Living the Gospel Half-way

I taught Lesson #1 of the George Albert Smith manual  in Relief Society on Sunday, and we were talking about really living our religion.

As an introduction, I asked one sister to leave the room and three sisters to come to the front.  I showed the three sisters a list of three requests:

(1) Singing Happy Birthday

(2) Drawing a picture of a clock on the chalkboard

(3) Cracking an egg into a glass

Then I told them we would bring in the sister from the hallway, and she would ask them to perform one of these tasks.

They were instructed to only do it HALF-way.

It was so fun.

One sister sang just the first line and a half of Happy Birthday.  Another sister drew a "C"-shaped clock with just 12, 11, 10 . . . 6 on it and one hand, and the final sister cracked the egg/separating out the white.

I then asked the sister who'd left the room how she felt when her requests were only done half-way, and she said it just didn't feel complete, and she was kind of disappointed.

Then I asked the class if they'd ever asked their children to do something--and only had it done half-way.  Everyone laughed, and one sister called out, "The bathrooms!"

We then started talking about how the Lord must feel when WE only obey Him half-way.  Our goal is to be absolute and complete in how we follow Him.