Family Home Evening Fun

Delaney has been eager to give the lesson for Family Home Evening for quite a while now.  She planned a wonderful lesson.  She told the story about Lehi's Dream of the Tree of Life and the Iron Rod.and gave her personal insights about it.  I had them all share thoughts they had of the story then Delaney, Liam, Cailin and I created this yummy looking fruit pizza.  Can you see the Iron Rod and the Tree of Life?

The flour game...pack flour into a cup. Invert the cup and hope the flour keeps the shape of the cup.  Place a quarter on top.  Everyone takes a turn and cut some flour from the cup formation until the quarter falls....but you don't want to be the one that let the quarter fall!

As a child we played this often for FHE....I forgot all about it until I read how Mom and Dad....oops, I meant President and Sister Stumm shared it with others at a branch activity in Africa.   My kids loved it too!  It's a keeper!

This is an excerpt from a letter to Ss. E. Stumm that Barry wrote about our FHE's once a month with others in our ward....

Last May my mom came to me with an idea, she began holding family home evenings and inviting one or two members that she felt were lonely or maybe felt a little distant from the church. Vicki and I picked up on the idea and have begun to hold one home evening per month in which we invite less actives, investigators, and anyone else we think would benefit, to our home for dinner and a lesson. The sister missionaries are always there and we have encouraged them to bring anyone they want too.

The upshot of this is that our last meeting in July brought about 32 people in. We supply the main course and everyone can bring whatever they want to the meal. Yes, we have some interesting food, but everyone is usually at ease and comfortable. We have about a 15 minute lesson and then everyone sets around and do what people do best, talk. I have been amazed at the response. So many people have come up and told us how much they enjoyed the meeting, and some folks come back each month. We feel the spirit there very strongly and have come to realize it is our best way to participate in missionary work.

I don’t know if you were here when Neal A. Maxwell visited our state. It was several years ago. One thing that he said was that there was a stake within our stake struggling to be born. I have thought much about that as our little family home evening program has taken off. I did not realize that so many people feel a distance between themselves and the gospel. I did not realize that offering some simple ways of fellowship could meet with such huge successes. I know that there is a ward in this town, waiting to be born. I feel it so strongly that it makes me a little scared to be a part of it. I am afraid of screwing it up. But I know that this is the time for this town. The work is here and it is coming. Our town needs it. We have a huge drug problem here and it goes from generation to generation. Also there is much poverty here as well as poverty in education. Yet I know that there are good folks here too, just waiting for the opportunity to hear the gospel. This ward will be built from the ground up by the humble people of this area.