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Come, Follow Me is a resource offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is designed to be used in the home to support personal and family scripture study to build faith in Heavenly Father and His plan of salvation and in the Savior Jesus Christ and His Atonement. Come, Follow Me is self-contained and adequate, when used properly. Products and materials designed to supplement this resource, though they may be helpful in some instances, are not necessary for a successful home study program.
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Are there stories from the scriptures, from your family history, or from your own life you could share that have taught you that nothing is too hard for the Lord?
The following activity ideas can help us find these stories and learn about ways to share and preserve them:
Discover ancestor stories on the FamilySearch Fan Chart along with Family lines, birth country, sources, photos, research helps, and ordinances.
You can print a chart with any of this information. Make a fan chart placemat or frame and hang a chart on the wall for fun! Play Fan Chart Bingo (see Week #9: Come, Follow Me Companion 2020), or toss dice onto the chart and share a fact or story about the person it lands on. If you don't know much about that relative or ancestor, this is a great time to use the ideas here to discover more about him or her!
Diaries, letters, postcards, scrapbooks, photos, baby books and other passed-down items from trunks, closets, and attics hold "everyday life" details and stories you won't find anywhere else. Go through your house (and your relatives' houses, if they'll let you) for these home sources and examine them for clues. Watch this video to see how one man discovered his grandfather through a box of photos and a movie reel that was given to him.
Find ancestor stories by clicking the Memories tab on the FamilySearch Person page for each ancestor. Check out the following sites for more options: Women of Faith, Military Records of Your Family's War Veterans, My Pioneer Ancestors, Missionaries, How to Discover Your Ancestor's Occupation, and Where Are My Ancestors From?: Map & Country Info.
The All The Stories site is a free way to synchronize with FamilySearch all the stories of your direct ancestors and their siblings back 9 generations. It has a searchable list of any story anyone has placed on your part of the tree, along with how you are related to that ancestor, and how long the story takes to tell.
Once you find stories, check out the ideas in the Come, Follow Me Companion Week #8 2020 for sharing and preserving them. You could also search in The Family History Guide to find even more ways. Find ideas in FamilySearch blogs such as Using FamilySearch Apps to Record [and Share] Oral Histories, Simple Start to Family History. See also: Ideas and Help for Using Social Media – "The New Language of Family History."
The Family History Guide can help you with step-by-step instructions for the following categories in the FamilySearch Project 2: Memories:
The Family History Guide Activities Index offers a myriad of ways to find, learn, record, and share ancestor stories, stories of living relatives, and personal stories. For example:
Enjoy "story nights" to share the stories you have found, and talk about what you learn from them. Share them at mealtimes and when traveling. Use them for bedtime stories and as gifts. Share every way you can! You and your family could also audio or video record the telling of these stories (and their influence in your lives) as you share them.
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These verses can help your family members prepare for times when they need to flee from wicked situations. What might some of these situations be? For example, you might have a discussion about inappropriate media or the temptation to gossip. How can we flee from such situations?
Stephen Jezek was able to feel the Spirit again, overcome addictions, and get baptized because of his experience indexing. You can find many helpful resources for families at AddressingPornography. ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Give indexing a try with easy instructions from The Family History Guide: FamilySearch Project 5, Indexing.
Activity ideas and resources:
Read more experiences here.
From Come, follow Me
What have we been asked to sacrifice as a family? How have these sacrifices brought us closer to God?
President Nelson: "I invite you prayerfully to consider what kind of sacrifice, and preferably a sacrifice of time, you can make to do more family history and temple work.” Read or watch the full talk "A Sacrifice of Time" here. See a clip below:
See also:
An idea to help both individuals and families do temple and family history work more consistently comes from an address Sister Wendy Nelson gave to the sisters of the church in a women's conference talk in 2015.
She offered the invitation to busy, overburdened sisters to do some temple and family history work each day for 21 days and then to watch what happened. She was concerned that adding one more thing to their list of things "to do" would make them even more burdened but the opposite was true for all who participated. Even a few minutes per day helped them to see miracles in their lives and the lives of their families. Although this challenge was given to sisters of the church, it is applicable to everyone. Here are the links to the PDF and the video of Sister Nelson's talk:
Discuss ideas and options and make a plan! Think about routines and traditions you can create. You may want to calendar your goals and record how you will work toward them. The Come, Follow Me Companion makes it easy, effective, and exciting to correlate temple and family history activities into your weekly study of the scriptures.
See also Family Activities: 5-Minute Ideas for Latter-day Saints. In addition, Week 29 (Come, Follow Me Companion 2020) elaborates on some of these activities, and has even more fun and creative ideas and resources for ways to break family history activities into smaller segments and fit them into your busy schedule!
You may also want to join the Facebook group for The Twenty-one Day Family Connections Experiment and select a plan to follow for ideas and motivation. The Come, Follow Me Companion is included as one of their community contributed plans. Read more about all of the plans here.
Explore four key ways to discover where your ancestors (and you) are from.
Check out FS Project 4, Goal 10 in The Family History Guide for help learning how to do the FamilySearch activity Where Am I From?. This experience helps you visualize locations, relationships, and ancestral heritage with pictures and charts. See this blog post for even more ideas and examples.