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“Live Up to Your Privileges” by Sister Emily Belle Freeman is a General Conference talk waiting to be discussed in your home and church classes. If you’re teaching this message, scroll down for some discussion questions and teaching ideas to get the ball rolling.

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Discussion Questions

Some questions to help you dive into this talk with your family and church class.

Have you ever had a moment where a priesthood ordinance brought you unexpected peace or clarity? What did you learn in that moment?
How do you personally prepare for the sacrament to make it more meaningful?
Can you share an experience when keeping your covenants gave you strength during a difficult time?
What does it mean to you to “live up to your privileges” as a covenant son or daughter of God?
How can we better understand the ordinances we participate in? What has helped you gain more clarity?
What are some ways you strive to make temple attendance a more meaningful part of your life?
What lessons can we learn from Doctrine & Covenants 25 about Emma’s role and how they apply to us today? In what ways do the teachings in Doctrine and Covenants 25 reflect the Lord’s love for His daughters? What does it mean to you to be an “elect lady” or to live as an “elect son” of God?
How do the examples of Emma and Joseph Smith help us appreciate the restoration of priesthood keys and ordinances?
How can we help the young women in our lives understand the blessings of the priesthood better?
What are some specific ways you have noticed divine guidance in your life thanks to the covenant power given to you through priesthood ordinances and your obedience?
In what ways has keeping your covenants transformed your relationship with God?
What are small, practical ways to draw upon heaven’s help daily?
In what ways does prayer and scripture study deepen our connection to priesthood power?
How can we better understand the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthood ordinances, the covenant promises we make, and the power of God we can access through those ordinances? What are some good study resources or ways we can approach our study?
What are some ways we can teach children and youth about the connection between ordinances, our obedience to the covenants we make, and God’s power?

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Teaching Ideas

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Write D&C 84:20 on the board then start with an object lesson using a flashlight and some batteries. The flashlight can represent the ordinances and the batteries reflect our willingness to keep the covenants we make. As we participate in ordinances and keep our covenants, we create light or God’s power. What are some other meanings you can see in this object lesson? How can partaking of the sacrament each week increase God’s power in our lives? In what way is the power of God manifest in the ordinances?
Split into groups or individual study and read D&C 25 again as Sister Freeman did. What additional insights do you see this time? What are some things Sister Freeman pointed out? Do her insights help you make additional connections? What blessings did you gain as you studied it when President Russell M. Nelson invited us a few years back? What are some of the things required of each of us to access God’s power as stated in D&C 25? How can we be like Emma and not just stare out the window and wonder but act?
Sing or listen to some hymns Emma Smith helped compile or some from the new hymn book. Thumb through some we sing before we partake of the sacrament, sing ones that talk about blessings from the covenants we make in the temple like “Families Can Be Together Forever”, etc. How does singing a hymn each week before the sacrament help you prepare? What truths can we learn from these hymns? How might we use them to help us live up to our privilieges?