Tip of the Week: Family History for Family Home Evening

This week's tip is to incorporate family history into family home evenings!

Family home evenings are a fantastic time to show your family the importance of family history and encourage your family to participate in it! Family history is all about your family! Why not spend time growing closer to your ancestors along with your family here on earth?

"In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities. Families lie at the center of our Heavenly Father’s plan. This statement from “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” declares the responsibilities of parents to their families: “Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. ‘Children are an heritage of the Lord’ (Psalms 127:3). Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations.”" -L. Tom Perry, "The Importance of the Family," Ensign, May 2003

“We counsel parents and children to give highest priority to family prayer, family home evening, gospel study and instruction, and wholesome family activities. However worthy and appropriate other demands or activities may be, they must not be permitted to displace the divinely-appointed duties that only parents and families can adequately perform.” -First Presidency letter, February 11, 1999.

FHE Family History Ideas

Songs: 

• Families Can Be Together Forever

• Family History-I Am Doing It

• I Have a Family Tree

• Here We Are Together

• The Hearts of the Children

• Truth from Elijah

• The Lord Gave Me A Temple

Activities/Games: 

• Families Are Forever Pedigree Chart

• Family Interview Printable

• Can You Hear Them? Do I Look Like My Ancestor? All About Me!

• Also check under the "Activities" tab!

I know that when we make families a priority we will receive the blessings God has promised. I know that family home evening should be highly valued and implemented whenever possible. I know that our families extend from our ancestors to our descendants and that we can grow closer to them and our Savior, Jesus Christ, when we participate in family history work. 

3 Nephi 18:21

D&C 93:40

Mosiah 4:14-15