Family Home Evening

What makes family home evening successful?

• Start and end with prayer. This invites the Spirit, increases love, and teaches your family how to pray.
• Learn from the scriptures and words of latter-day prophets to help your family live the gospel.
• Add music, such as hymns and Primary songs, to create an atmosphere of love, peace, and joy.
• Make it fun by playing games, acting out scripture stories, and making treats. Keep the atmosphere light and loving. 
• Be consistent. Monday nights are set aside by the Church for family home evening. If that doesn't work find a night that does.
• Add variety. Help a neighbor in need, hold a lesson in the park, or go for a walk as a family.

"We cannot afford to neglect this heaven-inspired program. It can bring spiritual growth to each member of the family, helping him or her to withstand the temptations which are everywhere. The lessons learned in the home are those that last the longest." President Thomas S. Monson

Resources

• lds.org search FHE, manuals (home and family; family guidebook; a parent's guide; gospel art book; cornerstones of a happy home;

• FHE Resource Book

• Ensign

• Friend

Woodville 1st Ward: Favorite Family Home Evening Ideas

• Natural Disaster Preparations - Weston Kelley
• Have each family member write what they appreciate about other family members and present it - Sam Hulse
• Play a game that ties to a gospel principle - Sam Hulse
• Covenants--especially baptismal for youth - Ryan Searle
• Games with children that teach the gospel - Jonathan Jensen
• Visitor Center and Temple Grounds - Michelle Hulse
• Going down to the river and making s'mores - Gina Andrews
• Sardines - Dalan Andrews
• Bearing Testimonies - Cathy Lind
• Having "spotlights" - Lynne Williams
• Playing a game together after the lesson - Willard Price
• Invite neighbors to join your family
• Give service to those in need
• Clean turkey coop
• Game night (X-box)
• Cow tipping
• Scripture Reading

October Activity: Self-Defense

Self-Defense
Thank you Tringle Witt for teaching the sisters such a GREAT class! You are AWESOME!!!

A few highlights from the class:

• First step to keeping yourself safe is HOW YOU APPEAR TO OTHERS. Do you appear to be an easy victim? (They are looking for easy targets--DON'T be that!). Don't look vulnerable, be STRONG & CONFIDENT!
• Eyes--make eye contact with those around you--let people know you see them, be aware of your surroundings.
• Voice--use a confident voice.
• Arms--loosely to side.
• Back/Neck--upright, shoulder back, not hunched.
• Speed--maintain your pace, don't rush or look scared.

• General Rules of Self-Defense
• Follow the promptings of the Spirit! Listen.
• Never let anyone force you in a car. (kick, scream, fight--cause a scene!)
• Never let anyone force you do to anything you don't want to.
• Your voice is a valuable self defense tool.
• Fight until you can get help or get out of there.
• Eyes, Nose, Throat, Ears, Knee, Groin 
• Practice will give you confidence, as well as something for the spirit to work with.
• Identify with your attacker (talk with them, try to get them to feel human, make a connection)
• Be able to describe and identify your attacker.

Contact Tringle Witt for more information on free/discount classes and seminars on self defense.