Honesty

Songs:	“Truth Reflects upon Our Senses”  (Hymns, #273)
		“Oh Say What is Truth” (Hymns, #272)
		“I Believe in Being Honest” (Children’s Songbook, p. 149)
		“Dare to Do Right” (Children’s Songbook, p. 158)

Scriptures:	Exodus 20:15-26		Alma 27:27
		Psalms 101:7			D&C 42:21
		Proverbs 12:22		D&C 136:20
		2 Nephi 9:34

Lesson:

	Children:	“As Good As Our Bond”   (Friend, November 1997)
			“A Dollar Bill for Billy”   (Friend, May 1983)
			“Matt and Mandy”   (Friend, August 2000)
			“Honesty and the Apples”   (Friend, October 1996)
			“An Honest Boy”  (Friend, March 1987)

	Teens:	“The Message: Basic Concepts of Honesty”   (New Era, February 1978)
			“Arm of Honor”   (New Era, August 2000)
			“The Message: We Believe in Being Honest”   (New Era, September 1983)
			“True. . . or. . .False”   (New Era, September 1978)

	Adults:	“Teaching Children to be Honest”   (Ensign, August 1985)
			“Honesty and Integrity”   (Ensign, June 1971)
			“First Presidency Message: We Believe in Being Honest”   (Ensign, October 1990)
			“This is No Harm”   (Ensign, May 1982)
              
Activity Ideas:	

	1.  Honesty Train, “Sharing Time: Be Honest” (Friend, January 1987)              
	Cut out the locomotive and cars.  Put them in order to spell honesty.  As you put each car in
	place, think of something that you have done or can do that would be an example of the principle
	written on the car.
	
	2.  “Sharing Time: I Believe in Being Honest” (Friend, September 1993)
	Write the letters H,O,N,E,S,T on separate pieces of paper and hide them in the room.  Have 
	family members find them and decide what word they spell.  For each letter, share a story of
	someone whose name beings with that letter and who was honest and true.  H — Helaman (Alma
	56:1-10, 45-48), Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:1, 3-5), Harold B. Lee (Valiant B manual, pages 219-
	220); O— Obadiah (1 Kings 18:3-4); N — Noah (Genesis 6-8), Nephi (1 Nephi 3:7; 1 Nephi
	16:18-26, 30-31); E — Enoch (Moses 7:13), Enos (Enos 1:26, Ezra Taft Benson (Valiant B
	supplement, page 2); S--Samuel (1 Samuel 15:1-28), Spencer W. Kimball (Valiant B manual,
	pages 221-224); T — Timothy (“Timotheus” in Philippians 2:19-22), Teancum (Alma 50:35;
	Alma 51:30-37).

	3.  “Oh What a Tangled Web. . .”
	Draw a spider for each member of your family.  Cut long pieces of string (20 or 30 feet long) and
	tie one end of each piece to the top of a spider.  Tie the opposite end of the string to something in
	your house or backyard.  Then start weaving your spider web around anything and everything you
	can think of.  String it through chair legs, under tables, around trees and branches, through chain
	links, around toys or swing sets. . . Just anywhere.  You’ll want to make it complicated because
	after everyone has made his or her spider web, each person is to switch spiders with someone else
	and start to unwind the web.  It’s a lot of fun trying to make it hard for the next person.

Treat:		Chocolate Spiders
		Ingredients:	packaged covered cupcakes (or make your own)
				String licorice
				Small red hots
		Let each member of the family decorate a spider, as they desire, using a cupcake for the
		spider’s body.  The string licorice is for the legs, and the red hots are for the eyes.