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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.
From Come, Follow Me:
What do we learn about the Lord and His miracles from this chapter? What miracles—big or small—have we seen in our lives?
What are the miracles that brought your ancestors and other family members into the church? Perhaps you are the first convert in your family! We can all be inspired by the conversion stories in the scriptures, church history, and from our ancestors.
"Frederick Christian Sorensen is my husband's second great-grandfather whose influence has now been felt by six generations of his posterity. My husband's niece illustrated his conversion story when she was a young girl which created a special bond between them.
See A Miracle In Denmark.
Dennis Neuenschwander said, "Every family has keepsakes. Families collect furniture, books, porcelain, and other valuable things, then pass them on to their posterity. Such beautiful keepsakes remind us of loved ones now gone and turn our minds to loved ones unborn. They form a bridge between family past and family future."
Elder Neuenschwander went on to explain that even more valuable than these objects are the genealogies, family stories, historical accounts, and traditions that we keep and pass on. However, the objects themselves can serve as wonderful, tangible reminders of those stories, making doubly sure the stories continue to be told and retold, stitching hearts together across generations. (Bridges and Eternal Keepsakes)
Share items that remind you and your family of family history miracles. You could create a Digital Museum to view often. The following video illustrates how this might work. The story begins at 4:14.
See also: Keeping the Stories of Family Heirlooms Alive.
From Come, Follow Me:
As you read these verses and ponder the simple thing Naaman was asked to do, consider the simple things our prophet has asked us to do. How can our family better follow his counsel?
President Nelson spoke during the women's session about gathering Israel. In 2016 he addressed millennials: "Spend more time—much more time—in places where the Spirit is present. That means more time with friends who are seeking to have the Spirit with them. Spend more time on your knees in prayer, more time in the scriptures, more time in family history work, more time in the temple. I promise you that as you consistently give the Lord a generous portion of your time, He will multiply the remainder." (Becoming True Millennials (see also this article))
President Nelson also invited the youth to gather Israel on both sides of the veil to prepare for the second coming of the Lord (see a short video segment here). "Are you willing to enlist in the youth battalion of the Lord to help gather Israel?"
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 ..." (A Sacrifice Of Time)
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.
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. Weekly Activities for Family History 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 for breaking family history activities into smaller segments and fitting them into your busy schedule!
“They that be with us are more than they that be with them.”
From Come, Follow Me:
Have you ever felt outnumbered and fearful, wondering, as Elisha’s young servant did, “How shall we do?” (see 2 Kings 6:8–23). What inspires you about Elisha’s answer? How does this account change the way you think and feel about your trials, your responsibilities, or your efforts to live the gospel?
Elisha sought when he prayed on behalf of his fearful young servant, “Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see” (2 Kings 6:17).
Joseph F. Smith said, "When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred [and] friends . . . . In like manner, our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters, and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges, may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, bringing from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, of reproof and instruction to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh." (read more here).
"The Lord so declared: 'I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.' What a promise! When we are faithful, He and His angels will help us." (Russell M. Nelson, April General Conference 2011)
Find activities to get to know your ancestors in FamilySearch Discovery and in The Family History Guide Activities pages and in Weekly Family History Activities. See also 10 Ways to Find Ancestor's Stories, your FamilySearch fan chart, and check out the All The Stories site to see a searchable list of all the stories on your part of the tree. Write a letter of gratitude to one or more and audio record it on FamilySearch Memories.
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"In the gospel of Jesus Christ, you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike—and they will—you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed." (Jeffrey R. Holland, Created for Greater Things)
Research in U.S. States
You can use The Family History Guide to do research in any of the 50 U.S. states, plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. In the United States page look under the Statue of Liberty picture for the state link you need. Goals include Basic Research, Vital Records, Church and Cemetery, Immigration, and more.