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1. Primary 5 Lesson Cards (Handout Idea)

2. OBJECT LESSON - Prepare a simple obstacle course in your classroom (or outside weather permitting).  Have each person try to get through it backwards.  After everyone has had a turn, let them go through the same course looking forward.  Discuss how looking forward is like forgiveness, because when we forgive, we can concentrate on our future and forget the hurts of our past.  Joseph was able to forgive those that hurt him and moved forward immediately.  How can we learn from his example?

3. OBJECT LESSON - Ask a class member to make a paper airplane, or make one yourself.  Tape a coin, rock, or weight to one side of the airplane. Stand on the same side of the room as the class members, and ask a class member to throw the airplane gently toward the other side of the room. Next, pick up the airplane and remove the taped object. Have the class member throw the airplane again. After the class member has done so a few times, put the airplane away, and ask the following questions: How can just one small weight keep the plane from flying correctly?  Explain that taping a weight to the wing of a paper airplane is like holding a grudge. When we refuse to forgive others, we carry around a weight that keeps us from traveling the straight and narrow path our Father in Heaven wants for us. It is important to forgive others so that we can enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost and grow spiritually.

4. Handout Idea from Emma's Place

5. Joseph Smith is Tarred and Feathered (Power Point Presentation) by Linda DiVall

6. GAME - Forgive and Forget

7. The Prophet Continues His Work Despite Persecution, March 1832

8. Violence erupted in Hiram on the night of 24 March 1832 when a mob of twenty-five or thirty, under the influence of whiskey, attacked the households of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon. Having stayed up late to care for his adopted infant son, who was sick with the measles, Joseph had finally fallen asleep on a trundle bed. The next thing he knew he was being dragged out the door, amid Emma’s screams. He struggled but was overpowered. The mob ridiculed him, choked him, stripped him, and tried to force a vial of acid into his mouth, which chipped one of his teeth, causing him thereafter to speak with a slight whistle. One man scratched him with “his nails like a mad cat and then muttered out: ‘G—d—ye, that’s the way the Holy Ghost falls on folks!’” They daubed tar all over his body, covered him with feathers, and left him suffering. When Joseph finally made his way back to the house, Emma fainted at the sight of the tar, which she mistook for blood. Friends spent the night cleaning off the tar, and the next day, Sunday, Joseph preached a sermon that was attended by some of the mob from the previous night, and he baptized three people. (Tarring and Feathering of Joseph Smith by C.C.A. Christensen, a pioneer artist (Taken from ldsces.org)