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Overcoming Discouragement

Instructions: Look at the names of the Prophets below (you are also included at the bottom of the list) and state two things about each: what cause(s) of discouragement did they encounter and how they overcame it. Here are some related scriptures:

Joshua 1:9 - Proverbs 3:5-6 - Alma 26:27 - D&C 61:36
D&C 68:6 - D&C 121:7-8 and 2 Nephi 4:30

Noah
Joseph Smith
Spencer W. Kimball
Moses
Jeremiah
Enoch
Nephi
You

Discouragement Overcoming

I think this would be a great activity for a family home evening. For one, because lots of people encounter discouragement and when they do, often the world seems to revolve around them as the only person who is having trouble, just because it is so big in their world at the time. This seems to occur especially in teenagers. When you can see and hear about others that went through similar things or worse things than you, then helps to get over yourself and get out of it.

I think looking at prophets and how they overcame discouragement is especially beneficial because many times we assume that prophets had perfect lives or something, and that even if they had trials, then they probably had no problem overcoming them. In reality a simple reading of scriptures would tell us that their lives were and are anything BUT easy, and they do and did have weaknesses and many trials just like us, that must have been just as difficult to overcome.

Overcoming Discouragement Studies Doctrine Mormon

This is a cool lesson and I also know now what I am sharing in my next fhe when it is my turn!