The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. … Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“The Family: A Proclamation to the World”CLICK HERE for this week's lesson from LDS.org
Ideas from Lindsey:
Have a family testimony meeting
Write a family mission statement
Write letters to each member of your family
Each member shares a favorite family memory
Mold your family out of play dough/clay...or paint family photos
Talent show
Read children's book about family
Give children a small puzzle that is missing one piece. Ask a child to put it together. When they notice a piece is missing, talk about the importance of families doing their part in the family. You may also discuss how we don't want any missing pieces in heaven.
Team building exercises
Bury a time capsule in your back yard (or create it and bury it once you live in your final destination!)
Next week's lesson: Friends
Ideas from Amanda Elmer:
ReplyDeleteWe are going to talk about building unity within the family.
We will use the object lesson of giving each member of the family a stick and asking one of them to break their stick in half (it should be small enough to break easily). Then we would gather all the sticks together and have someone try to break the whole bundle, and explain how when a family works together they cannot be broken but if they are on their own it's easy for Satan to break them.
We want to encourage our kids to be active participants in our family and work hard at being good examples for each other, and encouraging each other in accomplishing our goals.
Then we wanted to close by talking about President Uchtdorf's talk from stake conference. We wanted to point out that he had encouraged us to study chapter 3 in preach my gospel, and we wanted to ask for the help of the whole family in accomplishing that goal.
We also wanted to go over his three things to strengthen faith:
1)have a current temple recommend
2)study the word of God daily
3)pray daily