Ideas for Encouraging Personal and Family Study

Your first purpose as a Sunday School teacher is to encourage class members to study the word of God individually and as families. The following are some ideas to help you do this:

• Invite class members to share recent experiences they have had as they studied the scriptures individually and with their families.

• Ask class members to share what they are doing to make personal or family scripture study more meaningful. (Some ideas can be found under “Improving Personal Study” and “Ideas for Family Learning” in Come, Follow Me for individuals and families.)

• Invite class members to share how they have acted on impressions they received during a previous class or during their study of the scriptures.

• Spend a few minutes showing class members some of the resources provided by the Church to help members study the gospel, such as scripture study helps found at scriptures.lds.org; “Scripture Stories” found at children.lds.org; youth.lds.org; seminary and institute manuals; videos, audio recordings, and images (lds.org/media-library).

• Spend a few minutes sharing how to use the Gospel Library app to study the scriptures, including how to mark verses and record impressions.

• Invite one or more class members to explain how they teach a specific gospel principle in their families.