Doctrine and Covenants Seminary Teacher Manual

Contents
Title Page
Introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants Seminary Teacher Manual
Doctrine and Covenants Lessons
- The Restoration Proclamation
- Doctrine and Covenants 1
- Joseph Smith—History 1:1–26
- Doctrine and Covenants 2; Joseph Smith—History 1:27–65
- Doctrine and Covenants 3–5
- Doctrine and Covenants 6–9
- Doctrine and Covenants 10–11
- Doctrine and Covenants 12–17; Joseph Smith—History 1:66–75
- Doctrine and Covenants 18
- Doctrine and Covenants 19
- Doctrine and Covenants 20–22
- Doctrine and Covenants 23–26
- Doctrine and Covenants 27–28
- Doctrine and Covenants 29
- Doctrine and Covenants 30–36
- Doctrine and Covenants 37–40
- Doctrine and Covenants 41–44
- Doctrine and Covenants 45
- Doctrine and Covenants 46–48
- Doctrine and Covenants 49–50
- Doctrine and Covenants 51–57
- Doctrine and Covenants 58–59
- Doctrine and Covenants 60–63
- Doctrine and Covenants 64–66
- Doctrine and Covenants 67–70
- Doctrine and Covenants 71–75
- Doctrine and Covenants 76
- Doctrine and Covenants 77–80
- Doctrine and Covenants 81–83
- Doctrine and Covenants 84
- Doctrine and Covenants 85–87
- Doctrine and Covenants 88
- Doctrine and Covenants 89–92
- Doctrine and Covenants 93
- Doctrine and Covenants 94–97
- Doctrine and Covenants 98–101
- Doctrine and Covenants 102–105
- Doctrine and Covenants 106–108
- Doctrine and Covenants 109–110
- Doctrine and Covenants 111–114
- Doctrine and Covenants 115–120
- Doctrine and Covenants 121–123
- Doctrine and Covenants 124
- Doctrine and Covenants 125–128
- Doctrine and Covenants 129–132
- Doctrine and Covenants 133–134
- Doctrine and Covenants 135–136
- Doctrine and Covenants 137–138
- The Articles of Faith and Official Declarations 1 and 2
- The Family: A Proclamation to the World
- The Living Christ
Life Preparation Lessons
- Doctrinal Mastery: Finding Answers to My Questions
- Scripture Study Skills
- For the Strength of Youth: Making Choices
- Building Self-Reliance
- Physical and Emotional Health
- Preparing for Future Education and Employment
- Succeeding in School
- Missionary Preparation
- Temple Preparation
- Teachings of Church Leaders
Appendix

Lesson 127—Assess Your Learning 8: Doctrine and Covenants 95–115

“Lesson 127—Assess Your Learning 8: Doctrine and Covenants 95–115,” Doctrine and Covenants Seminary Teacher Manual (2025)

“Assess Your Learning 8,” Doctrine and Covenants Seminary Teacher Manual

Lesson 127: Doctrine and Covenants 111–115

Assess Your Learning 8

Doctrine and Covenants 95–115

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stacked stones

Reflecting on and assessing our spiritual learning can help us draw closer to the Savior. This lesson can help students remember and evaluate how their experiences studying the Doctrine and Covenants have helped them grow spiritually.

Possible Learning Activities

Assess your spiritual progress

Bring several rocks of different sizes to class, and have students create a trail marker. Invite students to stack a few rocks and to look for what creates a stable foundation. (Alternatively, show an image of a trail marker.) You might mention that anciently and today, these trail markers provide safety and direction to travelers. You could ask the following questions about the activity.

What are some different trail markers Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have provided to guide us along the covenant path back to Their presence?
How can a trail marker be a symbol of the Savior?

Help students recognize that the scripture passages they have studied, lessons they have learned, and teachings they have applied in their study of the Doctrine and Covenants can be like the stones stacked together, providing safety and direction as they travel along the covenant path. Invite students to review their notes taken and scriptures studied over the last few weeks (Doctrine and Covenants 95–115), pondering the truths they have learned.

As you reflect on your experience studying the Doctrine and Covenants, prayerfully invite the Spirit to help you recognize the progress you are making toward your Heavenly Father and your Savior, Jesus Christ.

Display the following questions to help students reflect on their spiritual progress. Invite students to answer two or more of the questions in their study journals.

What are some of the spiritual truths you have learned or applied that have helped you feel closer to the Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ?
How have these truths given you direction and safety along the covenant path?
What scripture passages from the Doctrine and Covenants have been meaningful to you? Why?

