I can prepare now to serve a mission: 3rd Week Sharing Time Idea for September

Sharing Time Ideas from 2011 Primary Outline

ENCOURAGE UNDERSTANDING (reading scriptures): Show a picture of Ammon and tell the children that he was a great missionary who taught the gospel to the Lamanites.  Explain that he prepared to serve as a missionary before he went on his mission.  Read (or ask an older child to read) Alma 17:2-3 out loud.  Ask the other children to listen and raise their hand when they hear ways Ammon prepared to be a missionary.  Ask a child to write their answers on the board.  Tell the children that they can do these same things as they prepare to be missionaries.  Sing, "I hope they call me on a mission" (CS, 169).  As they sing, invite the children to pantomime simple actions missionaries might do, such as knock on doors, read the scriptures or ride a bike. 
ENCOURAGE APPLICATION (preparing for missions): Tell the children that there are things they can do now to prepare to be missionaries, such as studying the scriptures gaining a testimony, keeping the commandments, paying tithing, and saving money.  Give each child a tithing slip, and show them how to fill it out.  Help the children prepare a special place where they can put their tithing money and money they are saving for their missions.  It could be a box, a small jar or can, or an envelope with seperate spaces for tithing and savings.
TIP: Inviting a child to write on the board will make him or her feel valued.  It will also help hold the interest of the other children.

Sharing Time Idea from Little LDS Ideas

When I first saw this topic in the outline I thought...'I want to do something with a suitcase'. Well, I was on Sugardoodle today and happen to see an idea that I think everyone all over the world is going to end up doing, haha. 

A wonderful Sister shared her idea and then had a huge list of 'I want this idea emailed to me'. I read it and thought it was exactly what I was planning on doing.

So, instead of adding an idea of my own, I am just going to be a bum and borrow Heather Fawcett's idea. Thanks Heather for the great idea!!

Click Here to view Heather's Missionary Suitcase idea.