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Is Not This the Fast?

A hangry fast that missed the point, where your fast offering actually goes, and a Sabbath you might like

  • 🧭 Youth 11–14
  • Week 42
  • 📅 Sunday, October 18, 2026
🤔 Forehead Guess🏆 Showdown
💡 The big idea

The Lord’s kind of fast is about loving people and drawing close to Him, and it brings light, guidance, and joy.

I can fast and keep the Sabbath in ways that help other people and bring me closer to the Lord.

Study it yourself firstRead Isaiah 58–66 in Gospel LibraryCome, Follow Me manualOpen this week (Isaiah 58–66)
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Isaiah 58 opens with a complaint. The people were fasting and going through the motions, and they asked the Lord, in effect, “Why don’t You notice?” (58:2–3). His answer is blunt: on your fast days you still chase your own interests, push your workers harder, and argue and fight (58:3–4). Bowing your head like a drooping reed and sitting in sackcloth and ashes is not the point (58:5). The fast He chooses loosens the bands of wickedness, lifts heavy burdens, frees the oppressed, feeds the hungry, shelters the poor, clothes the naked, and doesn’t hide from your own family (58:6–7).

Then come some of the best promises in the Old Testament: your light will break out like the morning, your healing will come quickly, you’ll call and the Lord will answer, “Here I am,” He’ll guide you continually, and you’ll be like a watered garden whose water never runs dry (58:8–11). Verses 13–14 add the Sabbath: when we turn it from “my own pleasure” into a day focused on the Lord and call it a delight, He promises joy. The rest of the block looks forward: “Arise, shine; for thy light is come” (60:1), “beauty for ashes” (61:3), and new heavens and a new earth where the wolf and lamb feed together (65:17–25).

Jesus Christ read Isaiah 61:1–2 aloud in the synagogue in Nazareth and said, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears” (Luke 4:16–21). He is the One who heals broken hearts and trades our ashes for beauty. In the Church today, fast Sunday usually comes once a month. Those who are able go without food and drink for two meals, pray with a purpose, and give a fast offering, at least what the meals would have cost and more if they can. The bishop uses fast offerings to help people in need, and in many wards the deacons help gather them. Anyone whose health could be affected should talk with their parents or a doctor; there are other ways to take part.

For 11- to 14-year-olds: many are fasting on their own for the first time, and “hangry” is real. Be honest that fasting is hard, and help them see the why: fasting is aimed at people and at the Lord, not at looking holy. On the Sabbath, avoid giving them a list of don’ts. Talk about what helps them feel close to the Lord and rested, and let them wrestle with the gray areas (phones, games, homework).

Only have 5 minutes?

Read Isaiah 58:3–11 and 58:13–14. Do the Hangry Scale hook, let Teach Mode run the Hangry Fast scene (it’s funny), teach Isaiah 58:6 with the motions, count the promises in 58:8–11 together, play Delight or Drag?, and close by reading Isaiah 61:1–3 and Luke 4:21. Brought nothing? Tap “I brought nothing”: the donation slip becomes an invisible envelope, and the promise count runs from your own scriptures.

What to bring4 items

Tick what you have. Forgot something? Every step that needs a supply has a no-supplies version in the plan below.

Before class

  1. Pick up a donation slip and find the “Fast offerings” line so you can point to it quickly.
  2. Text a confident youth to be Isaiah, who reads the Lord’s answers in the story (Isaiah 58:6–7 and 58:8), and a born actor to be the Bulrush Bower.
  3. If you can, ask your bishop or a deacons quorum adviser how fast offerings are gathered in your ward, so you can explain it accurately.
  4. Split the class into two teams for the whole lesson: Team Morning and Team Garden. Keep score on the Goal Jar or with tally marks.
  5. Think of one short, true time when a fast or a Sabbath day brought you light or an answer. You’ll share it at the end.

If your class is wild

  • Let the Bulrush Bower overact: drooping, sighing, and peeking to see if anyone is noticing how holy they are. Isaiah was calling out fake fasting on purpose.
  • Some youth may be hungry, tired, or fasting today. Keep the energy up, and don’t shame anyone who didn’t fast.
  • Delight or Drag? can get loud and opinionated. That’s good. Keep one rule: argue ideas, never people.
  • If a youth says fasting doesn’t work for them, don’t argue. Ask what they fasted for, and share what fasting has taught you over time.
  • End quiet: read Luke 4:21 slowly and pause before you testify.

