QR Challenge: Spiritual Treasure Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1. At this time the church was deeply in debt. Joseph Smith traveled to Salem Massachusetts to find some “treasure” that he had heard was buried there. After searching, they came up empty-handed. Read D&C 111:10. Underline in D&C 111:2 the true treasure God wanted them to find in this city. Write the following sentence in your journal and Fill in the blank: The real treasure was that there were “many _______ in this city” needing the gospel.	People
2. 2. Even though Joseph was hoping to find treasure in Salem, Massachusetts to get the church out of debt, he was able to teach the people there about the gospel. 5 years later, they organized a branch (like a ward) of 120 people. Write in your journal why the people in your life are the most important treasure.	People are the most important treasure
3. 3. Soon after Thomas B. Marsh was called to be an Apostle in 1835, he was appointed President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In the spring of 1837, President Marsh learned that one of the Twelve Apostles, Elder Parley P. Pratt, was planning a mission to England without President Marsh’s direction. President Marsh, who was in Missouri, wrote to Elder Pratt and the other members of the Twelve and invited them to meet him in Kirtland, Ohio, on July 24, 1837, so they could be unified in their plans for missions. However, a month before that meeting took place, two other members of the Twelve, Elders Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde, departed for England after receiving mission calls from the Prophet Joseph Smith. President Marsh was apparently upset that members of the Twelve were preaching the gospel in England without his involvement and permission. Write in your journal what Thomas B. Marsh could have done with Joseph Smith to fix the problem.	Talked to Joseph and worked it out
4. 4. Read D&C 112:2-3 and underline what he needed to change (v.2) and what is hopeful (v.3). In your journal, write down the things you underlined.	Heart and sins are forgiven thee
5. 5. Read D&C 112:10, 22 and underline the counsel God gives. In your journal, write down the hymn number from the hymnbook that quotes verse 10 (hint: look under the topic of humility in the back of the hymnbook). It might sound bad, but you have to whistle one verse of this hymn before you can move on.	Be Thou Humble # 130
6. 6. Read D&C 112:12 and underline the counsel God gives. In your journal, write down when you think it is appropriate to “admonish (to warn firmly) [someone] sharply” and when it is not appropriate.	When it’s done with love
7. 7. Read D&C 112:15 and underline the counsel God gives. In your journal, write down 1 way that teenagers may be tempted to “Exalt (think or speak highly of) [themselves]” above others and 1 way they may “rebel…against” the prophets today.	Spotlight, Ignore FTSoY
8. 8. Read D&C 112:33-34 and underline the counsel God gives. In your journal, write down one piece of counsel.	Cleanse your heart
9. 9. Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf: “We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.” … The moment we stop obsessing with ourselves and lose ourselves in service, our pride diminishes and begins to die.” The author C.S. Lewis once said, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less.” In your journal, write down one lesson you learn from these quotes.	Think less of ourselves
10. 10. For a time, President Marsh followed the counsel he had received. He worked to strengthen the Church and sustain Joseph Smith. However, he soon returned to his contentious (involving heated argument) feelings about the way the Church was led. These feelings combined with concerns about conflicts between disobedient and aggressive Church members and their neighbors in Missouri. In September 1838, while he was beset (threatened) by this spirit of apostasy, his wife, Elizabeth, became involved in a dispute. She and another woman, both members of the Church, had agreed to regularly exchange milk to have enough to make cheese, but Sister Marsh was accused of violating her agreement by keeping the part of the milk that was richest in cream. The matter was brought before Church leaders more than once. It was even brought before the First Presidency. Each time, it was decided that Sister Marsh was at fault. President Marsh was angry and unsatisfied with these decisions (see George A. Smith, “Discourse,” Deseret News, Apr. 16, 1856, 44). While this situation did not lead him to leave the Church, it compounded with his other frustrations. He became increasingly critical of other Church leaders, and he eventually turned against the Saints. He later recalled, “I became jealous of the Prophet … and overlooked everything that was right and spent all my time in looking for the evil” (“Remarks,” Deseret News, Sept. 16, 1857, 220). In your journal, write one lesson you learn from this experience.	Pride leads to the fall

 

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