min). When song is started you will have (BELIEVE) Transparency on the overhead.   About (1) minute into the song put Page 1 Transparency on the overhead (Have you been listening to the song?) and leave it there through the entire 1st song. (You will not stop the music CD until you get to the video portion)   Immediately when the 1st song ends, put Page 2 Transparency (In the scriptures, a young woman) on the overhead . (When you change transparencies, that will signal to the sisters that it is time to turn the page in their booklets which page is what is on the overhead). #2 song on the CD (Sleep my Child) will begin as sisters are reading in their booklets or the overhead (3.5 min).   #3 song on CD (Instrumental of Sleep My Child - 4 min) will start as you change to transparency Page 3.  During this song the sisters will use their scriptures and write in their booklets.   #4 song on CD (Power in His Touch - 4.25 min) will begin as you change to transparency Page 4 (Do you seek a God of Miracles - picture of Boy/Christ).   (I did not do it, but if you want to you could insert some pictures here during this song, of Christ healing the sick, preaching, blessing etc... on overhead.  I just had them sit and listen to the song.)   #5 song on CD (Instrumental of Power in His Touch - 4.25 min) will begin as you change to transparency Page 5 (Do you seek a God of miracles? Scripture read page).   The sisters will be looking up and reading a story in the scriptures and writing in their booklets during this song.   #6 song on CD (My Peace - 5 min) will begin as you change to transparency Page 6 (Do you find yourself in places..).   Sisters will ponder and write in booklet during song.   #7 song on CD (Gethsemane - 4.5 min) will begin as you change to transparency Page 7 (Please read in your scriptures).   Sisters will read in scriptures and ponder during song.   Immediately after Gethsemane song PUSH PAUSE on your CD player.   Change transparency to Page 8 (Watch now as we go back...) and turn on the TV/VCR to the clip of the Savior being crucified (Lamb of God Video). Sisters will view this video clip.   Play it to the end of the video (where they find the tomb empty) and then turn off TV/VCR.   Put Page 9 Transparency (Someday He Will Come) on the overhead as you start the CD player on song #8 (Some Day He Will Come - 4 min). The sisters will read along with the music...words are in their booklets.   When CD song #9 begins (Instrumental of My Peace - 5 min) put on overhead page 10 transparency (The scripture stories Luke shares...). During this final song of the lesson the sisters will write their thoughts and feelings. This concludes the silent lesson.  If you are right on time, you can stop the CD after this song and have a prearranged sister come up and give the closing prayer.  If you have additional time left and there are still sisters writing in their booklets, I have added a few more songs to the end of the CD.  Just let it keep playing until you are ready to conclude. Instructions to be printed on the PROGRAM and handed to the sisters as they arrive. Lindon Third Ward Relief Society Our lesson today is one of quiet reflection, hoping to give you a moment of listening, watching, pondering, reading and recording your own thoughts about Christ and the sincerity and depths of your own beliefs in Him. Be still....Be quiet and allow the Spirit the opportunity to testify of our Savior. May this experience instill in your soul a greater testimony of our Savior and his complete love for you. Please come in, find a seat and quietly listen to the beautiful music. The lyrics will testify that in this very room....Jesus Is Here.   The Booklet and Transparencies The transparencies coincide with the booklet.  When a transparency is changed, that is the notice that it is time to turn the page.  I have attached below, the first page of the booklet and transparencies.  I have then summarized the remaining pages of the booklet and transparencies. Have you been listening to the words of this song? "In this very room, there's quite enough hope and quite enough power to chase away any gloom..... for Jesus, Lord Jesus, is in this very room." How can we know that Jesus is in this very room? Is it even important to know "how"? Sometimes we don't have to know exactly how or why something exists. We just know, and feel, that it does. Page 1 Page 2 - In the scriptures, a young woman was chosen to be the mother of the Savior of the World. Can you even imagine the love and the responsibility she must have felt as she held her precious baby in her arms? As you listen to this lullaby think about this faithful woman of God.....Mary. Page 3 - Please open your scriptures to Luke 1:26-35. Read these verses & write down your thoughts to the questions below. Do you think Mary really understood all that the angel Gabriel told her? Why or why not?   