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Follow Up - OT - Judges

Last Sunday's Book of Judges lesson went well. We opened with a quick quiz about the events of the past few lessons, then talked about the meaning of faith, and how Gideon lacked faith by asking for proof of Heavenly Father's existence several times, and not being satisfied each time. 

We read the scriptures about the dew, talked about what dew was, and confirmed that the acts that Gideon asked Heavenly Father to do (cover a fleece in dew but not the surrounding land) was something that couldn't happen naturally. We then did the dew experiment, where the kids filled various water bottles with ice and water. We noticed after a few minutes that these bottles started to develop water droplets on the outside, whilst our control bottle of room temperature water didn't. This got them interested, and we discussed several ideas on why this could be the case. One of the kids suggested condensation, and we then explained how we're surrounded by water vapour, and this experiment makes it visible through condensation on the hot/cold interface. The grown ups in the lesson found this interesting and asked about condensation on windows during winter, which is a very similar effect (and which can lead to issues with damp and black mould formation). We concluded that there exist things that we can't see easily, but which we can trust through faith to be present, such as water vapour and also Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit. 

Condensation. Photo by AJ Jean on Unsplash

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