Week 14: Last one!

My last post for this blog! I've enjoyed posting. This last week we talked about efforts to protect marriage internationally and some general practices to strengthen the family. Enjoy!


The good news: International agencies are taking interest in strengthening the family and we are not alone! BYU is well represented in this scene and has made a large difference; we have lead, along with other faiths, many international movements to define marriage as between one man and one woman and to declare the family to be the basic unit of society. There is much work left to be done but there is hope!


Strengthening the family: Ideas for keeping the Sabbath day holy

1. Wear sabbath clothes all day. It's important to make this day different from all of the other days.
2. Many families choose not to watch TV on Sunday except for religious programs. If you do watch television on Sunday, do not watch everyday programs. Again, this day is meant to be different.
3. Spend Sunday with family; play with friends on other days.
4. Play church music.
5. Parents can read patriarchal blessings with their children and talk about the guidance therein.
6. Have a family testimony meeting on fast sunday. Your children want to hear your testimony.
7. Ask your children after they have broken their fast what they have been prompted to do - share your own promptings with them.
8. Knock on a child's bedroom door, go in, sit down, and just listen.
9. Call family members.
10. Go to a retirement home.
11. Sing as a family - play instruments and memorize hymns.
12. Read an inspirational book aloud.
12. Say I love you. Don't assume that your children know. Younger children especially cannot always glean from everything you do that you love them. You need to tell them!


I love all of you! Thanks to anyone who read and helped me in this experience.