Obedience FHE

After General Conference Doug had a great idea for a lesson.
President Thomas S. Monson's talk on Obedience was the focus.

We had the girls watch as he told the story about the fire. And then we discussed it and asked them questions about it. Then we thought about what would have happened if he had been obedient and asked his parents to help him.

Then Doug had prepared chocolate covered marshmallows and chocolate covered onions. He gave them each 3 marshmallows and 1 onion and told them, "If you eat these (mallows) you will really like them, but if you eat this one (onion) it will not be good."

We left them to make their choices. Allie ate the mallows and then sat and stared at the onion (not knowing what it was). She was so obedient but wanted to eat it really bad! Here she is in serious thought about to eat or not to eat.

Katelyn just went for it and ate it right away. Allie's face is so funny. She couldn't believe Katelyn was not following the rules!

She was not too happy about it. We asked her if it was good and she just shook her head and said, "This is really tasty" (which means it's really bad).

 We told Allie she could try it if she wanted to and after seeing what happened to Katelyn she was like, Heck no!

Family Home Evening

Each week we try to have one night that we spend as a family. We have a lesson, activity, treats, and fun together. Last Fall a group of my friends got together and we made a year of Family Home Evening lessons. We centered them around the Primary theme for each month. Each person took a month and planned 3 lessons that went along with that theme. So we have awesome lessons for 3 of the weeks and then on the 4th week we can teach something specific for our own family. I was in charge of February and we have had fun doing the lessons. Last week it was about our bodies.

We started the lesson by standing at the top of the stairs and looked down at our pajamas laying down on the floor. We talked about how our spirits were in heaven and needed to come down to Earth to receive a body. I asked them questions like, "Could your body dance without your spirit in it? Eat? Play? All of which the answers were no. Then I had them go down to Earth, put their pajamas on and now their spirits were in their bodies and could do all kinds of things (which we had to try out for awhile). We also read from a talk given by Russell M Nelson called, "You Are a Child of God." 

Then we sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" and "Hokey Pokey." We finished by tracing their bodies onto paper and they got to color them. That was their favorite part. 

I will try to share more of the FHE's that we do throughout the year...the ones that go really well at least!!

Allie's ponytail was flipped up so that looks cool and she was totally into this...making sure she matched her pajamas!

Katelyn's little buns on the top of her head made her look like a frog and she drew a couple squiggles and called it good.