D&C 88:119 Study

Many years ago I created a handout for a Primary lesson I taught.

Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God;

Doctrine and Covenants 88:119

After listening to General Conference in October, I had the impression that I should study this scripture and ponder how I could create a house of each type mentioned.

Then I remembered that revelation is sprinkled throughout a group. I felt that if I truly wanted to determine as well as build these houses, I needed the help of everyone living here.

This "House of God" study made a wonderful Family Home Evening lesson. My daughter took charge. She quickly explained what we were going to do. Each person got a pen (different colors of course) and then she set a timer. After three minutes, we passed the papers. This continued until we each had the opportunity to write on all seven papers. Then we hung them where everyone sees them daily.

Now we can look at the papers and set personal and family goals. I am glad we did this together!

You can download the handouts I created from the links below.

House of God 8x10

House of God 6 per paper

House of God Study

Family Home Evening Lessons by Kids

Ever since President Nelson's Hope of Israel fireside, we've been using For the Strength of Youth for Family Home Evening. Each week one of us prepares a lesson on whatever topic is next in the book (website) and then we present it. I happened to come across this website that has ideas and suggestions for each topic so we're using it too.

In the past few months, my kids have been creating digital presentations more and more. With the LDS Media Library app, you can collect various types of media to use with a lesson. This has been one of the few apps that my youngest has always had access to. So she's familiar with finding videos and adding them to her favorites.

Well, last Monday it was N's turn to teach the Family Home Evening lesson. The topic was Family. She began by reading the booklet and picking out the paragraphs or sentences that stood out to her. (She chose paragraph 2, 4, and a sentence from 5.) Then she asked me to help her find pictures and images from the LDS Media Library app to cast to the TV, and to pick an activity. Yes, my going-into-second-grade daughter planned this all out.