When students have had sufficient time to record their responses, invite a few volunteers to share reflections that are not too personal. They could share the scripture passages that were meaningful to them and why. As students share, they could add stones to the trail marker.

Consider the promptings of the Spirit and needs of your students as you select which of the following activities to use.

Explain how the Savior’s priesthood and priesthood keys bless His Church

Help students assess what they have learned recently about the Savior’s priesthood and priesthood keys. In their study of Lesson 119: Doctrine and Covenants 107:1–20, students may have learned that those who serve in the Church can draw upon the Savior’s power through His priesthood. In their study of Doctrine and Covenants 110, Part 2, students may have learned about the restoration of priesthood keys to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple.

You could share the following scenario. In writing their responses, students could review notes they have taken in their journals or scriptures they have marked.

Becky and Michael are siblings who recently joined the Church. They are the only members in their family. They both have strong testimonies of the Book of Mormon, the Prophet Joseph Smith, and the restored Church of Jesus Christ, but recognize they still have more to learn. In church one Sunday, they heard someone talking about how the Savior’s priesthood and priesthood keys bless every member of the Church. They didn’t really know what that meant.

What could you use from your recent study in the Doctrine and Covenants to help Becky and Michael better understand how the Savior’s priesthood power and priesthood keys bless us as members of the Church?

If students need help, you may want to redraw on the board the tree from Lesson 119: Doctrine and Covenants 107:1–20 and label the branches with various organizations in the Church. Students could share that men and women who receive callings in the Church draw power from the Savior to serve others in His Church. As part of their explanations, students might use verses from section 107 to illustrate that all authorities and offices in the Savior’s Church are appendages to the Melchizedek Priesthood. Some verses they might use could include verses 5, 8, 14, 18–20, or other verses of their choosing to teach this.

Alternatively, you could display images of the visits of Moses, Elias, and Elijah in the Kirtland Temple, described in Doctrine and Covenants 110. Invite students to share who these visitors were and what keys they restored. Encourage them to use verses from section 110 in their explanations.

Feel greater confidence that the Apostles are special witnesses of Jesus Christ

In a recent lesson, students may have learned how the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world (see Doctrine and Covenants 107:23). Provide students with an opportunity to reflect on their testimony that the prophets and apostles are special witnesses of Christ in our day and are charged by Jesus Christ to help us draw closer to Him.

One way to do this could be to display a recent picture of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and ask the following question. You could give students time to ponder and record their thoughts in their study journals. After some time, allow a few willing students to share.

What have you done recently that has impacted your testimony that the prophets and apostles really are special witnesses of Christ?

If you feel that students could use an additional activity to increase their confidence that the prophets and apostles are special witnesses of Christ, you could invite them to do one of the following activities:
Select a recent message from the First Presidency or the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that was meaningful to you. Reflect on how that message influenced your feelings about Jesus Christ.
Respond to a social media invitation of one of the members of the First Presidency or the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Share the invitation on your social media page.
On social media, reply to a post or send a direct message to a member of the First Presidency or the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles expressing your gratitude for a recent message that helped you feel closer to the Savior, Jesus Christ.

After adequate time, a few students could share what they wrote or posted with the class.

Prepare to worship the Lord in the temple

In previous lessons, students had opportunities to prepare to worship the Lord in His temple. Here are some summaries of recent lessons that helped with this:

In section 95, students might have discussed making sacrifices to worship in the temple.
In section 97, they might have reviewed how the temple recommend questions help us become pure in heart.
In section 109, students discovered blessings associated with temple worship and considered how these blessings might motivate them in their lives.
In section 110, students may have discussed how their worthiness can help them feel close to the Lord in His temple (see Doctrine and Covenants 110:5–10).

Invite students to review specific goals or plans they have made to help them prepare to worship Him in His temple.

What recent efforts have you made to be better prepared to worship the Lord in the temple?

If students would benefit from more specific questions that follow up on plans or goals they may have been working on, you might display the following text for students and have them respond in their study journals.

Seek personal revelation to guide you as you answer one or more of the following questions in your study journal:

What sacrifices have you made or are willing to make to demonstrate that worshipping the Lord in the temple is a priority in your life?
What blessings have you seen in your life as you have reflected on your answers to the temple recommend questions in preparation to enter the house of the Lord?
What have you done to strive to be worthy to worship the Lord in the temple?

Think about how you have been blessed for your efforts. What will you continue doing or start doing to be better prepared to worship in His temple?

Encourage students to act on any changes they have felt prompted to make as they have reviewed their progress. You could praise students’ efforts to make Heavenly Father, our Savior, and the gospel a priority in their lives. You might conclude by sharing an example of blessings you have received from your preparations to worship the Savior in His temple.