“Reader’s Guide,” New Era, Oct. 2000, 47

Reader’s Guide

Creative ideas for using this issue of the New Era.

Family Home Evening Ideas

As a family, read the sacrament prayers found in Doctrine and Covenants 20:77, 79. Identify the promises we make to the Lord, and identify the blessings that come from the Lord when we take the sacrament.
Using the Idea List “Always Remember Him” on page 15 as a springboard, discuss how you and your family can make partaking of the sacrament more meaningful. Ask your family members to share the ways they try to remember Christ in sacrament meeting.
Decide with your family how you can reach out to the less-active people you come in contact with. The Q&A has some useful suggestions. Add to the list of suggestions, and decide on a family in your ward or branch that might benefit from your family’s attention.

President Gordon B. Hinckley gives some great guides for more effective prayers in the Message, “Be Prayerful,” on page 4. Make a goal to use at least one of his suggestions in your prayers.
After reading about how to be a good role model in Of All Things on page 38, think about ways you might be an even better example.
Develop your talents through using them. Enter the 2001 New Era contest. The details are in the rules section, “Small and Simple Things,” on page 48.

Ask someone who has overcome something particularly difficult like the author in “Just Live through the Night” on page 8 to come and speak to your class or quorum.
Read the story “All That Glitter” on page 26. Invite the person in charge of maintaining your chapel or meetinghouse to take the Young Women and Young Men through the building and explain what needs to be done to maintain and clean it. Or you could even clean the building from top to bottom as a combined activity.

After you read about how Kim Nahler assists the animals in her area in “All Creatures Great and Small” on page 20, you might visit an animal shelter or sanctuary in your area to get some ideas for projects you could do to help them.