And yet, what was her response? Read Luke 1:38 When the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her she would bring forth a son, she did not ask, "Why me?". She did not argue. She did not doubt. She did not hesitate. She simply said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word." Mary believed that it would happen. How can we take Mary's example and make it be a part of our lives? When you are finished, please close your scriptures. Page 4 - Do you seek a God of miracles? Where can you find him? Listen to this beautiful message.... "Come find Him and feel the Power of His Touch". (Picture of Savior with a child.) Page 5 - Do you seek a God of miracles? Where can you find him? The scriptures testify to the Power of His Touch. Come to Him through the scriptures...there you will find Him, there you will know Him and there the greatest miracle of all will happen within your soul. Through the scriptures, our Savior healed the sick, the dead he raised and the multitude he fed. Please open your scriptures and read Luke 8:43-48. Sometimes we have faith to believe things without seeing them. This woman BELIEVED that if she just touched the Master's robe, she would be healed. What are you willing to do to feel that kind of faith? Page 6 - Do you find yourself in places of darkness from time to time? Do mortal trials weaken your faith and bring turmoil to your spirit? When your heart is troubled, how do you find peace? Can you think of experiences in your life where the Comforter was near and He brought you peace?   (Picture of Christ) Page 7 - Please read in your scriptures Luke 22:39-44 Can you see Christ kneeling in the Garden? Can you feel his torment....his pain? Our Savior prayed in agony that if it could be possible...to remove the "bitter cup".   He trembled....great drops of blood flowed from every pore....yet He submitted to the Father..."Thy will be done". Can you see Him in the Garden? Can you even imagine how much He must love YOU to suffer so much pain for YOU. Page 8 - Watch now as we go back in time and experience what it might have been like when the time had finally come for the Savior  to lay down His life for us. Clear your mind, open your heart and feel with your soul.......... Let the Spirit testify of the Savior's LOVE for YOU!! Page 9 - Someday He will come Sure as we live and breathe One day every man and woman living on the earth will see His face...Someday. Someday He will come Sure as the seasons change He will call the children to Him He will bless the souls of every race Someday. When He comes the world will melt away Earthly things will slip right through our hands Leaving just our hearts to stand before him Just our lives to speak for what we've done...What we've become. Someday He will come, Sure as the end of day When I humbly bow before Him Will He find me worthy of His mercy and His grace. I will speak of Him with every breath I will seek His spirit all my days. Everything I am I will surrender Just to know Him when this life is done When He comes again......Someday. (Picture of Christ....I had a picture of a small girl looking at Christ's wounded hand from the Classiclips Inspirational Images.) Page 10 - The scripture stories Luke shares with us of Christ are true.   Mary believed that her son would be the Messiah.   The holy scriptures testify that Christ was born, He was a gentle carpenter who grew in spirit to heal the sick, raise the dead and atone for our sins. Do you Believe? Does your Savior know that you Believe? Please take a quiet moment to feel the Spirit witness to you the truth...... The truth that you are a daughter of God and are of infinite worth.... The truth that Christ believed in your worth and died for you..... The truth that You Believe in Christ!!! Please write down your feelings: The music I used came from the following Artists (I purchased CD's through Deseret Book Store: "In This Very Room" - Gibbons Family or Sharlene Wells Hawks "Someday He Will Come" - Felicia Sorenson All other songs were from the CD "Power in His Touch" - Colette Call The clip-art that I used on the transparencies (except for Mary/Baby) came from Classiclips Inspirational Images-Bright Impressions You can get this clipart CD at Deseretbook.com or through http://www.brightimpressions.com Video - "Lamb of God" - Church Distribution Center (your ward library may have a copy) I bought ink-jet printer transparencies for the overhead projector at our local office supply store.  I just printed each transparency out from my printer.  If you have Power Point capabilities or a DVD projector, you could burn a CD with your files from a word processing program and project them that way.  (That really sounds like I am smart.....but in reality I have no idea what I just said....that is why I used transparencies and an ancient overhead projector.) 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