Helaman 5:12

"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." (Helaman 5:12)
 This is a scripture mastery.  I felt it was important for them to really understand why this would be included as one of the 25 scriptures for them to learn this year.

 
We talked about a rock versus sand.  If you built your house upon a rock what would happen to that house in a storm?  Would it remain standing or would it be destroyed?  If you built it upon the sand what would happen? 

We talked about a cobweb versus a steel cable.  A single strand of a steel cable is like a cobweb.  Combine strand after strand and strand and you have a cable that cannot be broken. 

Then we talked about our testimonies and how they are built.  I asked them to ponder and decide it what their testimony is built on...a rock or sand...is it like...a cobweb...or a steel cable.

We talked about the word REMEMBER that is in this scripture.  There are so many scriptures that use the word remember. (Underline everytime you see the word remember in the Book of Mormon)

We played the memory game ~ the one where you have to REMEMBER where they are and match them up.  Then talked about the key to winning the game ~ remembering.  I shared this thought with them by President Spencer W. Kimball:

"When you look into the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is?  It could be remember.  Because all of you have made covenants - you know what to do and you know how to do it - our greatest need is to remember.....Remember is the word.  Remember is the program" ("Circles of Exaltation," p. 8.)

"Remembering covenants prevents apostasy...I suppose there would never be an apostate, there would never be a crime, if people remembered, really remembered, the things they had covenanted at the water's edge or at the sacrament table and in the temple...I guess we as humans are prone to forget.  It is easy to forget.  Our sorrows, our joys, our concrns, our great problems seem to wane to some exten as time goes n, and there are many lessns that we larn which have a tendency to slip from us.  The Nephites forgot." (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, pp 112-113.)

Remembering prevents apostasy.  Remembering keeps us in line with our Heavenly Father! 

I personally will work on that - Remembering my covenants ~ remembering how good Heavenly Father is to me, to my family ~ remembering to be grateful :)