A Successful Family Home Evening

It's Monday!  Time to get our Family Home Evening lessons prepared!  Check back here on our ward blog for FHE lessons in the coming weeks.  Ideas and comments are very much appreciated!

On LDS.org, they have a Family Home Evening page.  Click here to see that page.  They have links to lesson resources, activity ideas, music & videos, Gospel art and much more!  There are also countless blogs and other websites that are hugely helpful and I'm planning on posting more information about those in the future. 

For our first FHE post on this new ward blog, lets go over the FHE basics together! 

• Start and end with prayer. This invites the Spirit, increases love, and teaches your family how to pray.
• Learn from the scriptures and the words of latter-day prophets to help your family live the gospel.
• Add music, such as hymns and Primary songs, to create an atmosphere of love, peace, and joy. Visit the LDS.org music site →
• Make it fun by playing games, acting out scripture stories, and making treats. Keep the atmosphere light and loving.
• Be consistent. Monday nights are set aside by the Church for family home evening. If that doesn’t work, find a night that does.
• Add variety. Help a neighbor in need, hold a lesson at the park, or go for a walk as a family.

President Thomas S. Monson had this to say about FHE:

"We cannot afford to neglect this heaven-inspired program. It can bring spiritual growth to each member of the family, helping him or her to withstand the temptations which are everywhere. The lessons learned in the home are those that last the longest.”