The 25-minute plan24 min + bonus

Bonus steps are for when you have extra time. Steps that mention Teach Mode, the Sound Board or other class games refer to the Gospel Sparks app; on the web you can play Forehead Guess and Scripture Showdown from this page.

1. Hook

The Hangry Scale

2 min

Youth laugh about how hungry they get, then face the real question: why would anyone skip meals on purpose?

  1. SAY“Honest question. On a scale of 1 to 10, how hangry do you get when you miss a meal?” Fingers up. Let a couple of 10s explain.
  2. Ask: “So why would anyone skip two meals on purpose?” Popcorn answers. (To get closer to God, for a blessing for someone, for strength to change, to help the poor.)
  3. SAY“In Isaiah 58, people were fasting and complaining that God didn’t notice. God’s answer was surprising. Let’s see it.”
🌪️ If anyone is fasting today, thank them quietly and keep snacks out of sight.

Class screen: 😤 How hangry do you get? 1–10. · So why skip meals on purpose?

2. Story

Scripture Scene: The Hangry Fast

5 min

Acting out Isaiah 58 shows that the Lord’s fast is about lifting people, not looking holy, and that it comes with huge promises.

  1. Hand out roles (tap Roles in Teach Mode). Everyone without a part is in the Crowd.
  2. SAY“Isaiah 58 is a real conversation between the Lord and people who were fasting the wrong way. Some of it is funny. Some of it might sting a little.”
  3. Read each scene and pause for the action. Isaiah reads 58:6–7 in scene 5 and 58:8 in scene 6 from a real Bible.
  4. Afterward ask: “What was wrong with their fast? What would the ‘Bulrush Bower’ look like at school or church today?” (Doing religious things to be seen, or while ignoring people.)
🌪️ When the Crowd bickers in scene 3, give them five seconds, then call “Bulrush!” Everyone droops silently. Use that as your quiet signal all lesson.

Class screen: 🎭 We fasted! Why didn’t You notice?! · Isaiah 58:1–12

3. Wiggle break

Bulrush or Sunrise?

2 min

A quick command game turns Isaiah 58 and 60 into movement and contrasts fake fasting with real light.

  1. Everyone stands. A youth Commander calls the moves, faster and faster:
  2. “Bulrush!” = droop your head and arms like a wilted reed. “Arise, shine!” = jump up and burst your arms open (60:1). “Loose the bands!” = pull your wrists apart. “Watered garden!” = grow from a crouch to tall, swaying branches.
  3. Trick command: “Hide thyself!” Isaiah 58:7 says hide NOT thyself, so anyone who hides does three jumping jacks.
  4. End on “Arise, shine!” and hold it. Ask: “Which one feels more like the fast the Lord wants?”

Class screen: 🌅 Bulrush! Arise, shine! Loose the bands! Watered garden! · Isaiah 58:5–11 · 60:1

4. Object lesson

Where Does It Go?

3 min

Seeing a real donation slip connects Isaiah 58:7 to fast offerings, the bishop, and the deacons who help gather them.

  1. Hold up the donation slip and point to the “Fast offerings” line. Ask: “Who knows what this is for?”
  2. Explain: “On fast Sunday, those who are able skip two meals and give at least what those meals would have cost, or more if they can. The bishop uses fast offerings to help people in need: food, bills, the basics.”
  3. Read Isaiah 58:7: “Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry…?” Say: “Fasting without giving is basically just skipping lunch. Giving turns your hunger into someone else’s groceries.”
  4. Ask the deacons (or anyone who knows): “How are fast offerings gathered in our ward?” Point out that youth can give their own fast offering, even a small one, on a slip or online.
  5. Ask: “Why do you think the Lord connected being hungry yourself with feeding someone else?” Then read President Henry B. Eyring’s conference quote (in this lesson’s Conference quotes) about who feels the relief.

