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Oct 25 2026

Jeremiah 31–33; 36-39; Lamentations 1; 3

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Heavenly Father and Jesus love me “with an everlasting love.”

Jeremiah 31:3

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 & Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022

  • Show the children some objects (or pictures of objects) and have them find items that last a long time, such as a metal coin, and some that do not, such as a piece of fruit. You could talk about what “everlasting” means. Read Jeremiah 31:3 and help the children understand that the love Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ have for them is “everlasting. Share with each other how you have felt Heavenly Father’s “everlasting love.”
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  • Ask the children to share how Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ show Their “loving kindness” for them (Jeremiah 31:3). To give the children ideas, sing a song about Their love for us, such as “I Feel My Savior’s Love” or “My Heavenly Father Loves Me” (Children’s Songbook, 74–75, 228–29). If possible, show pictures of things mentioned in the song. How do we feel when we think about the love of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ?

For additional resources see Love of God.

God will help me keep my covenants.

Jeremiah 31:31–34; 32:38–41

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 & Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022

  • Draw a heart on the board, and invite half of the children to read Jeremiah 31:31–34 and the other half to read Jeremiah 32:38–41. Invite the groups to write in the heart things they learn from their verses about our covenants with God. How is having God’s law written in our hearts (see Jeremiah 31:33) different from just reading it in the scriptures? Why do we want to make covenants with the Lord? Why does He want to make covenants with us?

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Come Follow Me Kid Cut apart the strips. Take turns choosing one out of a pile and discussing what it means

  • To review the covenants we make when we are baptized, invite the children to make a two-column chart on a piece of paper with the headings My Promises and God’s Promises. Ask them to fill in the chart by using Mosiah 18:10, 13. Invite the children to display the paper at home to help them remember to keep their covenants.

Friend March 2023 “Baptismal Covenants”

The scriptures are the word of God.

Jeremiah 36

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 & Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022.

Invite one child to pretend to be Jeremiah, and invite the other children to be Baruch. Help the child acting as Jeremiah say some words from Jeremiah 36:3 while the other children pretend to write them down, like Baruch did. Testify that the scriptures today are “the words of the Lord” (Jeremiah 36:4) that He asked prophets to write down.

  • Display a children’s book and a copy of the scriptures, and ask the children to talk about the differences they notice between the books. What makes the scriptures special? Help the children understand that the scriptures are God’s word written by prophets, just like the book of Jeremiah is what God told Jeremiah to write.

Friend October 2022 “Come, Follow Me Activities”

Story: The Lord told Jeremiah to write down His words (see Jeremiah 36:1–4). We can read them today in the book of Jeremiah. The scriptures help us know the words of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.

Song: “Search, Ponder, and Pray” (Children’s Songbook, 109)

Activity: Play a scripture guessing game! Take turns acting out your favorite scripture story. Have everyone guess what story is being acted out. What does your favorite story teach you?

I can share what I’m learning from the scriptures.

Jeremiah 36:4–10

Children can have a great influence on those around them. Like Baruch, they can share what they are learning in the scriptures with others.

  • Invite the children to do actions that go along with the words as you read (or summarize) Jeremiah 36:4–10, such as pretending to write in a book (see verse 4), holding the bars of a jail (see verse 5), and reading the scriptures to the people (see verses 8, 10). Emphasize that Baruch had the courage to read the words of Jeremiah to the people even though the leaders in Jerusalem didn’t want him to. Help the children to remember something they have learned from the Old Testament and to think of ways they can share it with others.

Friend May 2024 “Scripture Story Time” At reading time at school, the teacher asked if anyone had a book they would like read. Nyameye raised his hand. He had brought the Book of Mormon Scripture Stories. The teacher read Nyameye’s favorite story of Lehi’s vision. After school his friend wanted to read another of the stories with him. Other classmates came to listen and some asked questions. Nyameye was glad his friends liked his favorite stories as much as he did.

  • Sing a song about the scriptures, such as “Search, Ponder, and Pray” (Children’s Songbook, 109). Share your testimony of the scriptures, and invite the children to share their testimonies too.

I can stand up for what is right.

