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Before the lesson, allow a small amount of clay or play dough to harden. Read “Scriptures and Bullies” and discuss the important role that the Holy Ghost had in helping the girl know how to help Mike (September 2009 Friend). Give a family member some fresh clay. Pick a shape or object for him or her to mold the clay into. Next, give someone the hardened clay and ask him or her to mold it into the same shape. Talk about how we need to be “moldable” so the Holy Ghost can direct us to do Heavenly Father’s work.
Scriptures and Bullies:
Look up the following scriptures: Psalm 94:16; Luke 12:12; 2 Nephi 8:7. Circle the one you think fits the story best.
“Hey, Mike,” Chris said in a loud whisper. “Good thing Mr. Morton didn’t call on you!”
“Yeah,” another boy said. “Mike would never have known the answer.”
“You’ve got that right,” Chris replied. “The only thing small about Mike is his brain!”
Behind
me, Mike tried to laugh. I peeked over my shoulder. His face was bright
red. Mr. Morton kept writing on the board as if he hadn’t heard a
thing.
This
was my first week in seventh grade, and the boys picking on Mike were
probably two years older than me. Mike was taller than all of us, and he
wouldn’t want my help anyway, I reasoned. But as the teasing continued,
I thought I was going to cry.
After
school, I kept thinking of all the mean things the boys had said. “If I
were Mike, I wouldn’t come to school at all,” I decided. I felt sad for
the way he had tried to joke with the bullies, only to have them make
fun of whatever he said. “If I were older, I would have known what to
say to them,” I thought.
Then
I remembered a family home evening about how missionaries depend on the
Holy Ghost to help them know how to teach people. Dad said if we read
the scriptures and invite the Holy Ghost to help us, we can know what to
say and do too—even at school.
The
next morning, I read my scriptures and prayed. “Heavenly Father,” I
said, “I feel so sad for Mike. Please help me to know how I can help
him.”
One of the scriptures I read said that when we help other people, we’re actually helping Jesus Christ (see Mosiah 2:17). “I wouldn’t be too scared to talk to the bullies if they were picking on the Savior,” I thought.
I
wrote that scripture on a note card and put it in my notebook. I read
it often during the day, but I still didn’t know how I could stop the
teasing.
Then
one afternoon, as I left math class, my answer came. The Holy Ghost
whispered, “Mike needs to know you care about him, and the bullies need
to know you don’t like what’s going on.” My hands felt clammy. My legs
started to shake. I bit my lip and said a silent prayer.
A
minute later in the hall, I heard Chris yell a mean comment to Mike. I
took a deep breath. “Hey, Chris,” I said, “If you can’t say something
nice, just be quiet.”
Chris gave me a mean look. “Boy, that sounded silly,” I told myself. But the bullies didn’t say anything else to Mike.
The
next day, the boys were back to their regular teasing—until another
seventh grader interrupted them. “Come on, guys,” David said. And the
teasing stopped.
Another
day, it was a ninth-grade girl who stopped the bullies. “That’s not
nice, Chris,” Rhoda said. Mike gave her a grateful smile.
I’d
like to say that was the end of the teasing. It wasn’t. But the bullies
seemed to make mean jokes less often. Other students stood up for Mike
too. I knew that the Holy Ghost had given me courage to do what I needed
to do to help stop the bullies.
Look
around you for someone who is kind—someone who reminds you of what you
think the Savior is like. Watch the things this person does, the way he
or she treats other people. … Then, as you treat others kindly and try
to do what Jesus would want you to do, you will be filled with that
love.
Elder Paul V. Johnson of the Seventy
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