I Will Follow God's Plan (Missionary Moments)

As you know, Senior Primary is very different from Jr. Primary.  These older kids need to be challenged. Sometimes I like to challenge them musically, but sometimes I just want to talk in depth about the gospel message in a song.  I Will Follow God's Plan is the perfect song for a gospel discussion.  

So I created 6 scenarios and printed them out and rolled them up tightly and put them in balloons.  I am choosing kids to come up and pop a balloon any way they wish and then they get to "take advantage of a missionary moment".  

We are focusing on making statements of what we believe - not trying to convince another person that they have to believe us.  The sentence can start with "I believe. . . " or "My church teaches us . . .".

Here are my scenarios.  You could create your own easily.

A friend at school is mad at his parents and he says to you, "I never asked to be born!" Did we humans have any choice about coming down to earth?

Another friend is not happy with how her life is going.  She lives in a home where there is not a whole lot of love and caring.  She says "Why did I have to be born to this family?"  What could you say to her that would show you believe our life is a gift from God?  How is life a gift?  

Another friend - friends give us lots of opportunities to share the gospel, don't they.  This friend just doesn't know what to do with his life.  Spends most of his time just playing video games or watching TV.  What could you say to him that shows him that what we do with our life is important.  What does it mean if someone says in the gospel sense "My life has a plan".  

You are watching a movie with a friend and the main character in the movie says that it doesn't matter what you do because there is no purpose at all to human life.  What will you say to your friend?  Will you let him just believe what that actor said?  What is the purpose of life on earth? 

You are talking to an aunt who is not a member of the church.  She says to you "I remember when you were born.  One minute there was no ______________ and then all of a sudden there you were!"  What could you say to her to let her know what the gospel teaches us about when and where our life really began?  When and where did human life begin?    

You have a church friend who's house just burned down in a terrible fire.  He is the kind of friend who you've always been able to say anything to.  But now he is wondering what bad things like this happen especially when you've been trying your best to live the Gospel.  What could you say to him about the fact that we all chose to come down to earth that might help him accept this disaster in his life?  Why do you think we wanted to come down to earth?