Jeremiah 38:6–13

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026

  • You could use the picture at the end of the outline to help your children visualize the story of Ebed-melech in Jeremiah 38:6–13. Maybe you could help them find a verse where Ebed-melech did something brave to help the Lord’s prophet. What can we do to show that we know our prophet today is called of God?
I Will Surely Deliver Thee (Jeremiah 39:18)
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Friend November 2019 “Dear Student Dictionary” After President Nelson’s special youth devotional, Matthew looked for ways to be a youth-battalion member. He was kind to others and stood up for kids being teased. After President Nelson’s conference talk about calling the church by its correct name, he wrote a letter to a student dictionary that used the name “Mormons”  and explained what the correct name of the church was.

The Savior made it possible for me to be forgiven of my sins.

Lamentations 1:1–2, 16; 3:22–26

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 & Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022

  • To introduce Lamentations, explain to the children that because the Israelites had not repented, Jerusalem and the temple there had been destroyed. Ask the children to talk about how they might have felt if they had been living in Jerusalem at that time. Read together Lamentations 1:1–2, 16. What words and phrases in these verses help us understand how the Israelites might have felt? How might the message in Lamentations 3:22–26 have given them hope?
  • You could also tell each other about times you felt sad about a bad choice you made. What do we find in Lamentations 3:22–26 that helps us understand the forgiveness Jesus Christ offers?

Friend February 2021 “Repenting and Trying Again” After yelling at his brother for breaking his toy, Raymond remembered what the bishop had said during his baptism interview, “We all make mistakes. But we can repent and try again.” Raymond apologized to his little brother for yelling.

Friend April 2026 ” Jesus Christ Rescues Us”

As the book of Lamentations poetically describes, we often feel sorrowful when we sin. These feelings can inspire us to change and ask Heavenly Father for forgiveness. (The book of Lamentations is a collection of poems written after the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple.)

Additional Resources

Latter Day Kids “Waiting on the Lord” Lesson ideas

Come Follow Me Kid Lesson ideas

The Red Crystal Lesson ideas

Come Follow Me with Living Scriptures “His People” Lesson Ideas

Oct 9 2022

 Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20

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Old Testament Stories “Jeremiah the Prophet” Images and Video

Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families: Old Testament 2022 “Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20” At first, Jeremiah didn’t think he would make a good prophet. “Behold, I cannot speak,” he protested when the Lord first called him (Jeremiah 1:6). The Lord reassured him, “I have put my words in thy mouth” (verse 9). Jeremiah felt that he was an inexperienced “child” (verse 6), but the Lord explained that he was actually more prepared than he realized—he had been ordained to this calling even before he was born (see verse 5). So Jeremiah set aside his fears and accepted the call. He warned Jerusalem’s kings and priests that their pretended holiness would not save them from destruction. The “child” who thought he could not speak came to feel God’s word “in [his] heart as a burning fire” and could not be silent (Jeremiah 20:9).

Prophets are called to speak the words of the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:4–19

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 & Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022 “Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20”

  • Consider showing pictures of the living prophet or prophets from the scriptures (you can find some in Church magazines, the Gospel Art Book, and Come, Follow Me).Let the children tell you what they know about these prophets. Briefly tell the children about something each one did to help with God’s work. Bear your testimony that prophets are called of God to speak His words and serve His people.

Friend March 2010 “Follow the Prophet”

Friend October 2026 “Prophets Are Called to Speak the Words of the Lord”

  • To teach about what prophets do, you might select some helpful verses from Jeremiah 1, such as verses 5, 7, 10, and 19. Your children could each pick one of the verses, read it, and share something they learn about prophets.

Verse 5

Foreordination See Gospel Topics: Foreordination

Verse 7 God speaks through his prophets

Play a simple game by giving instructions to one child and asking him or her to repeat the instructions for the other children. Help them see that following the child’s instructions is the same as following your instructions and that following the prophet is the same as following the Lord. Read to them the last line of Doctrine and Covenants 1:38: “Whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same.”

The Gathering of Israel

Verse 10

Prophets warn the nations, but if they do not heed the prophets words…

When the Lord first called Jeremiah to be a prophet, He told him that his mission would be “to root out, and to pull down” (Jeremiah 1:10)—and in Jerusalem, there was plenty of wickedness to root out and pull down.

Prophets also build and help us grow.

Ensign June 2016 “We Believe in Following the Prophet”

Verse 1: We listen to a prophet’s voice and hear the Savior too. With love he bids us do the work the Lord would have us do. The Savior calls his chosen seer to preach the word of God, That men might learn to find the path marked by the iron rod.

Verse 2. In ev’ry land, in ev’ry tongue, our prophet will be heard; How swiftly round the world his voice reveals the gospel word! The sacred message that he brings will witness and agree, With ev’ry prophet called of God throughout earth’s history.

