I have been asked to give a talk in Sacrament meeting about Family Home Evening. I immediately thought of this now famous photo of Richard - who tried valiantly to get through FHE without incurring someone's wrath!!
Anyway, I would like to hear about your experiences with FHE - good, bad, indifferent - you can recount, philosophize, exhort, entertain, suggest, pontificate - but do so before September 9th!
Thanks!!
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I am sure I can think of some stories. I will try to spend time thinking about it.
One thing you can say is that the Terrill family always had FHE every week. At least, I can't remember ever not having it. And we didn't do other stuff on Monday nights either, like I remember I wasn't allowed to go to friends' things or whatever.
Matt and I have gone back and forth at being good at it; currently we are in a state of consciously planning for it. Since we've been married the general format has been talking about our goals and our budget, having a thought or story or scripture, and singing a hymn and having a prayer. We should add treats.
It's nice to do, and as important (I think) to our marriage and family solidarity as attending the temple and paying tithing.
One FHE that I remember from growing up was Cosmo's funeral/memorial. At least, I think that was an FHE.
(By "it" in "it's nice to do," etc., I meant FHE...not treats.)
It was - and I think everyone thought it was memorable - even those who were there who were not family members.
I think they wished they'd known Cosmos!
yes - treats! very important.
i also think it's important to not neglect the spiritual.
we are very good at fun FHE's, and we are trying to do better in the spiritual enrichment area.
the friend is FANTASTIC for lessons for children.
i know ldsliving sends some great FHE ideas in their e-mails. that are very scripturally minded.
i do know that we are blessed when we obey the commandments - and in 1920(?) it became a commandment.
and planning is a key to success.
if you sit down every couple of months and lay out your lessons and activities - that helps quite a bit.
i will think of more
We made a chart to keep track of how many times in a row that we have FHE. That helps everyone stay motivated to remember and to have it. We made it so that the criteria was that it happened sometime during the week, before sunday night (the week began again on Monday). There were a few times that we nearly forgot and had a late night sunday FHE. But the kids learned that it was important to do and they like to do it.
Keep those comments coming folks!!
tonight for FHE we're doing our back to school father's blessings.
We have that back to school tradition too:)
We have been reading the conference talks from last May to get ready to receive the instruction this October. Since we can't listen to all of them, this is a good way to get the messages. We have cheaper internet here so we can listen on the computer this time around. When the kids were little, one of their favorite FHE was having Map time. After we joined the Foreign Service, map time helped us to decide where we wanted to go the next time. It also helps children to become geographically astute. So many Americans do not even know where any country is or state for that matter.
The blessings are a lovely tradition - and we had no one around for them this year - it was a little sad and poignant.
I like Map Time - I'm woefully ignorant when it comes to geography.
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