FHE Monday #3

In my last post I mentioned that we are going to do better about Family Home Evening, and today, even though we didn't have it until 10 PM, we held FHE and I am so happy about it!!

When I was visiting Husband Man's family for Thanksgiving, we went to church with them on Sunday and in Relief Society his mom gave the lesson. I can't remember what her original topic was about, but the these are the things that touched me the most:

Pattern of Prayer
Library of Learning
Legacy of Love
Treasure of Testimony
Family Home Evening should have an opening prayer, a purpose, and a closing prayer. (And music.)

Looking over these simple notes I had taken, I realised that FHE can help us develop all of those things, and can be a great way to help our children feel and learn these ideas. It can also help us guide our FHEs so that they can guide and uplift and teach our children.

Anyways, this evening we did a time capsule. When I was going through my things at my parents' house, I discovered a time capsule I had done when I was about ten or eleven, probably with a church activity. I opened it, and read all kinds of goofy stuff-- I liked pink and grey, only wanted one kid, and the thing I remembered most was that my friends had just moved away. I really
thought it would be fun to do one every couple or few years as a family, and open them in the future. We picked a few questions and had each person in the family answer them, things like favorite color, food, scripture or scripture story, and how many kids we wanted (or brothers and sisters). We kept it mostly silly, but tried to have a question or two that was gospel-related. We also did a small family section that told where we lived, what callings we had, etc.

So we sang "Families Can Be Together Forever", Husband Man gave an opening prayer and did the scripture (he chose one about Noah, since Gummy Bear received a Fisher Price Noah's Ark in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa S), and I led the time capsule activity. Then we sang the "I love Daddy, he loves me" song and I "helped" Gummy Bear say a closing prayer. When it was over, we blew raspberries with Gummy Bear (his newest thing). I felt such warmth and happiness, and I know that we were doing the right thing. (Finally!)

Blowing raspberries!

I think this is going to be a great goal for this year!