Life Preparation Lessons: Free Openers, Review Games and Send-Home Cards for Seminary

Seminary teachers already know the scripture lessons are only part of the year. About twice a week, the 2027 New Testament seminary manual sets the scripture block aside for a Life Preparation lesson: finding answers to questions, setting goals, managing money, preparing for a mission or the temple. They're some of the most practical lessons you'll teach, and some of the hardest to open well at 6:30 in the morning.

Life Preparation Lessons gives you a few minutes of help for each one. Enter the lesson number from your pacing guide, and you get an opener, a review game and a send-home card for that lesson.

Teach from the manual first

These activities support the Church's lessons. They don't replace them. Every lesson page links straight to that lesson in the New Testament Seminary Teacher Manual, and the activities take only a few minutes at the start or end of class. A few lessons have no Weak Things activities at all and link straight to the Church's own resources.

Three pieces for every lesson

• Open class (2–4 minutes): a quick game or question that sets up the lesson's main idea, using the lesson's own scenarios and scriptures.
• Review (about 5 minutes): students vote or post on their phones with a room code, or you play it on the projector only. No names or accounts.
• Send home: a picture card with a verse, a question and a next step, ready to paste into your class chat so parents can see what was taught.

A look at Lesson 179: Managing Financial Resources Wisely

Lesson 179 helps students apply the Savior's teachings to money. Here's what you get:

• Opener, Joseph's Storehouse: a class game across eight years of plenty and famine with one shared storehouse. The class decides how much to put toward tithing, saving, helping and spending, and sees the debt that follows if the storehouse runs dry. It tracks choices, not blessings. Tithing is shown as faithfulness, never as a way to earn money.
• Review, My Financial Guidebook: the lesson's six passages, from Malachi 3, Matthew 6, Luke 12, 1 Timothy 6, Jacob 2 and D&C 104, matched to the truths they teach.
• Category review: a Self-Reliance Check-In for Lessons 177–180, built from the manual's Assess Your Learning ideas.
• Send home, “Count the cost”: Luke 14:28, a question about a goal students will need to plan and save for, and a link to the free illustrated story The Rich Fool.

All ten categories

The lessons follow the manual's numbering, from Lesson 161 to Lesson 208, grouped into the manual's ten categories:

• Doctrinal Mastery: Finding Answers to My Questions
• Scripture Study Skills
• For the Strength of Youth
• Building Self-Reliance
• Physical Health and Emotional Health
• Preparing for Future Education and Employment
• Succeeding in School
• Missionary Preparation
• Temple Preparation
• Teachings of Church Leaders

Each category also has a review you can use after its last lesson.

Why lesson numbers instead of dates

Every seminary moves at its own pace. Snow days, stake conference and school schedules mean two classes in the same building can be weeks apart. So the Life Prep pages are organized by lesson number, not by week. Whatever your coordinator's pacing guide says, type that number and go.

Pair it with the weekly games

On scripture days, Seminary Showdown and Scripturdle for seminary give you a five-minute review and a daily warm-up that follow the Come, Follow Me schedule. All of it lives on the Seminary page.

Questions

Do students need an account?

No. Students join with the room code on your screen. There are no names or sign-ins.

Can I use it with only a projector?

Yes. Every review can be played on the projector alone if phones aren't allowed in your class.

Is this an official seminary resource?

No. Weak Things is not made, approved or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lesson numbers and titles follow the New Testament Seminary Teacher Manual (2027).

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