Guide to the Friend

The Guide to the Friend is a new feature that will appear monthly on these two pages of the magazine. It can help you find stories or articles for preparing lessons or talks for church or for family home evening. Also included is subscription and submission information.

Family Home Evening Ideas

If your parents ask you to help plan a family home evening, you may want to use an idea from the Friend. Here are some ideas in this issue that you may like (look for the FHE symbol on the [original magazine] pages mentioned):

1. Make the flannel-board figures and use them to tell the story “Ammon’s Example” (pages 14–15). Then tell the story “Missionary Challenge” (pages 8–11) and talk about how Aaron Anderson tried to follow Ammon’s example. Decide how you can follow it as a family.

2. Read Elder Richard H. Winkel’s counsel on following the prophet (pages 6–7). Share the two stories “Fernando’s Call” (pages 2–4) and “Just Being Neighbors” (pages 22–23) as examples of how others are trying to follow the prophet. Ask each family member to tell one thing they are doing or plan to do to follow the prophet.

3. Invite a younger family member to memorize and present the poem “What Lasts?” (pages 24–25). Then read the story “Combing Grandma’s Hair” (pages 36–38). Determine to each do something nice for another family member during the week.

4. Relate the two experiences in “Joseph Smith Said He Saw Two Personages” (pages 40–41) and “You Can’t Give Up” (page 21). Discuss the many ways we can share our testimonies with others.

5. Play the game “Let Your Light Shine” (pages 42–43). Then make the family home evening owl (pages 32–33), and use him to help you to always set a good example during family home evenings. Talk about ways you can let your light shine at church.

6. Make “Crispy Butterscotch Sundaes” or “Spiral Bread” (page 26) for refreshments.