Comments on: Hot Cinnamon Lips

By: Melissa M.

Melissa M. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:39:36 +0000

Love that object lesson, Emily. Think I’ll use it for FHE.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:28:27 +0000

My husband did an object lesson in Family Home Evening with our young kids. The lesson was obey your parents. He made some cookies with the kids, but he told them they didn’t have to obey some dumb recipe, they could do whatever they liked! He filled the counter with every kind of ingredient imaginable: floor, sugar and eggs, but also red pepper, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. He put in a few ingredients to make sure they would turn out like cookies, then let the kids add whatever they wanted. They actually added a cup of salt!
While these “cookies” were baking he told the kids they would make some more cookies, this time following the recipe. He emphasized that this way took more time, more effort, and wasn’t exactly what they wanted to do.
We have a hilarious home video of the kids tasting the cookies that were made “just the way they wanted!” After the kids spit out these gross cookies, he gave them a real cookie and emphasized that following what Mom and Dad say may be harder and more annoying, but will turn out better in the end.

By: Melissa M.

Melissa M. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:25:28 +0000

I just have to share one more chastity object lesson that I heard about just today. My daughter (in a BYU ward) said that their high councilman spoke about virtue today and told the congregation that when his wife teaches about chastity, she makes a big creamy vanilla milkshake, shows it to the YW, then puts a dead fly in it and blends it up again, and asks them who would like to taste it. I guess the high councilman didn’t read this post.

By: AP

AP — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:38:52 +0000

I once heard a story about a civilization that was told by their loving maker they could come back to him when they died as long as they didn’t eat chocolate cake or wear red dresses. There was a tempter who was cleaver and introduced things like chocolate chip cookies and white cake to get them used to the idea of chocolate and cake. The tempter also showed movie stars in pink dresses and dresses with just a bit of red in them to make that seem appealing and to make the step of eating chocolate cake or wearing red dresses small. Does anyone else know that story? Does anyone know where I can get a copy of it? I thought it was really cleaver.

By: CR

CR — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:21:14 +0000

My favorite object lesson is on peer pressure. I brought cheyenne pepper to class and put 1/4 tsp. is a cup with some water and drank it. I told the class that if they did the same I would give them a cookie. Usually, some of the boys will be tough and start. There are some who won’t follow and don’t care about the cookie reward. After everyone who wants to drink the cheyenne pepper has had a chance, I talk about peer pressure and how they would not normally drink spicy liquid just for a cookie. I gave the other kids a cookie also.

This can lead to another lesson — repentance is the cheyenne pepper water — it is hard and it burns for a while, but after, you have a warm feeling (in your stomach) from the process.

By: april

april — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:30:09 +0000

My “favorite” object lesson was from girls camp one year. The had us go on a midnight hike with candles. Along the way, there were leaders next to various signs beckoning us to come up to them. The first sign said “disobey parents” so we walked over to them thinking they were going to talk to us about that, intead they blew out our candles and we had to walk on in darkness. The next station said something good like “pray daily” and they re-lit our candles.
It didn’t take long for us to figure out we should avoid the “temptation/sin” stations, but since we were obnoxious, we went up to each of them (and since no other leaders except the first set had gotten to blow out candles, I think they were excited to have succeeded in tempting us) but when we got there, we hid out candles behind our back and mockingly blew at them, while they futilely tried to get to our candles.
We thought we were hilarious.

By: Shauna

Shauna — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:15:15 +0000

One year at a Youth Conference we had a concluding fireside in the chapel and a high council member placed a chainsaw up on the stand. Then he proceeded to tell us that a chainsaw was a very powerful and useful tool but it could also be very dangerous. He then showed us that in order to use the chainsaw properly he had to wear the proper protective attire (hard hat, goggles, gloves) and the chainsaw had to be used by someone who knew what they were doing. After this demonstration he tried to tell us that this was like the law of chastity that sex was a good and useful tool but had to be done in the proper way with a proper person. I was a Laurel at the time and I remember laughing with my friends afterward saying, “so what you’re saying is use protection and do it with someone who knows what their doing?” I got his point but I didn’t think it was the most effective way to share that message. I also thought it was a little scary to liken sex to a chainsaw. I’m sure the scare factor was probably intentional. I still laugh thinking about that fireside today.

By: MLE

MLE — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:20:44 +0000

I wanted to share a chastity lesson I had once when I was in YW.

When I was no older than 12 or 13 years old, the Young Women’s gathered all the YW together so that an older girl in the ward could speak to us against having premarital sex.

This girl, who was several years older than us (about 17 or 18), told us the story of how she, a super popular cheerleader at the local high school, dated the super popular quarter back from the rival high school. Their romance was talk of the town and everyone LOVED that the QB and the cheerleader from rival schools got together.

They progressively messed around until they had sex and she got pregnant. She then kept the baby and named it some “super cute” unusual baby name that everyone loved.

I remember thinking — and STILL think — what part of that story was supposed to deter a bunch of Beehives from having sex?? Not only did we not know anything about sex, but the story of a popular cheerleader, a football player, and a baby with the cutest name EVER (lol) sounds like it’d encourage sex if anything at all.

By: Heather F.

Heather F. — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:23:06 +0000

A very effective object lesson for chastity I saw as an adult was a YW leader who made it appear that she was going to start a fire in the YW room. She had wood, newspaper, lighter fluid, and a match. More than a few people were nervous! Then she talked about how beneficial fire can be for camping, cooking food, keeping warm, etc., but a fire in a building can be completely destructive. The comparison then was to sex and how it is very good and welcome in the appropriate time and place, but it can be devastating when it is out of place. I was impressed with the lesson because it taught that sex is not always “bad”.

By: My opinion « A Stranger Here

My opinion « A Stranger Here — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:51:27 +0000

[...] ruin us forever. (Check out this link for some spectactularly bad object lessons about chastity: http://segullah.org/small-epiphanies/hot-cinnamon-lips/hen ) When I was a senior in high school, I had a very good sex education course. It was done very [...]