Category: FHE

Obedience

Opening song: “Do as I’m Doing” Children’s Songbook pg 276

Opening prayer:

Scripture: Ephesians 6:1 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”

Lesson: For our lesson we broke up the scripture and explained each part. Who are children? What does it mean to obey? Who are the parents?……We explained that mommy and daddy aren’t going to ask them to do anything naughty, and that when we ask them to do something it is for their safety and their happiness. We also explained what happens when everyone obeys-mommy is happier, and doesn’t yell, which means that they are happier as well. But when they don’t listen mommy gets really mad really fast then nobody is happy….

Activity: We had the kids ‘practice’ obeying by playing “Mommy says” (kind of like Simon says).

Closing song:

Closing prayer:

Treat: Candy from the pantry

Families from no manual or anything just basically from Kyle’s head 😉

Opening song: “A Happy Family” Children’s Songbook pg 198

Opening prayer: Dinah, then Tyra (Dinah has to pray first EVERY TIME)

Lesson: Given by Daddy

Activity: Textures place a piece of paper on a rough surface, and rub the paper with the side of a naked crayon and check out the pattern made on the paper. This was a fun experiment for the kids, and they really enjoyed watching the different patterns show up on the paper.

Closing song:

Closing prayer:

Keep the Sabbath Day Holy Lesson 29

Opening Song: “Saturday” Children’s Songbook pg 196

Opening Prayer: Tyra

Scripture: Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy”

Lesson: Bear your testimony of the blessings that come from keeping the Sabbath day holy. Relate the following incident or a personal experience like it.

“John and Mary had been married 14 years and still didn’t have a home of their own. They had just gone through a particularly difficult business year, and had been turned down for a modest house. John was brokenhearted. Then he happened to read in D&C 59 where the Lord promises to all those who keep the Sabbath day holy: ‘The fulness of the earth is yours…whether for food or for raiment or for houses, or for barns.” He resolved to put this scripture to the test, and asked the Lord to help him and his family keep the Sabbath day holy and to help them buy their new home. Thirteen months later they were led by inspiration to visit their old neighborhood, where they saw a “For Sale” sign on one of the houses. They called the owner, who knew then, and he offered to let them move into the home, put it on a contract, and pay the down payment when their business improved. They knew the Lord meant what he said when he promised them ‘the fulness of the earth’ for keeping the Sabbath day holy.”

So I talked with the kids about some of the ways we can keep the Sabbath day holy

• Wear our ‘Sunday clothes’ all day.
• Read scriptures
• Pray
• Watch special ‘Sunday approved’ movies and not just any movie
• Don’t play video games or anything that would keep our mind from the Savior
• Listen to ‘Sunday music’ and not just whatever happens to be on the radio (or in itunes)
• Take naps to rest our bodies for the coming week
• Keep housework to a minimum

Activity: Call Daddy

Closing Song: “Welcome, Welcome, Sabbath Morning” Hymn #190

Closing Prayer: Jeremy

FHE Treat: “Cold Turkeys”: For each person you will need one scoop of vanilla ice cream, a cherry, a toothpick, a big chocolate chip cookie and chocolate syrup. Put a school of ice cream on a plate; using the toothpick, attach the cherry to the ice cream as a head. Stand a cookie against the ice cream as a tail. Dribble chocolate syrup over the ice cream.

I didn’t have vanilla ice cream or chocolate chip cookies, so we ended up using cookies and cream ice cream and Reese’s peanut butter cups 😀

Well it has been a REALLY long time since we last had a “Family Home Evening”. Right after Chloe was born we really just slacked off in having an official FHE. I hate feeling like if *I* don’t do something, it’s just not going to get done. SO here we are with a new year, and *I* am initiating and insisting that we start having Family Home Evening again. This year I decided that I would just use this binder of FHE lessons that our ward Relief Society had available to buy at Fabulous Friday last fall.

JESUS IS OUR SAVIOR Lesson 13

Opening Song: “When He Comes Again” Children’s Songbook pg 82

Opening Prayer: Mommy

Scripture: John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Read by Tyra

Lesson Idea: “Jesus taught us how to live Heavenly Father’s commandments. With His teachings we can keep our spiritual boat afloat. Jesus asked Heavenly Father to forgive us of our sins if we repent. He died for us and was resurrected so that we might live again. If you don’t want to sink, follow the teachings of Jesus. He will bring you safely home. We have a map for our journey through life. This may be found in the scriptures. Read the scriptures daily to stay in the lifeboat the Lord has provided. Jesus is our life Savior. When sailing the seas of life, He is the captain of our ship. We can be protected against evil as we read the scriptures and learn of His teachings. We can sail safely to our heavenly home as we obey His commandments. He has shown us the way back. Jesus wants us to have faith in Him and know that His death was for a purpose. He had the power to save His own life, but He knew He had to go to Jerusalem to suffer and die for us.” (That’s the lesson straight out of the book, and it was read by Ethan)

Activity: “You will need a drinking glass or pint size jar filled with at least three inches of water, an egg, and lots of salt. The glass and water symbolize the world. The egg represents each of us. The salt is the teachings of Jesus or the gospel. Put the egg into the water and the egg will sink. Explain that without Jesus we would sink too. Then add the salt of the teachings of Jesus, making sure that you spread the gospel (dissolve the salt in the water) around. The egg will float symbolizing that Jesus’ teachings will help keep us afloat.” (Performed by Mommy).

Treat: Doughnuts, bagels or lifesavers. We had doughnuts MMMMMM 😛

We have been lousy at keeping up with family home evening since Chloe was born. Basically, I didn’t plan it, and I didn’t call everyone together, and so therefore there was no family home evening. (I hate feeling like if I don’t do something it NEVER gets done, because everything is planned and done by ME). SO when I was sitting in relief society today, and the lesson was on a talk from General Conference last April titled, ‘Sacred Homes, Sacred Temples’ a thought came to my mind, that I need to make my home like a temple, and I needed to TEACH my kids about the differences between our home, and our temple and we needed to talk about HOW we can make our home more like the temple. Thus the idea for this family home evening was born.

We started on our porch talking temples, and our house, and then we took a tour of the house. We went from room to room pointing our what we saw (there was LOTS), and then we came to the living room to watch a little bit of “Mountain of the Lord” I showed them the clip where they are showing the inside of the Salt Lake temple before it was dedicated. As we were looking at the inside of the temple, I would ask:

• Is there laundry on the floor, or on the chairs?
• Do you see toys all over the place?
• Is there trash on the floor?
• Do you jump off the furniture in the temple?
• It this room messy?

I’m sure I asked other questions too but you get the idea. I ended by telling the kids how nice it feels to be in the temple, everything is calm and peaceful, and I want to feel that way when I’m at home too.