April
22 Square Dancing 7pm Stake Building
(Eastwood,
Highlands, Meadows and Shadow Mountain)
April
29 Square Dancing 7pm Combe Road Building
(Canyon
Crest, Shadow Valley, Spring Canyon and Wasatch)
Thursday, March 26, 2015
TREK - Family Home Evening Ideas
Ideas for
a Pioneer Trek Family Home Evening
Our stake
president, Mark Burton, has asked that all the families of our stake be
involved in the pioneer trek youth conference this year. One way to do that is to have family home
evenings centered on a pioneer theme. We
have listed below a few ideas for
pioneer centered family home
evenings. You may use these or some of
your own. Many of you may have pioneer
ancestors that could be the focus of a family home evening.
1. Read excerpts from the article “Heroes In The
Snow” in the November 2006 Friend.
2. Use a box to represent a handcart and
have family members fill it with objects symbolizing things of spiritual value
such as scriptures, a journal or a compass.
Describe what each of these items means to you and how it will help you
through trials during your own mortal journey.
3. Review “Going West” in the July 2009
Liahona and Friend and look up scriptures to answer the questions posed in the
article.
4. Pioneers sang and danced on their
journey to help them stay happy. Ask
family members to sing and dance to a primary song such as “Fun To Do” (p. 253
of the children’s songbook). Take turns making your own words and actions to
the music.
5. Take a hike or walk together and
discuss the handcart pioneers trek and how far they had to walk (1300 miles). Explain that the children would sometimes
have to help push and pull the handcart.
6. Cook a pioneer dish together, perhaps
from a recipe handed down in your own family if available.
7. Visit the pioneer museum in Ogden or
in Salt Lake City.
8. The theme of this years trek is “To
The Rescue.” Discuss the rescue of the hand cart pioneers in the winter of
1856, using one of the resources below or one of your own, and point out how we
can all be rescuers through temple and missionary work.
9. With the “To The Rescue” theme in
mind look up a name to be submitted to the temple and discuss the name of a
neighbor, family member or friend who does not have the gospel in their lives
and who you could approach with the gospel message, or invite to a church
activity etc.
10.
Have
a family member give a short talk and/or discuss what a pioneer is and how we
can be modern-day pioneers.
11.
Play
some pioneer games such as stick pull, ring toss, and leg wrestling. Other games can be found by simply searching
“pioneer games” on the internet.
12.
The
following websites contain many ideas for pioneer games, music, patterns for
clothing etc.
Sugardoodle.net
Pinterest.com
LDSLiving.com
LDS.org (family home evening resource
manual)
13.
Resources for pioneer stories:
Andrew D. Olsen “The Price We Paid”
Paul D. Lyman “The Willie Handcart Company”
Shelli Simmons “Across the Sea, Across the Plains”
Andrew D. Olsen and
Jolene S. Allphin “Follow Me To Zion”
Jolene S. Allphin “Tell My Stories Too”
Pres. James Faust “A Priceless Heritage” Sept. 2002 Friend
Patterns for
pioneer dolls ; https://www.google.com/search?q=pattern+for+pioneer+dolls&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1p30VJOuKZDLoAS3p4HoCw&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=626
Thursday, March 12, 2015
TREK - Equipment and Clothing Night
Each ward should determine who needs a bucket (encouraging
those who already have one to use it), and then the ward should order and pay
for the buckets. Brother Dan Buttars of the Highlands ward should be used as
the source. I hope that this clarifies and settles the bucket policy. If
you have any questions please feel free to call me.
Frank and Karen Noel
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