Family scripture study provides great opportunities for teaching and building testimonies. Parents will be thrilled as they discover the many helpful and exciting tools in these chapters which include, activities, object lessons, stories, discussion questions, quotations, and insights that will help them lead their families through the Book of Mormon.
Great Ideas for FHE
Try this one tonight! "The Creation"
Song:
"My Heavenly Father Loves Me," Children's Songbook, p. 228
Scripture: Moses 2:31
Quote:
I testify that God lives! Jesus is the Christ and Creator! He is Lord over all the earth. As beneficiaries of the divine Creation, what shall we do? We should care for the earth, be wise stewards over it, and preserve it for future generations.
(Russell M. Nelson, "The Creation," Ensign, May 2000, 84
Lesson:
Take a "click-style" ball-point pen apart (top, bottom, ink cylinder, and spring) and show all the little parts that make it work. Ask: Do you think that these parts could put themselves together to form a pen? Put them in a paper sack and have two or three family members shake the sack and see if the pen reassembles itself.
Explain that the world and our bodies are much more complicated than the pen. They could not have been created by chance. There must have been a creator, and he is our Heavenly Father.
(Alma Heaton, Tools for Teaching, [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1979], p. 10.)
Activity:
Give some modeling clay or salt dough to each family member. Assign one to shape a sun; another, a moon; one, the earth; and the rest, stars. Place the creations where all can see them.
(Dennis H. Leavitt and Richard O. Christensen, Scripture Study for Latter-day Saint Families: The Doctrine and Covenants, [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2004], p. 187.)
Noted teacher and gospel scholar David J. Ridges brings the books of Moses and Abraham, in the Pearl of Great Price, and the book of Genesis, in the Bible, to life with his well-known teaching skills. As with his other books in the Gospel Studies Series, the full text of the scripture is included. In-the-verse notes provide a highly effective, unique teaching tool. Notes between the verses provide additional insights and teach principles and doctrines.
Daily Thought
A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.
—Neal A. Maxwell
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