  • Show the video “Why Do We Have Prophets?” (ChurchofJesusChrist.org), and ask the children how they would explain to a friend why it’s a blessing to have a living prophet (see Articles of Faith 1:6, 9). Invite the children to share their feelings about the living prophet.

Friend June 2022 “I Will Follow the Prophet”

Ensign April 2016
Ensign April 2016

Latter Day Kids “Prophets” Lesson ideas

Heavenly Father knew me before I was born.

Jeremiah 1:5

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 & Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022 “Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20” Because we lived with God before we came to earth, He knows us, even if we can’t remember Him

  • Read to the children Jeremiah 1:5, and explain that God knew the prophet Jeremiah before he was born. Tell each child, individually, that Heavenly Father also knew him or her before he or she was born and that He sent each of us here for a purpose.

We lived in Heaven: Explain that before we were born on earth we lived in heaven with Heavenly Father.

We were spirits there. A spirit is what is inside of us that makes us alive. When we were spirits, we didn’t have flesh and bones like our bodies have now, but we looked the same.

  • Show the children a picture of a baby, and ask the children if they know where this baby lived before he or she was born.(or, if possible, you could look at pictures of your children when they were babies). Ask your children if they know where they lived before they were born.)
  • You could also sing together a song that teaches about our premortal life, such as “I Lived in Heaven” (Children’s Songbook, 4). Talk about the spiritual feelings the song brings. Bear your testimony that we all once lived with Heavenly Father and that He sent us here to earth.

If your children would like to learn more, you could help them find “Premortal Life” in the Guide to the Scriptures. They could look for answers to “who,” “when,” and “what” questions about the premortal life.

Latter Day Kids “My Heavenly Father Knows Me” Lesson ideas

I can help Heavenly Father’s children come back to Him.

Jeremiah 16:14–16

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 & Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022 “Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20”

  • While you read Jeremiah 16:16, your children could pretend to “fish” or “hunt” for objects around the room. President Russell M. Nelson has compared the fishers and hunters in this verse to missionaries (see “The Gathering of Scattered Israel,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2006, 81). What do missionaries do? How can we help “fish” and “hunt” for scattered Israel? (see “A Message for Children from President Russell M. Nelson” , ChurchofJesusChrist.org).

Friend October 2022 “Come Follow Me Activites: Fishers of Men”

Friend October 2022 “Fishing Game”

  • Create a matching game using this week’s activity page. When a child finds matching pictures, talk about what that picture shows we can do to help Heavenly Father’s children return to Him.
  • Share this statement from President Russell M. Nelson: “Anytime you do anything that helps anyone—on either side of the veil—take a step toward making covenants with God and receiving their essential baptismal and temple ordinances, you are helping to gather Israel” (Russell M. Nelson and Wendy W. Nelson, “Hope of Israel” [worldwide youth devotional, June 3, 2018], supplement to the New Era and Ensign, Aug. 2018, 15, ChurchofJesusChrist.org). How can we help gather Israel?

  • Sing together a song about missionary work, such as “I Hope They Call Me on a Mission” or “Called to Serve” (Children’s Songbook, 169, 174), or show the video “Your Day for a Mission” (ChurchofJesusChrist.org). Ask the children what they learn from the song or the video about why someone would choose to serve a mission.

I can let the Lord guide my life, like a potter shapes clay.

Jeremiah 18:1–6

Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026

  • To explore these verses, you might discuss or show how pottery is made (see the picture at the end of this outline). What message does the Lord have for us in Jeremiah 18:1–6? What does it mean to be clay in the Lord’s hands? (see also Isaiah 64:8). For another story that compares us to potter’s clay, see Elder Richard J. Maynes’s message “The Joy of Living a Christ-Centered Life” (Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2015, 27–30).

Friend October 2026 “Weekly Scripture Fun”

Friend October 2026 “Clay Recipe” Set aside extra time to make the clay recipe (the clay mixture needs time to cool before you can use it).

Additional Resources

The Red Crystal “Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20”

Come, Follow Me—For Primary: Old Testament 2022 “Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20”

Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13–14.

To help family members visualize these verses, you could demonstrate what happens when you put water in a cracked or broken container. What might the “fountain of living waters” and “broken cisterns” represent? (Jeremiah 2:13). How do we drink from the Lord’s living water?

See Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Old Testament 2026 for an object lesson video demonstrating drinking from a broken cup.