Impromptu Baptism/Birth Lesson in Relief Society

I love being in the Relief Society Presidency of our ward.

The best part?  Not being the President!!  😉

I am responsible for the Sunday meetings.

I make sure the teachers have the help and support they need.  On rare occasions it means I get to do a sudden impromptu lesson when a teacher is not being able to make it at the last minute.

The other Sunday after Sacrament Meeting I got a text from the teacher.  She had the flu!!So I had 30 minutes to prepare a lesson.

Baptism Lesson

I do love to teach.  I also love to prepare, in some ways that is my favorite part of teaching. I learn so much when I am preparing and I feel the spirit.

The lesson was on baptism.  I started reading it and got excited.  The very first section referred to the symbolism between our birth in this life and our rebirth in baptism.  Well you know I love birth.

I looked up some blog posts on The Gift of Giving Life blog, and got the ideas and inspiration I needed to feel good going into the lesson.

However I still felt some hesitation.  Again, I usually practice my lessons at least 2 times before teaching.  No time for that!  So I prayed for help and got the impression that this was the chance to see the power of The Lord’s hand, that He would give me what I need to speak, when I need to speak it.

My Notes

	Birth	Baptism
1 – Preparation	Do you think we prepared in the pre-mortal existence for our earthly birth?  Robyn said, “birth is the crowning event of pre-motal life”	Do we do things to prepare for our baptism?  Yes, we prepare or help our kids prepare.
2 – Blessings	Body, Light of Christ, New Life, Family	Body is cleansed, Holy Ghost, New Life and New Church family
3 – Water, Blood, Spirit	Amniotic Fluid, Blood, Our Spirit joining with our body.  Moses 6:59 Allowing them to bust forth from pre-motal state, bathed in pure water, life giving blood and the Spirit.	Water – BaptismBlood – Atoning Blood of ChristFire – Gift of the Holy Ghost
4 – Who with?	Mother	(typically) Father
5 – Choice	We chose to come to earth.  Imagine we made covenants before we came to earth in this “ordinance” of birth	We choose to get baptized.  Make a covenant in the ordinance.
6 – Sacrifice	Requires Sacrifice of Mother to birth her baby.	Requires Sacrifice of Savior

Baptism and Birth can be Spiritual

I then talked about how when we set our intentions, we can see the spirituality in everything.  I also shared the experience I had at T3’s baptism.

I think that it went pretty well.  I was glad to have all the participation from the Sisters and of course having been about birth, made it easy!