Leadership Apprentice Week 3: Jan 2023

 APPRENTICE: Law 3: Love Truth,  Align Your Life with Principles

"The righteous love the truth and are not shaken."

- 2 Nephi 9:40

Study/Learn

Mission Driven Life: 

1. Read Ch. 5 in "The Mission Driven Life" .  Mark quotes that you like and be prepared to discuss why you like them.
2. Listen to this mission driven story: "Dorothea Dix" (42 min)
1. Write down how this story showed her living Law 3.
3. Where in your life do you need to find greater truth?  What commandment are you struggling to obey?  What family rule do you break every time?  What relationship do you have in your life that could be better and more meaningful?  Why don't you ever have any money when you need it?  Why do you procrastinate your school work? etc.
   
   
   The solution to all of these questions can be found by finding the truth and the principles surrounding the thing that is "off" in your life.  Choose 1 thing that is "off" in your life and find 5 true principles that can help you get back on track and record it in your journal along with some applications - stemming from the truths you've found - to implement in your life.  
   
   
   Here's an example:
   
   
   If I find that I never have any money when I need it, I can find some financial principles to get me on track.  
   
   
   Financial Principles:
   • If I spend less than I earn, then I will never overspend.
   • If I track my expenses, then I will know where my money is going.
   • If I use a budget, then I will know where my money needs to go.
   • If I save 10% of everything I earn, then I will have money available in case of an emergency.
   • If I pay my tithing to the Lord, He will "open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it." (Malachi 3:10)

   Applications:
   • I will pay my tithing the Sunday after every pay check.
   • I will track my expenses for an entire month to see exactly where my money is going.

Government: 

1. Read Article III  of the Constitution of the United States.
2. Read pages 34 ( and 36 and 38 from the "Understand the U.S. Constitution" and complete the worksheets on pages 35 and 37 and 39.  
3. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGyx5UEwgtA
4. Fill in the diagram on page 60 from the "Understand the U.S. Constitution" workbook.

Know/Understand

1.  Supreme Court current events: Do an internet search for a couple of articles from the last six months related to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prepare a 2-3 minute presentation on the articles and discuss how these articles or news stories relate to your understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. Supreme Court in the U.S. Constitution.  

2. We will organize a Supreme Court of Vanguard.  Come with an understanding of the roles of the President and the Senate in appointing a Justice of the Supreme Court.  

Prior to questioning, we will review some of the questions posed to the last 4 nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, and you should know when these four justices were voted on and approved for their seats on the judiciary.  Look up each of these justices and write down 1- when they were nominated and 2- when they were voted on/approved and 3- when they were sworn into the supreme court.

 

Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice,  

Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice,

Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice,

Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice,

Senators (Senator Jessee and Senator Eagar) should think about questions you would ask a potential supreme court justice, based, at least in large part, on your understanding of the role of a justice according to the Constitution.  We'll take time to present those questions to the nominees and allow time for preparation. Then we will allow questioning of the actual nominees and the Senators will vote on three Justices to sit on the Supreme Court.  

 

Become/Serve

Spend 15 - 30 minutes searching the Topical Guide of the Scriptures on the topic of Law.  Find three scriptures that teach you a lesson about law from a gospel and eternal perspective.  Makes notes in your journal or in your Gospel Library notes section about what makes these scriptures important to you; How do you feel about the principle/doctrine of law; and how this principle/doctrine relate to you ability to find joy.