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