#LightTheWorld Day 5

#LightTheWorld Day 5

Matthew 15:4 KJV
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him diethe death.

What can we do today to honor our parents as a family:

• Doubt not the good things you were taught as a child
• Being obedient
• I called/Facetimed my mom yesterday to see me and her grandson.

#LightTheWorld Day 4

#LightTheWorld Day 4

Matthew 22:39 KJV
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Ways we can love our neighbors as a family:

• Respect our neighbors space/privacy

2017 The First Presidency Christmas Devotional

Last night was my church's (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). This is where the first presidency (The Prophet, first counselor, and second counselor) gather people to listen either at the conference center or via the internet. They ask in advance three Elders or Sisters to speak that night and ask the conductor to pick three Christmas songs for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to sing. The speakers and conductor pray most earnestly to know what to put in their talks or what to sing, it is by the Holy Ghost that prompts them with a thought or feeling that this is what they should be taught or be listening to.

The music the conductor picked:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
What Shall We Give
Glory to God
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Silent Night (The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang the first two verses & congregation joined in in the third verse.)

The based of what I got out of the devotional was to love and not to stop loving.
The first talk was told by a Sister who told us Christmas is the season to give love, service, and forgiveness.
The second talk was told by an Elder about love.
The third talk was told by an Elder about never ending love toward someone and not to be embarrassed about being poor. Currently my husband works from Monday mornings to Friday Afternoons and on Saturday he goes to school full time. We are still living under our means, but when we were at college we were living on less than we have today. We went to thrift shops to find 'new' things and shopped at  Walmart or Albertsons (which ever one had cheaper products). We even had a couch the renters before us left for us because they didn't want it and we didn't have any couch, table, or chairs, we only had our bed and frame.

Have a Merry Christmas!
Here's the link to the Christmas 2017 devotional:
https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/archive/christmas-devotional/2017/12?cid=HP_SU_3-12-2017_dPFD_fBCAST_xLIDyL1-C_&lang=eng

FHE: How can we be like the Stripling Warriors in the Book of Mormon in our day?

FHE Lesson: How can we be like the Stripling Warriors in the the Book of Mormon in our day?

Songs:
Hymn
7 Israel, Israel God Is Calling
82 For All the Saints
246 Onward Christian Soldier
248 Up, Awake, Oh Ye Defenders of Zion
250 We Are All Enlisted
251 Behold! A Royal Army

Children's Songbook
Holding Hands Around the World
Scripture Power
Two Thousand Stripling Warriors
Two Thousand Stripling Warriors (LeBaron)

Scriptures:
Alma 53:20-21, 56:9-11 (traits of the stripling warriors)
Alma 56:46 (How God was with them)
Alma 56:47-48, 57:21 (Doubt not what their mothers taught them)
Alma 56:27 (Their fathers helping provide for them during the war)
Alma 56:56 (After their battle)
Alma 57: 19-20 (How they conquered fatigue)
Alma 57: 25-26, 58:40 (Health of the stripling warriors)
Alma 57:27 (Their faith never dwindling)
Alma 58:9-11 (Feeling fear & grief, which is of Satan, they prayed for strength and were assured by God)
Alma 58:33 & 37 (Their trust in God)

Videos:
Stripling Warriors by Elder M. Russell Ballard (2:41)
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2012-08-2520-stripling-warriors?lang=eng

Mothers & Daughters by Elder M. Russell Ballard
https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-06-0070-mothers-and-daughters?lang=eng

Questions:

1. As a mother/father/bro/sis/friend what can I/we do to strengthen our family/friends/ church?
2. As a child of God what can I do to strengthen my testimony/life?

Answers:

1. Read your scriptures together as a family and personally, Pray together as a family and personally, bear testimony of the thing you know are to be true.
2. Read the Book of Mormon and pray of its truthfulness, and bear your testimony at home, school, church, etc.

Activities:

Stripling Warriors game board

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghM9sfJe7R323jSFqtzfwMRRGsPMmd458H38DTIkASYArBASgyVw2H9AXN6Ef7vlP-nCzjx-WdAECkHayH121JZAGIliH655r6ddPzfw03XPIMK4dN7RGzrM0JbCEQANWq8QVb2QDgUE/s1600/scan0033.jpg

James H. Fullmer's Book of Mormon Battles card game

 

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Mormon-Battles-James-Fullmers/dp/1591565685/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512057693&sr=8-1&keywords=James+H.+fullmer%27s+Book+of+Mormon+battles

Book of Mormon Quest

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Of-Mormon-Quest-of/dp/156684049X/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1512058286&sr=1-1&keywords=Book+of+Mormon+quest

Pioneer-Plus Book of Mormon bands

https://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Plus-Mormon-Bands-Headband/dp/B075LQBDN3/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1512059156&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=book+of+mormon+bands&psc=1

Book of Mormon Headbands (I made up)

What you will need:

Book of Mormon Battle cards (or something similar, I know $$ is tight!)

Headbandz headbands (optional)

Timer (30 sec. or less)

Tokens (beans, pennies, etc)

Object of the game:

The first player to get rid (or gets) all of the chips wins!

Set Up

Place each of the cards face down in the middle of the playing area and read over the Headbanz Rules.

Each player then takes a headband and adjusts it around his or her head (or holds it on their forehead).

Deal out one card, facedown, to each participant.  Be sure to keep the Rules close in case any of the players have questions.

Players then place each card into the clip of his or her headband.  Be sure not to look at it as you put it in the headband!  All other players must be able to see the picture.

Each player gets three chips, to be handed out by dealer.  Any leftover chips become the “bank”‘s property. Or no chips unless you win the card on your forehead.

Play

The youngest participant takes the first turn (or to the left/right of the dealer).  Then play passes to the left.

When it’s your turn, just flip over the timer and ask each of the players a question that will help you figure out what the picture is on your head.  

Once you’ve asked each player a question, simply begin another round and then another.

The question cards provide examples of the types of questions that you could ask to help you figure out what the picture is on your head.  No one has to follow the sample questions exactly, but players are not allowed to ask, “What am I?”.  However they may ask, “Am I a…?”

If you guess the picture before the timer runs out, simply take another card and put it behind your headband. Continue to ask questions until the timer runs out.  For each picture that is guessed correctly, you simply put one of your chips into the “bank”, signaling the end of your turn.

Players are always free to give up guessing at any point during their turn.  But if that player does give up, they must take a chip from the bank. Or not gain a chip for not winning the card.

#LightTheWorld Day 3

#LightTheWorld Day 3

Matthew 12:12 KJV
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Ways we can help others on the sabbath as a family:

• I took care of my friends daughters and our son while my husband and friends practiced singing for the Christmas program on the 17th.

#LightTheWorld Day 2

#LightTheWorld Day 2

Matthew 25:35 KJV
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Ways my family can bless others in need today:

• By watching our son while my husband was at school all day.

#LightTheWorld Day 1

#LightTheWorld Day 1

Matthew 10:8 KJV
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast outdevils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Ways my family gave freely today:

• I read my scriptures and instead of hopping on my phone after I had finished reading I decided to play with my son by taking two stuffed animals (like G.I. Joe or Barbie's) and talked to him and laughed a lot!
• My son & I take some our neighborhood friend and her daughters out to a play yard (like inside McDonald's, Del Taco, etc.)
• My husband said something kind to one of his coworkers.