Class screen: 🧾 Your skipped lunch becomes someone else’s groceries. · Isaiah 58:7

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: A “Tithing and Other Offerings” donation slip (ask the ward clerk or look near the bishop’s office)

The Invisible Envelope

  1. Hold up an invisible envelope. Say: “There’s a slip in here with a line called ‘Fast offerings.’ Who knows what that’s for?”
  2. Explain: “On fast Sunday, those who are able skip two meals and give at least what those meals would have cost, or more if they can. The bishop uses fast offerings to help people in need: food, bills, the basics.”
  3. Read Isaiah 58:7: “Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry…?” Pass the invisible envelope around the circle; each person names one person or family who could be blessed by fast offerings (a family after a job loss, someone sick, a new move-in).
  4. Ask the deacons: “How are fast offerings gathered in our ward?” Point out that youth can give their own fast offering, even a small one.
  5. Ask: “Why do you think the Lord connected being hungry yourself with feeding someone else?”

Class screen: ✉️ Your skipped lunch becomes someone else’s groceries. · Isaiah 58:7

5. Scripture

Promise Count: Isaiah 58:6

4 min

Youth memorize the key verse, then race to count every promise the Lord makes to people who fast His way.

  1. Teach Isaiah 58:6 with the motions. Say it twice together, then once as fast as you can.
  2. Pairs open to Isaiah 58:8–12. Say: “Count every promise the Lord makes in these verses. 90 seconds. Most promises found wins.” Start the Big Timer.
  3. The winning pair reads its list. Others add any they missed. (Light like morning, quick healing, righteousness goes before you, the Lord’s glory behind you, He answers “Here I am,” light in darkness, guidance continually, a satisfied soul in drought, strong bones, a watered garden, a spring that never fails, rebuilding old ruins, repairer of the breach.)
  4. Ask: “Which promise would you most want this month? Why?”
🌪️ One phone or book per pair; the partner without it is the official counter.
⏱️ Big Timer (a class game in the Gospel Sparks app)

Class screen: 🔢 How many promises can you find? 90 seconds! · Isaiah 58:8–12

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: Scriptures for pairs: Bibles, a quad, or the Gospel Library app on phones

Promise Clap

  1. Teach Isaiah 58:6 with the motions. Say it twice together, then once as fast as you can.
  2. From your own scriptures, read Isaiah 58:8–11 slowly. Everyone claps once every time they hear a promise. Teams keep their own count.
  3. Compare counts, then read the list back together. (Light like morning, quick healing, righteousness before you, the Lord’s glory behind you, He answers “Here I am,” light in darkness, guidance continually, a satisfied soul, a watered garden, a spring that never fails.)
  4. Ask: “Which promise would you most want this month? Why?”

Class screen: 👏 Clap for every promise you hear! · Isaiah 58:8–11

6. Game

Delight or Drag?

3 min

A debate game on Isaiah 58:13 helps youth think for themselves about what makes the Sabbath a delight.

  1. Read Isaiah 58:13. Say: “I’ll read a Sunday activity. Teams have five seconds to decide: thumbs up (delight: helps me rest and feel close to the Lord), thumbs down (drag: pulls me away), or sideways (depends on how and why).”
  2. Read one at a time: FaceTime a grandparent · a two-hour scroll · a family walk · homework due Monday · baking cookies for a neighbor · a nap · a video game marathon · family history · a board game with siblings · writing a thank-you note.
  3. After each, one player from each team gets 10 seconds to defend their team’s answer. Best argument (you judge) scores a point.
  4. SAY“Notice how many answers were ‘it depends.’ The Sabbath isn’t a list. It’s a question: does this help me turn my heart to the Lord today?”
🌪️ Argue ideas, never people. If it gets heated, freeze everyone with “Bulrush!” and move to the next card.

Class screen: ⚖️ Sabbath delight or Sabbath drag? Defend your answer! · 👍 Delight · 👎 Drag · 👉 Depends

7. Talk it over

Real Talk

3 min

Honest questions help youth own fasting and the Sabbath for themselves.

  1. Sit in a circle. A youth Discussion Leader reads each question and picks who answers.
  2. Anyone can pass. Share one honest answer of your own.
💬 Ask the class
  • What’s the hardest part of fasting for you? What helps?
  • Fasting with a purpose is different from just skipping meals. What’s something or someone worth fasting for?
  • Isaiah 58:7 says “hide not thyself from thine own flesh,” your own family. How could fasting and the Sabbath help at home?
  • What’s one thing that makes Sunday feel like a delight for you, and one thing that makes it drag?
  • Jesus read Isaiah 61 and said it was about Him. Where have you seen Him give someone “beauty for ashes”?

