FHE idea

At the beginning of the year we decided to highlight one person from the scriptures with each FHE lesson. Their picture or other reminder is displayed in our home for the week and we discuss a lesson that that person's story represents. For example, this past Monday we talked about the 10 virgins and procrastination. Aiden and Alexis have both been falling down in their school work because they haven't been doing it on time. When we talked about the 10 virgins we got to discuss both spiritual preparedness and also every day preparedness/procrastination. Some others that we have done are:

Haman- learning the consequences of doing things that hurt other people
Laman and Lemuel- when we ask for God's help we need to also follow his laws.
David (we will do him again because there is so much there)- courage
Shad., Meshac, Abed. and Daniel- Word of Wisdom, keeping our bodies healthy
Balaam- obeying God, kindness to animals


So far it is going really well and the kids are excited each week to see who we are going to learn about next. It is sometimes easier to find person to highlight and to discuss his or her story than to decide, "What are we going to talk about tonight?"