I . Song and Prayer
II . Body of family home evening:
1. Read: "The Proclamation on the Family was issued five years ago by the First Presidency and
the Quorum of the Twelve. The Proclamation on the Family, teaches us of our
responsibility to our children, and the children's responsibility to their parents, and the
parents' responsibility to each other. That marvelous document brings together the scriptural
direction that we have received that has guided the lives of God's children from
the time of Adam and Eve and will continue to guide us until the final winding-up scene.
2. Read: "The Proclamation on the Family" The Proclamation on the Family
3. Read: "Ruby and I were up in Idaho for a short visit, and we met some people from Mountain Home,
Idaho, the Goodrich family. Sister Goodrich had come to see us and had brought her
daughter Chelsea with her. In part of the conversation that we were having, Sister
Goodrich said Chelsea had memorized the proclamation on the family.
To Chelsea, who is now 15 years old, I said, "Chelsea, is that right?"
She said, "Yes."
I said, "How long did it take you to do that?"
She said, "When we were young my mother started a program in our house to help us
memorize. We would memorize scripture passages and sacrament meeting songs and other
types of things that would be helpful to us. So we learned how to memorize, and it
became easier for us."
I said, "Then you can give it all?"
She said, "Yes, I can give it all."
I said, "You learned that when you were 12 years old; you're now 15. Pretty soon you'll start
dating. Tell me about it. What has it done for you?"
Chelsea said, "As I think of the statements in that proclamation, and as I understand more of
our responsibility as a family and our responsibility for the way we live and the way we
should conduct our lives, the proclamation becomes a new guideline for me. As I
associate with other people and when I start dating, I can think of those phrases and those
sentences in the proclamation on the family. It will give me a yardstick which will help guide me.
It will give me the strength that I need."
4. Make a paper chain out of colored paper. Put a family name on each link. Make sure all the links are stapled and glued. Put this somewhere in the home that all of your family can see it.
(use strips of colored paper two inches thick, put the names of all family members on with a permanent marker. glue and staple the ends inside of each other to make a chain.)
5. Read: "So I would say to all of you here this morning, I hope you could develop a strong feeling in your own families--and with you personally--about not wanting to become a weak link in the chain of your family and of your ancestors. I encourage you also to be a strong link for your posterity. Do not be the weak link. Wouldn't that be a terrible thing to do? To think of that long chain and of all that work that needs to be done in the saving of souls and of the precious work that needs to be done, wouldn't it be sad if you were the one who was the weak link that caused your descendants not to be able to be part of that strong linkage?
I leave you my love and my witness and the knowledge that I have that this work is true. I know that God lives. I know that He loves us. He loves us just as we love our children and our posterity. We now have 65 great-grandchildren, and of course we'll have more on their way. We love them all, and we hope that the chains and the links in our family will be strong, and that our children will be blessed. We're proud of all of them and pray that they will grow up with the strong knowledge and the feeling that I have regarding God, that He lives, that He's our Father, and that all of this work is under His direction, that of His Son, who is our Savior, Jesus the Christ. This is the Church of Jesus Christ restored to the earth in these latter days. I know it is true.
I know that we have a living prophet upon the earth today, and you can see the marvelous things that are happening in the Church now with 100 operating temples. Some of you here will live to see the day when there are 200 operating temples and then 300 operating temples, and whatever the number might eventually become. Well, we're living at this time and this day and age when marvelous things are happening. When we talk about a living prophet who receives revelations from on high in directing this work, I testify to you that those of us who work and associate with him can testify to you that he is God's prophet here upon the earth, leading us in doing what is right and what is proper.
May your links be strong. May you personally find the great joy and the happiness that can be ours through living the principles of the gospel. I leave you my love and this witness that the Church is true, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen."
6. Every night for the next month begin memorizing the Proclamation on the Family. continue until all the members of your family have memorized it.
III. Song Prayer and desert.
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