Class screen: 💬 Real talk

8. Testimony

Beauty for Ashes

2 min

Ending with Jesus reading Isaiah 61 shows that the Savior Himself is the One who heals and lifts through fasting and the Sabbath.

  1. Lower your voice. Say: “Hundreds of years after Isaiah, Jesus stood up in the synagogue in His hometown, Nazareth, was handed the scroll of Isaiah, and read chapter 61.”
  2. Read Isaiah 61:1–3 slowly. Then read Luke 4:21: “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
  3. Share your short personal example of a time a fast or a Sabbath brought you light, an answer, or healing. Testify that the Savior still trades ashes for beauty.
  4. Introduce the challenge and invite a youth to pray.

Class screen: 🌸 He gives beauty for ashes, joy for mourning. · Isaiah 61:3 · Luke 4:21

9. Game

Forehead Guess: Arise and Shine Edition

3 minBONUS

A fast bonus review of the words from Isaiah 58–66.

  1. Tap Forehead Guess. Teams alternate 45-second turns.
  2. Youth rules: clue-givers can’t say the word or any word in the hint. Acting is allowed.
▶ Play Forehead Guess on the web

Class screen: 🤔 Forehead Guess: Arise and Shine Edition

10. Game

Scripture Showdown

5 minBONUS

A quick team quiz reviews fasting, the Sabbath, and Isaiah 58–66.

  1. Keep Team Morning and Team Garden. Tap Scripture Showdown.
  2. Ten seconds to whisper, then point. Bonus point if the winning team can name the verse.
▶ Play Scripture Showdown on the web

Class screen: 🏆 Scripture Showdown: Team Morning vs. Team Garden!

Story drama

The Hangry Fast

Isaiah 58:1–12 ↗

Parts to hand out

  • IsaiahThe prophet: lifts his voice like a trumpet and reads the Lord’s answers (Isaiah 58:6–7 and 58:8) from a real Bible.
  • Grumpy FasterComplains loudly: “We fasted! Why doesn’t the Lord notice?”
  • Bulrush BowerDroops dramatically like a wilted reed and keeps peeking to see who’s watching.
  • The BossFasts while barking orders: “Faster! Work harder!”
  • WorkersTwo or three youth who haul invisible bricks, exhausted.
  • Hungry NeighborSits by the door, hungry and cold, hoping someone notices.
  • CrowdEveryone else: argue, gossip, then help the neighbor and grow like a garden.

Scenes

  1. 📣🎺 “Lift up thy voice like a trumpet!”

    The Lord told Isaiah to speak up loud and clear and show the people their sins. The strange part? These people looked very religious. They sought the Lord every day and said they delighted in drawing near to God (58:2).

    🎬 Isaiah cups hands around mouth like a trumpet. The Crowd walks around looking extremely holy.

  2. 😤🍽️ “We fasted! Why didn’t You notice?”

    The people complained to the Lord: “We fasted! We humbled ourselves! Why don’t You see it?” They felt like they had done their part and God owed them something.

    🎬 The Grumpy Faster rubs their stomach and shakes a fist at the sky: “Hello?! We skipped lunch!”

  3. 💼🧱 Fasting while bossing and fighting

    The Lord answered: on your fast day, you still do whatever you want. You push your workers harder. You argue and fight. You can’t fast like that and expect your voice to be heard on high.

    🎬 The Boss barks, “Faster!” The Workers stagger with invisible bricks. The Crowd bickers loudly.

  4. 🌾😔 Head drooping like a bulrush

    Is fasting just about looking miserable? Bowing your head like a drooping reed and sitting in sackcloth and ashes so everybody knows how holy you are? The Lord asks: is that what you call a fast?

    🎬 The Bulrush Bower droops lower… and lower… and peeks up: “Is anyone watching?” The Crowd groans.

  5. 🔓🍞 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen?”

    Then the Lord describes the fast He wants: break chains that hold people down, lift heavy burdens, set people free, share your bread with the hungry, bring the homeless into your home, give clothes to people who need them, and don’t hide from your own family.

