FHE Update

We have been having so much fun with our Family Home Evening Activities lately.  A few weeks ago we made a mural of Nephi's journey.  We each took a story and drew part of it on a big piece of butcher paper.  It was pretty awesome.  We assigned each of the kids a topic and a night to be in charge.  We let Derek go first.  He was supposed to teach us about the stripling warriors.  He made some visual aids a week in advance.  I kept asking him if he needed help, or wanted me to review the scriptures with him.  Nope.  He had it taken care of.  He asked every day for a week if it was time for his lesson.  This is how it went:
   He welcomed us and we sang a song of his choosing and then had a prayer.  Derek handed each of us a piece of paper and a pencil and told us to write:  STRIPLING WARRIOR on it.  He then gathered all our papers and looked them over and gave us a check mark if we had done well.  Then he showed us his pictures he had drawn of the stripling warriors and asked us to draw our own, just like his.  Then he told us that they were young guys who had to fight the bad guys.  They had to fight because their dads had no weapons.  :)  Then we played Don't Eat Pete.
He loved being in charge (and getting all the attention).  It was fun.

Austin taught us this week.  He was supposed to teach Jonah and the Whale.  He basically told and sang all the parts to the Jonah Liken the Scriptures movie.  It was pretty funny.  It included dancing and when we couldn't remember the words to the song, we finally pulled out the soundtrack so we could listen and dance.  It was fun.  Fun to have a specific time set aside for family, with no interruptions (okay, minimal interruptions.)  Next week Zack will be teaching us about Apostles and then it is Matt's turn to teach us about testimony.  Fun, fun!!