Brigham Young University Logo

Brigham Young University - Idaho

University Message

GS 120L: Lesson 5

Vocabulary

  • category (n)
  • conflict (n)
  • contact (v or n)
  • document (v or n)
  • format (v or n)
  • ignore (v)
  • insert (v)
  • occur (v)
  • reveal (v)
  • similar (adj)
  • bosom (n)
  • counsel (v or n)
  • counselor (n)
  • discernment (n)
  • ghost (n)
  • guidance (n)
  • humility (n)
  • to inspire (v)
  • to prompt (v)
  • reassuring (adj)
  • scripture (n)
  • stupor (n)

    Visit 1: Making the Right Decisions for Your Future

    Youg adults painting the side of a building

    GS 120L Lesson 5 PDF

    Today’s assignment is to discuss the following: What are some decisions we will all face in life? Why is it important to learn how to make good decisions?

    Using the topics below, discuss possible questions concerning decisions you may make as an adult. (The first topic has a few example questions.)

    1. College (Should I continue with my education after high school? If I do decide to attend college after high school, which college should I attend? Should I choose a college far from or close to home? What do I study? How do I pay for college?)
    2. Finances (money)
    3. Serving a mission
    4. Marriage
    5. Career

    Discuss why we need to learn to make the right decisions in our lives.

    Visit 2: Decision Making

    Young man praying with hands clasped

    Read the following paragraphs to your speaking partner. Read them one time through, and discuss pronunciation, unfamiliar phrases, or vocabulary words. Discuss with your Speaking Partner how the six questions below can help you in making good decisions.

    How to Make Wise and Inspired Decisions: Prayerfully Consider Alternatives

    “Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision” (Ezra Taft Benson, God, Family, Country: Our Three Great Loyalties [1974], 145). For this reason it is important that we learn to make wise decisions. In order to do so, we must learn to consider all possible solutions. This includes gathering facts and assessing what the results of each possible choice will be.

    President Ezra Taft Benson suggested that we use the following six questions as a guide in decision making:

    1. Could it retard or injure spiritual or moral progress?

    2. Could it create unhappy or unpeaceful memories?

    3. Is it contrary to the revealed will or commandments of God?

    4. Could it harm any individual, family, or group?

    5. Would the decision make [me] a better person?

    6. Could a blessing be derived from this particular action? [See D&C 130:20-21] (God, Family, Country, 151).

    (from “Decision Making,” Lesson 31, The Latter-day Saint Woman, Part B)