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30-minute lesson · Children · Ages 3–11: Primary or home

Heavenly Father Keeps His Promises

From “The Infinite Power of God in Our Covenants,” by Elder Jeremiah J. Morgan · Saturday afternoon session, October 2026 General Conference

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The big idea

Heavenly Father always keeps His promises, and His love can reach me wherever I am.

Objective

Children will be able to say that Heavenly Father keeps His promises and will choose one way to listen to the Book of Mormon this week.

Before you teach

  • Read Elder Jeremiah J. Morgan's talk and be ready to tell the story of his mother in your own simple words.
  • Bring a soft ball, a flashlight, a copy of the Book of Mormon, paper, and crayons.
  • Practice the one sentence the children will repeat: Heavenly Father keeps His promises.
  • Clear a little space so children can stand, step, and move safely.

Lesson plan

Thirty minutes in 6 parts. Times are a guide; let the Spirit and the learners set the pace.

3 min0–3

Sing and gather

  1. Sing “Book of Mormon Stories” with simple actions, or march in place to the beat.
  2. Invite a child to pray. Whisper together, then say in a regular voice: Heavenly Father keeps His promises.
5 min3–8

The ball always comes down

  1. Hold up the ball. Ask the children to guess what will happen when you let go. Drop it. Let several children take a turn dropping it.
  2. Ask: Did it ever stay up? Explain that something we cannot see, called gravity, pulls the ball down every single time, everywhere.
  3. Explain that a covenant is a special promise with Heavenly Father. Elder Morgan taught that God's power in covenants is like gravity: it reaches everywhere and never stops.
  4. Have the children stretch their arms as wide as they can and say together: Heavenly Father keeps His promises.
Ask
  • What is a promise? How do you feel when someone keeps a promise to you?
6 min8–14

A mother who read every day

  1. Tell the story: When Elder Morgan was a boy getting ready for school, his mother read the Book of Mormon out loud to him every day, whether he was listening or not, until it was finished.
  2. Act it out. Choose one child to hold the Book of Mormon as the reader. The others pretend to get ready for school: brush teeth, comb hair, put on shoes, pick up a backpack. Switch readers and repeat.
  3. Explain that he did not remember many of the words, but he knew the Book of Mormon was important to his mother and that she knew it was true. Later he knew it was true too.
  4. Share his words: “No time or effort is ever wasted in reading the Book of Mormon.”
Ask
  • How do you think he could tell that his mother loved the Book of Mormon?
5 min14–19

A very long promise

  1. Hold up the Book of Mormon and tell the children that a man named Enos prayed for people who would live long after him. The Lord made a covenant with Enos that those people would someday receive the gospel of Jesus Christ.
  2. Have the children take slow giant steps across the room while you say: a long time… a long, long time… more than two thousand years. At the other side, say together: And He kept His promise.
  3. Walk back the same way and repeat once more.
Ask
  • Does Heavenly Father forget His promises when a long time goes by?
6 min19–25

His love reaches me

  1. Turn on the flashlight and point it at the floor or a wall, never at eyes. Ask a child to stand near the light, then another to stand far across the room. Move the light to shine on the floor at each child's feet.
  2. Ask: Could the light reach near? Could it reach far? Explain that Elder Morgan taught that no one is too far away for God's love to reach.
  3. Share Elder Fale's words from this conference (the aligned quote) and say them together.
  4. Give each child paper and crayons. Invite them to draw themselves in a place they like to be, with a bright light shining on them to show God's love reaching them there.
5 min25–30

My turn to listen

  1. Let two or three children show their drawing and say where God's love reaches them.
  2. Check for understanding: ask, Who keeps His promises? and What book did the mother read every day? Let everyone answer together.
  3. Invite each child to choose one way to listen to or read the Book of Mormon this week and tell it to the child beside them.
  4. Sing “My Heavenly Father Loves Me” and share a short testimony that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love each child.
  5. Next week, begin by asking: Who listened to the Book of Mormon this week? What did you hear?

Key passages from the talk

“No time or effort is ever wasted in reading the Book of Mormon.”

Elder Morgan’s talk, paragraph 6

“covenants with God stretch over all time and all space.”

Elder Morgan’s talk, paragraph 18

“Don’t ever give up.”

Elder Morgan’s talk, paragraph 22

Scriptures

  • Enos 1:16 Hold up the Book of Mormon while you tell about the Lord's covenant with Enos; an older child can read the verse aloud before the giant steps.
  • D&C 84:57 After the acting, tell the children the Lord asks us to remember the Book of Mormon, just as the mother in the story did; an older child can find and read the first part of the verse.

Other voices that agree

“I am a child of God and He loves me.”

Elder Fale · I Am a Child of God, paragraph 1

Three things to remember

  • Heavenly Father keeps His promises.
  • God's love can reach me wherever I am.
  • Reading the Book of Mormon is never wasted.

Ways to act this week

  • Listen to or read the Book of Mormon every day this week, even a few verses.
  • Hang your drawing where you will see it and say: God's love can reach me.
  • Make one small promise to someone at home, such as putting away your shoes, and keep it.

Suggestions written for this lesson, not the speaker’s words.

Music

  • Book of Mormon Stories
  • My Heavenly Father Loves Me

Adapting the lesson

  • Ages 3–7. Keep each part short and repeat the sentence Heavenly Father keeps His promises after every activity, with arms stretched wide. Let every child drop the ball and be the reader for a moment. Skip the questions that need long answers and add another round of giant steps. A helper can sit with children who need a hand with drawing.
  • Ages 8–11. Have a child read Enos 1:16 aloud and another read the first part of Doctrine and Covenants 84:57. Ask a harder question: Why might Heavenly Father keep a promise even when it takes a very long time? Let an older child lead the giant steps or hold the flashlight, and invite them to write one sentence under their drawing about how God's love reaches them.

This lesson is an independent study aid written for this site. It is not an official lesson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Quotations are word for word from the official talk; paragraph numbers count the paragraphs of the talk as published at churchofjesuschrist.org, not counting headings or picture captions. The activities, questions and ideas for acting are suggestions; follow the Spirit and adapt them to those you teach.