Book of Mormon

Song: Book of Mormon Stories
Prayer: Dylan
Scripture: Tyler 2 Nephi 4:15
Lesson: Book of Mormon - the coolest gift

I used this idea and told everyone that I had forgotten to do the lesson. Had anyone else prepared a lesson? What are we going to do? I then had Arthur secretly call our home phone and I pretended to have a conversation with an unknown person.

Do you hear that? They are coming? Listen carefully, they are getting off the freeway! I think I hear them driving down the road! They are going to bring us the coolest thing ever! Wait, I hear them pulling into the driveway! Do you see them! Oh, they are walking to our backyard! Hurry, let's see what they are going to bring us!

We ran downstairs and the boys opened the door to find a gift bag on the deck. We then opened it up to find it contained the Book of Mormon.

I then told them how much I love the Book of Mormon and how cool it has been in my life.

I had them sit down to listen to my favorite Book of Mormon story.

3 Nephi 17:19-24
I showed a picture of Jesus with children to illustrate how much Jesus loved little children and how he personally blessed them. I read quite a bit, but I wanted the kids to hear directly from the scriptures.

Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Arthur

Sharing

Song: I am a Child of God
Prayer: Arthur
Scripture: Tyler

Lesson: Kerri

Sharing

Kerri and Arthur acted out several scenarios and asked the kids if we were sharing (thumb up) or not sharing (thumbs down).

Do you feel happy or sad inside when you share your toys?
Do you think Heavenly Father wants us to share with others?
The happy feeling that you feel inside is Heavenly Father telling you that he is proud of you.
Heavenly Father wants to share all that he has with us. In order for us to be able to receive those things, we need to be like him and learn to share all that we have with others.

Activity: Sharing Cube Game found in the Nursery Manual

Song: Helping Song
Prayer: Tyler

Testimony

Song: I want to Be a Missionary Now
Prayer: Tyler

Lesson: Kerri

A testimony is a strong belief in something. In church, it is important to have a belief in many things. That belief will allow us to have a testimony which will help us to grow spiritually. When we have trials, our testimony will carry us through and help us overcome any obstacles. Tyler mentioned that it is important to have a testimony of Jesus, the prophet, and temples.

Activity: We cut out the pictures from this lesson from the Friend magazine. We taped them onto our fingers. As we taped them on, we talked about what each picture stood for and why we needed to have a testimony of it. As members of the Lord's church, it is crucial to have a testimony of these things.

Song: I Love to See the Temple
Prayer: Dylan

Prayers of Gratitude

Song:
Prayer: Arthur

Lesson: Kerri

I read the story, Pirates, from the Friend Magazine. We talked about how a simple prayer from a little girl helped save all the people on the boat. It is important to Thank Heavenly Father for all of our blessings in our prayers. We then talked about some of the things that we are grateful for in our live.

Activity: I used the activity from this page in the Friend. We listed all of the things that we should thank Heavenly Father for in our prayers.

Prayer: Tyler

Noah's Ark

Tyler has been very interested in the story of Noah's Ark, so I asked him to give the lesson this week.

Song: I have a Family Tree
Prayer: Arthur
Scripture: Kerri
Genesis 7:1 And the Lord said unto ^aNoah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation

Lesson: Kerri and Tyler

Picture 1: Ark on dry land with animals walking inside

The people on the Earth were very wicked. Every one except for Noah and his family were wicked. God decided to flood the Earth but wanted to preserve the faithful. So, He asked Noah to build an ark for his family the animals on the Earth

Picture 2: Ark floating on water

The rains began and the Earth flooded. The ark held up perfectly through the storm

Picture 3: Animals inside the Ark

Even though there was a terrible storm, the animals were all safe and comfortable inside the Ark.

Picture 4: The skies are clear, a dove retrieves an olive branch

Noah sent out the dove to see if there was any dry land. The olive branch was a sign that there was dry land and they could get off the Ark.

Picture 5: Ark on dry land with animals departing. Rainbow in the sky

Noah and his family and the animals were kept safe through the flood. The rainbow is a sign from God telling us that he will not flood the Earth again.

Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Dylan

Father's Blessing

It has been a month of illness, vacation, and out-of-town conferences. We are back in full-swing with FHE and will post regularly again.

Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Dylan

Lesson: Priesthood Blessings

This was a pretty basic lesson to introduce blessings.

1. What are blessings? A special prayer given by a member of the Priesthood to someone who is sick or in need of counsel, comfort or healing.
2. Can Mom give blessings? Can Tyler give blessings? Can Dylan give blessings? No, only Daddy can give blessings in our family because he holds the Melchizedek Priesthood.
3. Have you ever seen a blessing? Baby Blessings
4. Father's Blessings are special blessings that a father can offer to any member of the family at any time.

Tonight Arthur gave Tyler a father's blessing to prepare him for his upcoming school year.

Activity: Water Balloon Fight

As a side note to this lesson, I wanted to mention that the blessing was a great thing to witness. Tyler was very quiet and stayed still the entire time. He felt very special to be able to receive such a blessing. Immediately after the blessing concluded, he jumped off the chair and exclaimed, "I have to go pee!" and ran to the bathroom. When he finished, he came out and said, "Mommy, that was a REALLY long prayer!"

Learning about Baptism

Song: The Helping Song
Prayer: Dylan

Scripture: Arthur Alma 15:12 - this is an example of someone (Zeezrom) being baptized in the scriptures. There are many other times when the scriptures have mentioned people getting baptized, too.

Lesson: Kerri and Tyler
Learning about Baptism
I used various parts from the August 2008 Friend

We are going to learn a little about baptism tonight.
Can anyone think of someone very special and important that got baptized? (Jesus Christ)

Show a picture of Jesus getting baptized.

Jesus got baptized to show us how important it is for all of us to be baptized.

How old do you have to be to get baptized? (8 years old or older)
Where do you get baptized? (in the water)
What color do you wear when you are baptized? (white)
Who in our family could baptize you? (Dad)

Tyler used the pictures from the activity "When I am Eight Years Old" (Friend, Aug 2008 pg. 33)
to tell us what order things happen when he will be baptized.

1. He will turn 8 years old and will have a birthday party
2. He will talk to the bishop about baptism.
3. He will get baptized.
4. He will receive the Holy Ghost.

Song: Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree
Prayer: Kerri