Every year, the Seminary students are taught 25 "Scripture Mastery" scriptures. By knowing and understanding these scriptures, and knowing where to find them, the students are then able to draw upon those scriptures as they prepare lessons, or talks later in life. Many of these scriptures have deep personal meaning to the students as the principles taught begin to shape their lives.
At the end of the school year, we held a "Scripture Chase" with the full-time missionaries. In the demonstration match held with two of the missionaries vs. the seminary class, it became obvious that the missionaries were formidable opponents! The missionaries were given brand-new, unmarked scriptures... the students had marked their scriptures, crumpled their pages, color coded the edges of the pages, along with a few "cheat sheets", I'm sure... but were soundly defeated by the missionaries...
The students worked hard over the next few weeks to be in better shape for the live competition... (the theme song from Rocky has suddenly entered my head...)!
They also got together to work on a few strategies... mostly legal.. to give them an edge in the competition....
PLUS...
For the live event, we threw in a few twists to make it a little more competitive
Sister Sheppard explaining the rules...
Missionaries vs. Seminary Class
The most intense we'd seen them all year!
The missionaries seem more relaxed, don't you think?
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Don't miss the exciting conclusion in my next post!!
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Rocky II theme Music ...
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