This year I've made a huge effort to have FHEs every week. Monday is a sacred jujitsu night for Joe, so Wednesday night is FHE for us. I must admit, although sometimes it's a last minute thing and more often than not it involves the girls fighting and me yelling 'listen!!!!' or 'be obedient please!!!!', it is a night that I really enjoy. We've had some cool lessons, fun games and yummy treats.
I love that the girls conduct the meeting from in front of the TV every week. They always start with Choose the Right. We've done things like bury our bad words in the garden, learnt about what it means to wear white clothes and be baptised, make cards for family overseas, traced around the girls bodies and labelled body parts. We've also done gardening, learnt about tithing and how to be good friends at kindy and church.
Last week we had the pleasure of having Uncle Pete and Aunty Bz over for dinner and our lesson. We learnt about obedience (by talking about Nephi building a ship and Samuel the Lamanite being obedient and going back to preach repentance on the wall). Cause we did this on monday and Joe was out, we re-did it on wednesday. I said to Joe tonight that the girls are so disobedient that we might re-do that lesson a couple of nights a week for the next few years. Maybe then it will actually sink in!!!!
On a slightly different note, this year I've also been reading the BoM every day. In the past I've been on again off again, but when I had to give a talk on goal setting on New Years day this year in sacrament, I confessed that it's always one of my goals to read my scriptures daily and it's always something I fail at. That turned out to be a good idea, cause I felt accountable to the whole ward by having them know that I was going to try and conquer it this year.
So I'm pleased to say, that up until now I have read every day this year, even on the night I came home after having Seth, I got out my scriptures and sat up in bed to cuddle my brand new baby and read the Book of Mormon. I've finished it once so far and now I'm 20.2% through it for the second time. Some days when things are really crazy I only read 1/2 a chapter, other nights I do a few in a row. Just depends.
I found a cool app for my phone a few weeks ago called LDS reading chart. So now every day I check off my new chapter and it tells me how much I've read. I really like knowing how far through I am, especially cause I don't see pages numbers now that I read on my phone. And I'm totally loving what I'm learning and the Spirit that I feel as I read that book each and every day. It makes me feel like Mum sometimes cause I often think about how she used to sit in the lounge in the dark (almost) with the sheepskin on her knee in the freezing cold, and read the Book of Mormon. Great example!
And cause we've got the big Family version of the Book of Mormon we're trying to read that every day too. At the moment it's more like 5 days out of the week, which is good but we'll try and get it to 7/7. The girls do one verse each and me and Joe do a couple. Seth does one too (Joe thought it would be funny to talk in a squeaky little voice and say that's Seth....haha). We've done it for almost 3 weeks and I think we're still in chapter 2! I can't imagine going like that the whole way through to the end. The girls will be finished primary school by then surely :)
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