Tuesday, May 11, 2010

{LosCuellar.com.mx 429} ACTIVIDAD: How much does your family know about your grandparents, great-grandparents or any other ancestors?

Daddy, Do Not Leave Me Here
By C.S. Bezas

How much does your family know about your grandparents, great-grandparents or any other ancestors? Here is a simple and easy Family Home Evening lesson that can help you in this most worthwhile effort. Time for some FHE Fun!

Opening Song:  #291 Turn Your Hearts

Opening Prayer:  By invitation.

Emergency Preparedness Moment: What emergency preparedness activity would you like to do this week for your family? Make this a matter of prayer and you will be surprised at the promptings you can receive. These few minutes every seven days during FHE can help your children be ready for a variety of emergencies. Problem solving skills, first aid skills, putting together backpack 72-hour kits, or any other kind of creative endeavor shows your family you love them and teaches them how to take care of themselves in tough scenarios. What will you choose this week?

Devotional:  Devotionals can be a way to bring a sweet spirit to FHE and to show your children you value the scriptures Try using a "favorite verse" time to jumpstart the actual FHE lesson. A moment of short-verse-reading-and-testimony-sharing can bring a powerful spirit to your home and help settle the children for a more spiritual FHE learning time.

Lesson: 

Items Needed:

  • Read in advance the Ensign article, "Daddy, Do Not Leave Me Here." Pray about its application for your family and what, if any part, you might want to share during FHE.

  • Gather pictures of grandparents, great-grandparents and/or other ancestors.

  • Print out their names and cut into individual strips of paper.

  • Find several interesting stories to share about a few of these relatives.

(Note: You are the one blessed by the Lord to know what your family needs spiritually during weekly FHEs. Feel free to get ideas from the sample lesson listed below, but make sure to go to the Lord in prayer to determine what your family really needs for this week. It might be something completely different!)

1. Pull out the photos of family ancestors or living relatives. Let the family admire the different pictures. Then pull out the name strips and challenge the family: How long will it take you to match the correct names to the photos of relatives?

2. Enjoy their efforts. You might even choose not to offer assistance, other than answering whether or not every name is accurately matched.

3. Once correctly named, read or tell a few stories about some of the ancestors that might fascinate your family.

Read the following quote:

"It remains the responsibility of each individual to know his kindred dead. … Even if the [temple] work is done, then it is still each person's responsibility to study and become acquainted with his ancestors" (President Joseph Fielding Smith quoted in Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894–1994 (1995), 184). (Read the talk in its entirety here.)

You may have another scripture you would like to reference, or you could read from this one in Malachi 4:5-6:

"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

Ask the family why the Lord's way urgently includes strengthening family relationships through the centuries. What suggestions might the group have how the family can seek to learn more about their ancestors? Perhaps you could begin a family journal of both current and past family histories for future posterity's sake. Set goals and then close with your feelings and/or testimony.

Closing Song. #300 Families Can Be Together Forever

Closing Prayer. By invitation.

Struggling with your teens? C.S. Bezas' book is an essential help for parents and youth leaders. Powerful Tips for Powerful Teachers teaches you how to create powerful change. Visit your local LDS bookstore or get your copy online here.


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Benicio Samuel Sanchez
Email: samuelsanchez@genealogia.org.mx
Website:  http://www.Genealogia.org.mx
Cell Phone (81) 1667-2480

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Por medio de la historia familiar descubrimos el árbol más hermoso de la creación: nuestro árbol genealógico. Sus numerosas raíces se remontan a la historia y sus ramas se extienden a través de la eternidad. La historia familiar es la expresión extensiva del amor eterno; nace de la abnegación y provee la oportunidad de asegurarse para siempre una unidad familiar".
(Élder J. Richard Clarke, Liahona julio de 1989, pág.69)

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