Dear Fam,
This month I read an article in the Ensign about "Teaching the Doctrine of the Family". I felt the strong impression that we needed to really focus on learning about the Family, its purpose, and how we can be stronger as a family unit.
So here's our plan. We are studying the Family Proclamation. Actually we are memorizing it, one paragraph a month for the rest of 2011. One of the paragraphs is really, really long so we are going to split that one in two. But we've already memorized the first paragraph and it's so awesome. You guys are pretty incredible at that.
We are also taking the important principles (faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities), and one at a time they will be our family theme for an entire month. Mostly that means we are studying it every week for family home evening. It's on our garage door as well, vinyl sticker, and we try to talk about it often.
Our first family home evening this month was awesome. We learned about the story of Samuel the Lamanite , and about how he had to have a lot of faith to return to preaching when he had already been thrown out of the city. So we "threw" Daddy out of the living room and when he returned and started preaching on the "city wall" (our ottoman), we pelted him with "rocks" (marshamallows). It was pretty awesome.
Having the monthly theme has really helped keep us on track with Family Home Evening and it's pretty much blessed us in a ton of ways. The "work" month probably won't be so fun but I can bet "wholesome recreational activities" will be a blast.
Love you guys. You are my family. And you are my everything.
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