Tag Archives: FHE

Is Your Family Time Disrupted by Summer?

Sometimes with the upheaval of the summer months it is easy to let things like family home evening and scripture study fall to the wayside. In the summer the children may stay out later and want to sleep in later. In the summer teenagers may be working or out with friends during meal times. It is still essential to have family home evening each week and family scripture study each day. Here are five tips to help you get back on track. 1) Sit down and discuss the situation with your children. You can often find a compromise once they … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Modern Day Prophets

This family home evening lesson is based loosely on the conference talk “Prophets—Pioneer and Modern Day” by Elder Earl C Tingey. The talk focuses on the many blessings that the church received while President Brigham Young and President Gordon B Hinckley were prophets of the church. This topic can be as broad or as narrow as you wish. You can easily include all of the prophets in the talk or focus specifically on President Gordon B Hinckley. You can open the family home evening lesson by reading Doctrine and Covenants 1:38. You can talk about what that scripture means. It … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Kind Words

This week’s family home evening lesson is about the words that you use. To learn more about this topic you can read “The Tongue of Angels” by Jeffrey R Holland. This lesson is going to focus primarily on the words that you say to others. You can also discuss the tone of voice that people use. If you feel that you need to broaden the lesson you can talk about actions and being kind to each other. You can open the lesson by reading Matthew 5:11. Discuss with your children what the scripture means. Ask your children about what their … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Music and Worship

This week you could have family home evening based on music. If you have teenagers, they can pass off goals in both the Personal Progress and Duty to God awards that involve music. This family home evening can take place at the beginning of the goal process or at the end or you may want to have a similar lesson after they have reached their goals. You can open family home evening by reading Doctrine and Covenants 25:12. As a family you can talk about how some music helps you think about Heavenly Father, and how some music can reflect … Continue reading →

Tips to Help You Use General Conference Talks for Family Home Evenings

During conference this year, President Hinckley urged families to use the general conference talks as the basis for family home evening lessons. If you have been struggling to come up with ideas of what to teach at family home evening, your problems are solved. There are enough talks that you can cover one each week between now and the next General Conference session. You can also teach lessons based on topic. In the May issue of the Ensign, then you can look in the index to group on topic. Here are a few tips to help you use these as … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Personal Prayer

This lesson is about personal prayer. It is based around Enos and his experience with prayer. This is a wonderful experience because you can use the example to teach on many levels. You should be able to draw points to teach the youngest Primary children and discussion for the most studied adult. You should open the lesson by sharing the story of Enos. You may want to read it as a family or your can use these flannel board figures to tell the story to young children. After you do this you can discuss the way that Enos prayed. If … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: The Tree of Life

The vision of the tree of life teaches us the importance of the choices that we make and the importance of continuing down the correct path, though the things around us may distract us. This is an excellent story from the Book of Mormon to base a family home evening on. Before you teach the lesson be sure to read 1 Nephi 8 and 1 Nephi 11. You can open the lesson by telling the story of the tree of life. You can do this by reading out of the scriptures, using the pictures from the Gospel Art Kit or … Continue reading →

Family Home Evening: Welcoming a New Baby

One idea for a family home evening is to plan a special lesson when you are expecting a new baby. This is a great way to help your other children understand the changes that are going to take place. It is also a chance to celebrate the times that they came to be part of your family. You can vary this lesson according to your family’s needs and circumstances. If you have very young children you will want to keep it much simpler. You can open the lesson by reading part of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” You … Continue reading →

Teaching, No Greater Call

Although I’m filing this blog under ‘callings’, I hope that everyone will take a few minutes to read it. Though we might not be officially called to teach in the church, every member plays a teaching role to some degree, and I hope that my thoughts will help readers to recognize the importance of that role. Because of the lay nature of our church, teaching is a distinct possibility for pretty much everyone who shows up. We may be called to the Primary, or to teach the youth. Perhaps the bishopric has asked us to teach long-standing members in Gospel … Continue reading →

Five Resources for Ideas for Family Home Evenings

If you are like me you are always on the lookout for new ideas for family home evening, or at least new ways to present the same gospel topics. Coming up with ideas can be the most difficult part of planning family home evening. Here are five ideas that may help you to make your family home evenings more meaningful. 1) If you can sit down and plan out three to six months worth of lessons, you will have more time to prepare the lessons. You can plan ahead to include lessons for big life events. Of course you can … Continue reading →