Art: Plan of Salvation Cards

What’s this?? An art post after 3 months? Yes, that’s right, after vegging out for a little while, trying to get my spirituality in order, I have finally gotten back to the work that I actually do now.

For our church, every summer the girls between ages 12-17 go to camp for a week. They have fun church-themed activities and lessons and stuff that they do amidst other girls their age from all the nearby branches that they don’t normally get to see otherwise. Well, my Aunt Wendy is helping them out this year and since I am interested in helping my younger sister, HB, who will be going this year, I’ve decided to help as well. I haven’t heard yet if I will be allowed to go but even so, I’m helping my Aunt with the lesson they’ve got planned.

For her segment of the lesson, she is going to teach the girls about the plan of salvation, which involves a break down of where we were before this life and where we will be after. All of this is pretty elementary stuff in our religion and missionaries are often equipped with small visual aids to help explain it to investigators and new members. Usually, these are very simplified, at least, all the ones I ever came in contact with when attending church before. But my Aunt wanted the girls to have something similar that they could color and cut out themselves to take home and either use to teach others or give to missionaries they know.

When looking at sets of these online, we found a set that was by LDSTools with very detailed paintings on the fronts and scripture references on the back of each card. What really struck us with inspiration though, was that they were all circle cards and they fit together concentrically, with bigger ones behind and getting smaller towards the middle. They fit together so neatly and they were all circles so belonged together. She still wanted the designs to be simplified so that they’d be fun to color in for the girls, so, I redid them with our own flare.

This is a picture of the Pre-mortal existence, where we were when we lived with Heavenly Father before. And the little curtain is my design of the veil we all passed through when we were born. The design of the Pre-Earth life on the LDSTools set was a bunch of whispy clouds and the veil was just the clouds fading out. To make it interesting for the girls to color in, I made it a simplified cloud and a flowing curtain.

Here is a picture of our bodies. In the Pre-existence, we had spirit bodies and when we came to Earth, we gained a physical body.

This picture represents our life here on Earth.

This picture represents where we go when we die: the Spirit world. The set my Aunt bought said “Paradise” and “Prison” on either side of the line but with the lines already there, I felt it would not be readable, so, I just simply put “Spirit World.” Then surrounding it are “the Millennium” when Christ comes again, “the Resurrection” when we are all raised from the dead, and “the Judgement” led by Christ who will judge us for our sins. When we are judged, it is determined then where we will spend our eternity.

The highest glory is the Celestial glory where Heavenly Father and Christ reside. This is the highest attainable glory, getting to be with our Heavenly Father again. It is usually represented with a sun, because of its wondrous brilliance.

The second place we can go is the Terrestrial glory, which is an existence a lot like Earth. This is where those who were good people but they did not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior will go. This is often represented by the moon(full, but a crescent is more fun to color for this activity) because of how it dims the light coming from the true brilliance we wish to see. I also just noticed that I spelled it wrong, so, I'll have to go back and redo this one. No big deal since it was fairly easy to do.

 

The second place we can go is the Telestial glory for those who sin and glory in their sins. This is usually represented by the stars for how much paler still they are compared to the sun and the moon.

So far, so good. The designs seem color worthy and simple enough. They’re all different sizes, so, when the girls color them and cut them out, they should fit together like the set Aunt Wendy bought did. If you would like to learn more about the plan of salvation, you can contact some missionaries through Mormon.org and they can give you more indepth information: https://www.mormon.org/missionaries

I’ve been getting tons of little commissions like this. I’ve got one in the next week or so to do for Sister Westbrook’s son’s room, and Sister Cooper asked me to help her with some placemat designs for the Relief Society birthday dinner. And I’ve got two paintings of the Restoration Site to do before May 1^st, so, I need to hurry up, lol. Enough playing around! I’m just glad to get back to work and I’m really grateful that Heavenly Father has sent all of these opportunities my way.