Family Home Evening -- Week 10

I wanted to try to do something a little bit better this week, since we've been such slackers the last month. Last week we got our Friend magazine and I flipped through it and found an article about teaching the kids to mark their scriptures.

Why you would want to mark them.
How to mark them.
What colors to use
How to do it neatly

I decided that would be the perfect lesson to go along with them reading the Book of Mormon in Primary this year. I had Ryan pick up two new Book of Mormons for the kids and I told them to listen closely and that I had a big surprise for them. First we talked about the scriptures and how they were important and how to take care of them and then I gave them each their own copy. They were thrilled. We read through chapter 1 of 1st Nephi and discussed it. Then we talked about which scripture stood out the most to them and helped them highlight it.

We are going to find and mark an important scripture each week at the beginning of family night. I'm hoping for them to gain a familiarity with the Book of Mormon, and an understanding of how important it is. We also sang the songs "Scripture Power" ( an all time favorite of course) and I taught them "The Books of the Book of Mormon", which they kind of already knew, but we learned the second verse.

All in all it was a great lesson. It was one of those times I could tell they were listening and understanding and they were very into the lesson.