Guide to the Friend

Possible Ideas for Family Home Evening

1. Use the Bringing Primary Home lesson and activity to learn more about this month’s Primary theme (pages 40–41). Sing “I Want to Be a Missionary Now” (Children’s Songbook, 168). Discuss ways your family can support the missionaries serving in your area.

2. As you prepare to listen to general conference, read the ninth article of faith (page 22). Talk about why it is important to have a prophet today.

3. Read “Be a Family Builder” (pages 24–25) and talk about the different families each person is a part of. Set a goal for each family member to help strengthen your family this week. Report on those goals during your next family home evening.

4. Read “Honors” (pages 4–5) and talk about the choice Ethan made to keep the Sabbath day holy. As a family, create a list of activities that are appropriate to do on Sunday.

5. After reading “The Dinner Game” (pages 20–21), play Scripture Quotes as a family. Why is it important to know the stories in the scriptures?

Topical Index to this Issue of the Friend

(FLF) = For Little Friends

(f) = Funstuf

(IFC) = inside front cover

• Articles of Faith

  22

  23

• Choose the Right

  4

  7

  14

  30

  35 (FLF)

  36

• Church History

  16

  49

• Courage

  4

  8

• Disabilities

  18

• Divorce

  42

  44

• Education

  2

• Family

  10 (f)

  11

  18

  20

  24

  29

  42

  44

• Family Home Evening

  40

• Friend

  IFC

• Friendship

  30

  32–35 (FLF)

• General Conference

  12

• Goals

  12

• Happiness

  27

• Heavenly Father

  22

  24

  28

  40

  44

• Holy Ghost

  18

  44

• Jesus Christ

  7

  14

  23

  30

  45

• Journals

  12

• Love and Kindness

  14

  18

  30

  45

• Missionary Work

  IFC

  16

  27

  32 (FLF)

  40

  46

• My Gospel Standards

  2

  4

  6

  7

  14

  24

  30

  35 (FLF)

• New Testament

  14

• Old Testament

  26 (f)

• Poster

  11

  49

• Prayer

  28

  36

  44

• Primary

  8

  40

• Prophets

  2

  20

  22

• Quorum of the Seventy

  11

  12

  27

• Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

  6

  12

  16

  36

  42

• Sabbath

  4

  30

• Scriptures

  IFC

  14

  20

  22

  23

  26 (f)

  49

• Service

  30

  36

• Temples

  6

  7

  11

• Word of Wisdom

  30

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