Thought: Strong families require effort. Your family will be blessed as you do your part to strengthen it. Be cheerful, helpful, and considerate of family members. Many problems in the home come from family members speaking and acting selfishly or unkindly. Seek to be a peacemaker rather than to tease, fight, and quarrel. Show love for your family members each day. Share your testimony with your family through words and actions. Your righteous example can make a difference in strengthening your family. (For the Strength of Youth: Family)
Object Lesson: Hold up a single piece of thread and ask one family member to break the thread. Then hold up a piece of yarn or rope and ask that same family member to try to break that piece as well. Discuss the differences between the thread and the yarn/rope. Ask your family for input on what they believe the various individual threads that make up the rope could represent. (Ex: each family member, prayer, scripture study, temple worship, church attendance, FHE, working together, etc.)
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Lesson Activity: Give sections of Sister Mary N. Cook’s talk “Strengthen Home and Family” to your family, and invite them to look for ways they can help strengthen your home now. Invite them to set some goals based on what they read. (Come, Follow Me) Make sure that their goals are written down and then placed somewhere that they can see them each day as a reminder.
This Week's Challenge: Remind your family of the goals set tonight and encourage them to work hard on keeping those goals. Follow up over the next few weeks to see how following their plans has made a difference.
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