    🎬 Isaiah reads Isaiah 58:6–7. The Crowd goes to the Hungry Neighbor, shares invisible bread, and wraps them in an invisible coat. The Boss lets the Workers rest.

  6. 🌅💡 Your light will break out like the morning

    Now the promises. When you fast His way, your light will break out like the sunrise, your healing will come quickly, and when you call, the Lord will answer, “Here I am.”

    🎬 Isaiah reads Isaiah 58:8. Everyone slowly rises from a crouch, arms spreading like sunrise.

  7. 🌱💧 Like a watered garden that never runs dry

    The Lord promises to guide you continually, to fill your soul even in dry times, and to make you like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails. You’ll even be called the repairer of the breach: someone who fixes what’s broken.

    🎬 Everyone becomes a garden: grow tall, stretch like branches, and sway. The Hungry Neighbor stands up and joins the garden.

Key verse

Isaiah 58:6 ↗
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?”
In plain words: This is the kind of fast I want: break the chains that hold people down, lift heavy loads off them, set people free, and smash everything that traps them.
🙌 “Is not this the fast that I have chosen?” = hand on chin, eyebrows up · “loose the bands of wickedness” = pull your wrists apart like breaking a chain · “undo the heavy burdens” = lift an invisible load off your shoulders · “let the oppressed go free” = open your hands like releasing a bird · “break every yoke” = snap an invisible stick over your knee.

More verses

Isaiah 58:11 ↗
“And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”
In plain words: The Lord will guide you all the time, fill you up even in dry, hard times, and make you like a garden that never runs out of water.
Isaiah 58:13 ↗
“If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable”
In plain words: If you make Sunday about the Lord instead of just what you feel like doing, and call it a delight, He will bless you with joy.
Isaiah 61:3 ↗
“To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness”
In plain words: Jesus Christ trades our ashes for beauty, our sadness for joy, and our heavy spirits for praise.
Isaiah 60:1 ↗
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.”
In plain words: Get up and shine! Your light has come, and the Lord’s glory is shining on you.

Forehead Guess words18 words

  • 📣 Isaiah
  • 🍽️ Fasting
  • 🧾 Fast offering
  • 🧑‍💼 Bishop
  • 🤝 Deacon
  • 😤 Hangry
  • 🌾 Bulrush
  • 👕 Sackcloth
  • 🐂 Yoke
  • 🌱 Watered garden
  • 📅 Sabbath
  • 😄 Delight
  • 🏘️ Nazareth
  • 📜 Scroll
  • 🌸 Beauty for ashes
  • 🌅 Arise, shine
  • 🐺 Wolf and lamb
  • 🕊️ Millennium
Clues for each word
  • Isaiah: Told to lift up his voice like a trumpet
  • Fasting: Going without food to draw close to God
  • Fast offering: Money given to help people in need
  • Bishop: Uses fast offerings to help ward members
  • Deacon: May help gather fast offerings
  • Hangry: Hungry plus angry
  • Bulrush: A drooping reed; a show-off fast
  • Sackcloth: Scratchy clothes worn to look sorry
  • Yoke: Wooden harness; the Lord says break every one
  • Watered garden: What you become when you fast His way
  • Sabbath: The Lord’s holy day
  • Delight: What Isaiah says to call the Sabbath
  • Nazareth: Jesus’s hometown, where He read Isaiah 61
  • Scroll: What Jesus was handed in the synagogue
  • Beauty for ashes: What the Savior gives those who mourn
  • Arise, shine: Isaiah 60:1: your light is come
  • Wolf and lamb: Feed together in the new earth
  • Millennium: Christ’s thousand-year reign of peace
▶ Play Forehead GuessFull screen, 60-second timer, works on any phone.

Scripture Showdown9 questions

  1. What did the people in Isaiah 58:3 complain about?
    • A. The food was bad
    • B. God didn’t notice their fasting
    • C. It rained too much
    Show answer

    ✅ B. God didn’t notice their fasting They felt they’d done their part. The Lord showed them what they’d missed.

  2. What were they still doing on their fast days?
    • A. Fighting and pushing their workers
    • B. Feeding the poor
    • C. Reading scriptures
    Show answer

    ✅ A. Fighting and pushing their workers Isaiah 58:3–4. You can’t fast that way and expect to be heard on high.

