Lesson 10

Lesson Title: "Encouraging Enjoyable Family Activities"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 3 at lds.org.

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will discover ways in which she can encourage enjoyable family activities.

PREPARATION:

1. Provide paper and pencil for each young woman.
2. Prepare a simple paper or fabric bag with the words “Family Fun Sack” written on it.
3. If it is available in your area, you may want to show the video presentation Family First (53119).
4. Assign young women to present any stories, scriptures, or quotations you wish.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Show the young women the family fun sack. Explain that although our families often work together and each family member has many individual responsibilities, it is important for a family to have fun together. Ask the young women to write on a slip of paper a suggestion for a specific activity that they would like to do with their family. (Their ideas may include such things as taking a walk together, playing a game, cooking a favorite food, or going on a vacation.) Have each young woman put her slip of paper into the family fun sack.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

The First Presidency has given us some specific counsel about the time we spend together as families: “Meet together often, and share the problems and successes of the day. Plan your work and activities together so that each person may do his share and contribute to a happy family. We promise that as you do this and as your family members regularly pray together, sing together, read and discuss the scriptures together, and share their testimonies with each other, love and harmony will increase in your home” (Personal Commitment [family home evening manual, 1979-80], p. v). Emphasize the promise of the First Presidency that “love and harmony” will increase in their homes as they help their families have memorable activities together. Each young woman can do much to help her family share enjoyable activities.

MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA: