SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

Select 8 or more goals from this category.  These goals help you strengthen your testimony, learn your priesthood duties, and understand the doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 _1.  Identify 4 scriptures that testify of Christ, and talk about them with a parent or priesthood leader.

 _ 2.  Read “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” and “The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles.” Review them with a parent or priesthood leader.

 _ 3.  Recite from memory the Articles of Faith to a parent or a priesthood leader.

 _ 4.  Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:38-60, and talk with a parent or a priesthood leader about the duties of a deacon.

 _ 5.  At least once each year, bear your testimony.

 _ 6.  Read an account of one of your ancestors, or learn about an ancestor from one of your relatives.  Report what you learned in family home evening or in a quorum meeting.

 _ 7.  Complete additional family history work, such as a family group record showing your parents as children with the other members of their families.  Share this information with a parent or a priesthood leader.

 _ 8.  If you do not already have one, start a journal, and write in it regularly for 2 months.

 _ 9.  Set up a plan to be spiritually and financially prepared to go on a mission at age 19.

 _ 10.  Make a list of skills you will need to become a successful missionary.  Talk to a parent or priesthood leader about how you can learn these skills.

 _  11.  Invite at least 2 friends to a Mutual activity, Sunday meeting, or family home evening.

 _ 12.  Write a letter to your parents, your grandparents, or a ward or stake leader.  Thank them for their example and positive influence on you.

 _ 13.  Create your own goal with approval from your parents and Aaronic Priesthood leaders.