The Good Samaritan - Serving Others

The Good Samaritan

Lesson

For Hero Hour today, I taught the parable of the Good Samaritan from the New Testament (Luke 10:29-37) in my own words. I explained how the Samaritan didn't know the man he found on the road but he helped him nonetheless. We discussed how helping others makes us feel good and the person we're serving too. I referenced Mosiah 2:17 and said, when we serve each other we are really serving Heavenly Father. 

We talked about ways that we have served in the last couple of days and about how when the kids help me with things around the house they are serving me. I told them that we show our love for others when we do things for them. 

 

I asked Benson if he remembered a time he served someone else and he told me about how we took cookies to his friend Chloe's Mom yesterday because she was sick.

 Activity/Craft

I printed a coloring page of the Good Samaritan off www.lds.org and let the Little Macs color to their hearts' content.

After they finished coloring we read one of my favorite books, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

 

 

We talked about how the tree gave everything it had to make the boy happy.   

Treat

I had to make cookies for our Relief Society activity on Thursday so I made extra so we could have some for Hero Hour. 

Don't make Hero Hour harder than it has to be. Use what you have in your house or if you want, go crazy and find something really creative to teach, create, or eat for your Hero Hour off Pinterest. Whatever you do, make sure you let the Spirit guide you.
In the future I'll use heroes/doctrine from the Book of Mormon and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Church History but also plenty of Bible heroes/doctrine. If you are not a member of the LDS Church, don't let that deter you from starting your own Hero Hour. Find heroes/doctrine in the scriptures you're familiar with.

Love, Sue