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Family Home Evening: 4 Ideas for Teaching Life Skills to Your Children

One fund idea for a family home evening night is to have a time when you focus on teaching specific home making skills to your entire family. You should open with a short spiritual thought and scripture at the beginning of the night. You could plan to do this as “Missionary Prep” series or “Family Helper” series once a month. Here are four ideas of skills you may want to teach your family. 1) You can have a family home evening that teaches your family to cook. Some families have a system already implemented in which they have each child … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: The Restoration

This family home evening lesson is based on the General Gonference talks “The Things of Which I Know,” “The Restoration of the Gospel” and “Mom, Are We Christians?” These talks focus on the events surrounding the restoration of the gospel. You should review the account of the First Vision in Joseph Smith History as well. You can open the lesson by reading the account of the First Vision in Joseph Smith History 1:8-20. If you have younger children you may want to summarize the story. A great visual aid would be to use the Gospel Art Kit. After you summarize … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Bible Stories

This week’s family home evening lesson is loosely based on “The Miracle of the Holy Bible” by Elder M Russell Ballard. You may want to take time to read this talk and highlight any specific portions that you want to cover with your children. Additionally you may want to spend some time preparing your children for conference. You may want to emphasize that the stories and counsel given in conference are just the same as when the prophets in the Bible spoke to the people of their time. You may also want to ask your children to come prepared to … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening and Scripture Study Roadblocks

We are instructed to hold regular family home evening, scripture study and prayer. I have blogged about the benefits of this numerous times. There are times in our family in which we are extremely successful in doing these things on a daily basis, and times when we are not. When we are going through the not-so-good times, I have found that it is usually one or a combination of the following five things. 1) Poor planning is one common reason why we do not have a well-planned out family home evening or we have a hurried prayer before my daughter … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Building Your Testimony

It is important to talk to your children about gaining and strengthening their testimonies. This family home evening lesson is going to focus on testimonies and how to build them up. It will also stress the importance of continuing to nourish your testimony once you have received it. You can prepare for the lesson by reading Alma 32:28-43. You may want to choose just one verse from the passage to open the lesson or you can begin by asking your children what a testimony is. You should make it clear that a testimony is a declaration of faith. Next you … Continue reading →

A Beautiful Family Home Evening

We do Family Home Evening whenever our schedule allows us. We most often do it on my husband’s day off, and with his work shift changing periodically, sometimes we’ll meet together on Sunday, or Tuesday, or Friday – just whenever we can work it in peacefully. We had our Family Home Evening this afternoon, strangely enough, and we found it one of the sweetest we’ve ever had. I’d like to share the highlights with you, if I may. My daughter is working on her Faith in God award and one of the suggested goals is to give a Family Home … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Forgiveness

This week’s family home evening lesson is on forgiveness. This is loosely based on the General conference talk “The Healing Power of Forgiveness.” This is great topic to teach even your youngest children. It is important for children to learn how to forgive. You should also point out that if we are struggling to forgive others that the Atonement can help us to forgive others as well. You can open the lesson by sharing Doctrine and Covenants 64:10 with your family. Discuss the scripture. You may want to ask your children whom they should forgive. If your children are all … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Five Ideas for Activities

When it comes to family home evening, it is often so easy to just focus on the spiritual message that is going to be taught. However, it is important to remember that another purpose of family home evening is to bring the family closer together. By having a fun relaxing activity after the spiritual part of the lesson you can help to build family unity. Here are five activities that you may consider doing as part of your family home evening. 1) A fun idea would be to have a family movie night. You can watch your old home movies. … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Peer Pressure

This week the family home evening lesson discusses the importance of choosing good friends. The lesson will also discuss the influence that your friends can have on you. This is a great topic to discuss with your children as they prepare to start school again. Remember as you teach this lesson to do so with the spirit. You can open your lesson by sharing the account of Alma the Younger and the sons of King Mosiah in Mosiah 27. After you share the story you can ask your children if these friends were good influences or bad influences? You may … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Pivotal Choices

This family home evening lesson is based loosely on “Life’s Lessons Learned” by Elder Joseph B Wirthlin. He gave the talk at the last General Conference. In the talk he shared stories of pivotal moments in his life, especially in his youth. This would be a great talk to adapt for a family home evening lesson, especially if you have teenagers. You can start out the lesson by reading Joshua 24:15. You can point out that we each must make the choice to keep the commandments and live the laws of the gospel. It is important to realize that we … Continue reading →