  3. A fake fast bows the head like a what?
    • A. sunflower
    • B. donkey
    • C. bulrush
    Show answer

    ✅ C. bulrush Isaiah 58:5. A drooping reed: looking miserable to be seen.

  4. Which is part of the fast the Lord has chosen?
    • A. Complaining loudly
    • B. Sharing bread with the hungry
    • C. Skipping church
    Show answer

    ✅ B. Sharing bread with the hungry Isaiah 58:7. Fasting points outward, to people in need.

  5. When you call, Isaiah 58:9 says the Lord will answer…
    • A. “Here I am”
    • B. “Not now”
    • C. “Try again later”
    Show answer

    ✅ A. “Here I am” One of many promises to those who fast His way.

  6. Isaiah 58:11 says you’ll be like a…
    • A. mighty oak
    • B. desert rock
    • C. watered garden
    Show answer

    ✅ C. watered garden A spring whose waters fail not, even in drought.

  7. What does a fast offering usually equal, at least?
    • A. One dollar
    • B. The cost of the skipped meals
    • C. A tenth of your income
    Show answer

    ✅ B. The cost of the skipped meals At least what the meals would have cost, and more if you can. A tenth is tithing.

  8. Where did Jesus read Isaiah 61 and say it was fulfilled?
    • A. Nazareth
    • B. Babylon
    • C. Rome
    Show answer

    ✅ A. Nazareth Luke 4:16–21, in the synagogue of His hometown.

  9. What does Isaiah 58:13 say to call the Sabbath?
    • A. A rest stop
    • B. A delight
    • C. A duty
    Show answer

    ✅ B. A delight When we focus on the Lord, the Sabbath becomes a joy.

▶ Play Scripture ShowdownTeams take turns on one screen.

From general conference

“Part of your fast offering and mine this month will be used to help someone, somewhere, whose relief the Lord will feel as if it were His own.”

— President Henry B. Eyring, ““Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?”,” April 2015

Read it at the end of Where Does It Go?, right after Isaiah 58:7.

Read the talk ↗

Songs

  • Did You Think to Pray? Hymns, no. 140

    Fasting and prayer go together. A good opener before the Hangry Scale. Find it ↗

  • Redeemer of Israel Hymns, no. 6

    Isaiah 59–63 keeps calling the Lord our Redeemer. Sing it after “Beauty for Ashes.” Find it ↗

This week’s challenge

Plan a Real Fast

Before your ward’s next fast Sunday, talk with your parents about how long you’ll fast, pick one person or problem to fast for, and plan your own fast offering, even a small one. This Sunday, try one Sabbath delight experiment: do one thing that helps you feel close to the Lord and notice how the day feels.

Text the parents

This week we studied Isaiah 58–66. We acted out a “hangry fast” where people complained God didn’t notice their fasting, learned the fast the Lord actually wants (lifting burdens and feeding the hungry), talked about where fast offerings go, and debated what makes the Sabbath a delight. Ask your youth: what did they decide about Sunday activities, and who might they fast for next fast Sunday?

📝 After class

What worked? Who needs a check-in this week? Jot it here on a printed copy, or in the app’s private class notes.

Got extra time?

🔦 Arise, Shine · 3 min

  1. Turn the lights off. Read Isaiah 60:1–3 by flashlight (or a phone light).
  2. Ask: “How is the gospel like light in a dark room? Who has been a light for you?”
  3. Pass the light to each youth, who names one way they can shine this week without being preachy.

🐺 New Heaven, New Earth · 4 min

  1. Read Isaiah 65:17–25 together. Pairs list everything that will be different when the Savior reigns.
  2. Ask: “Which change are you most excited for? Which one surprises you?”
  3. Ask: “What can we do now to get ready for the Savior’s Second Coming?”

📦 Sabbath Delights Box · 3 min

  1. Each youth writes one Sunday activity they genuinely enjoy that helps them feel close to the Lord on a slip of paper.
  2. Put the slips in a box. Pull and read a few aloud.
  3. Invite everyone to take a picture of the list and try one idea they’ve never tried.

Sources

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version, the Bible used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tap or click a reference to open it in Gospel Library. Start with the official Come, Follow Me manual; these ideas are here to help it come alive.

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