I Know the Scriptures are True

For our Family Home Evening and devotional theme this year, we decided to use the Primary theme, which is "I know the scriptures are true." We figured that there are so many great resources in the Friend, plus it's what they'd be learning about in Primary, so we should take advantage of that! Our nightly devotionals will take us through The Book of Mormon (although not reading every verse--we are reading some plus also using the picture stories). In addition, Sarah and U are reading The Book of Mormon together (a bonus being that Sarah is reading what her class in Primary is studying so they reinforce each other).

For our weekly home evenings, U and Me are taking one per month to introduce the theme for the month and to do a related activity and then we are having each of the kids teach one time per month as well. They are really excited about this. For our January lesson, we talked about Lehi and his family leaving Jerusalem and travelling through the wilderness. We then built some boats to sail to the promised land.

Here a couple of them are sailing.

For Megan's home evening, she taught about following the footsteps of Jesus. We traced our feet and wrote what we would do to follow Jesus. (Matthew wanted both of his feet traced, which is why there are six feet.)

For Sarah's home evening, she taught about temples and about how our body is a temple, She had a fun activity where Megan and Matthew decided whether things were good and should go into our body (like healthy food, good music, etc) or bad and should go into the trash (like drugs, bad words, etc).

For Matthew's home evening, he and U put on some puppet shows about manners. They taught us good things to do, and things not to do. In case you're wondering, the animals always had good manners while the people did not.