A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Visiting Family 🙂
For family home evening tonight we went to dinner at Granny’s house. I made a couple of cheesecakes for dessert and Granny had made meatloaf for dinner. Laurel & Roine and their family were all sick and they didn’t come, so after dinner the kids ran around for a bit then we took some cheesecake and meatloaf over to them.
Daniel Trusts in the Lord ‘The Friend’ June 1998, 34
Opening Song: Children’s Songbook pg 160 “Choose the Right Way”
Opening Prayer: Tyra
Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Activity: Construct a flannel/felt board-We used a piece of foam board and covered it with a large white piece of felt (we used masking tape to hold it on, but I don’t know if it’s going to hold very well :-/ )
Lesson: Prepare by making the felt board pieces available at the above link. Using the felt board, and felt story pieces, tell the story of Daniel and his friends refusing to eat of King Nebuchadnezzar’s food, because they stood for what they knew was right and would only eat a healthy diet (Word of Wisdom).
Closing Song: Children’s Songbook pg 158 “Dare to do Right”
Closing Prayer: Jeremy
FHE Treat: Swiss Colony Petits Fours 😛
Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy “Short & Sweet with a Treat!” Lesson 22 & “52 Weeks of Family Night” Lesson 48
Opening Song: Children’s Songbook pg 157 “When I Go To Church”
Opening Prayer:Tyra
Scripture: Mosiah 18:23 “And he commanded them that they should observe the sabbath day, and keep it holy, and also every day they should give thanks to the Lord their God.”
Lesson:Sunday is a special day, and is a day of rest. When Christ was finished creating the earth and all things that are in this earth He rested. Genesis 2:1-3
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”
Keeping the Sabbath day holy is a commandment. Exodus 20:8-11 says
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor they son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
We can try to keep the Sabbath day holy (holy means special) by preparing for Sunday on Saturday. We can:
We can keep the Sabbath day holy by:
On Sunday we do not:
“The Sabbath is a blessing to man as a time of spiritual growth and refreshment….Persons who fail to keep the Sabbath lose an opportunity for spiritual growth and forfeit the rich companionship of the Spirit of the Lord.” Elder Dallin H Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (BYU Speaches, September 10, 1974, 218).
Activity: Construct a Sunday box which will be a box that is only gotten out on Sunday. Include activities to help keep children occupied while still keeping the Sabbath Day holy. Some things we put in our box include:
(We plan on adding other activities to our Sunday box over time and we will keep you posted 😀 )
Closing Song: Children’s Songbook pg 155 “Remember the Sabbath Day”
Closing Prayer:Jeremy
FHE Treat:Cupcakes (from a mix 😀 )
Emergency Preparedness:Car Kits Family Home Evening Manual (pg 322-323)
Opening Song:Children’s Songbook pg 195 “Family Night”
Opening Prayer:Ethan
Scripture: Doctrine & Covenants 38:30 “….if ye are prepared ye shall not fear.”
Activity:Assemble a car kit for each of the family’s cars. Place as many items in a 5 gallon bucket as you can. Mount the fire extinguisher to the floor of your trunk (so that it doesn’t roll around).
Activity: Fire in a #10 can-Pour just a little rubbing alcohol in the #10 can, add a small wad of toilet paper take it outside and light it. The fire will then produce heat which will keep you warm. 😉
Closing Song: Hymn 303 “Keep the Commandments”
Closing Prayer:
FHE Treat:Car cakes that Granny made.
House of Order Family Home Evening Manual, Lesson 20 (pg 89)
Opening Song: Hymn 215 ‘Today while the Sun Shines’
Opening Prayer: Tyra
Game: Come to Order-Dad tells the family to line up in different orders, such as by age, size, birthday….. after playing the game point out that somebody had to be giving the directions in order for everyone to know how to line up.
Scripture: Doctrine & Covenants 132:8 “Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.”
Parent’s Responsibilities:
Mommy dress up-Here I left the lesson to go dress up as a maid, with an apron. On the apron I pinned a piece of paper that I had written “Maid” on. I came back to the living room picking things up as I came. Then we proceeded to point out to the children that I am NOT a maid and that what I was currently doing in picking everything up was not one of the jobs we had just established as being mine.
Children’s Responsibilities
Closing Song: Children’s Songbook pg 198 “When We’re Helping”
Closing Prayer: Jeremy
FHE Treat: Peanut & Chocolate Chex Bars