I think I have practically told EVERYONE I know about this object lesson!
My neighbor used this in YW 2 years ago and it has honestly stuck with me!
I was getting it ready for Devin's seminary class and decided to use it on my Relief Society lesson that Sunday and it added SO much to my lesson!
So I love sharing things I LOVE!
Hopefully, someone will get to use this and it will work as great as it did for me!
If you do, let me know!
So here goes:
1. Count 1,380 M&M's and put them in a jar.
{To save you time: A big bag at Costco has a little over 600 in each bag. About 610. So that means you need 2 Costco bags and then 1 other bag at the store. I also prefer the peanut M&M's. They stand out more.)
2. Ask your class how many people they estimate are in the world today?
Tell the class that this jar of M&M's represents THE WORLD.
Each M on 1 M&M represents 5 MILLION PEOPLE.
There are approximately 6.9 BILLION PEOPLE ON THE EARTH TODAY.
3. Next, ask how many people live in the United States?
Tell them that there are approximately 310 million people that live in the United States.
That is approximately 62 M&M's.
4. You can narrow it down even more by asking how many people live in Utah?
There is approximately 2.7 million people living in Utah.
That is approximately 1/2 of M&M. (compared to the whole world)
Well, from here, it's your choice. You can use other statistics like these:
About 1/8 of the world have NO religion (780 million people; 156 M&Ms)
About 1/5 of the world are Muslim (1 billion 235 million; about 247 M&Ms)
About 1/8 of the world are Hindus (845 million; 169 M&Ms)
About 1/5 the world are made up of miscellaneous relgions (1 billion 365 million; 273 M&Ms)
About 1/3 the world is Christian: Believe in a Jesus Christ (2 billion 125 million; 425 M&Ms)
So after all of those statistics, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE MORMONS, MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS?
Well as of December 2009, there are 13,824,854 MILLION MEMBERS.
Which equals a little less than 3 M&M'S.
SHOCKING!!
at least for me!
You can use this lesson in so many ways:
to show the missionary work that still needs to be done
the blessings of being one of the 3 M&M's
To be in the world, but not of the world...
the list goes on!
You can also, add or take away from what I put on here!
I hope this helps you in some way!
