Adversity from Family Home Evening Lesson Manual
Adversity Family Home Evening (Credit Unknown - transferred from lds-yw files)

Give the poem "Footprints" with some gummy feet



Count your Blessings (Hymn Book pg. 241)
Nearer, My God, To Thee (Hymn Book, pg. 100)
Where Can I Turn for Peace (Hymn Book, pg. 129)



We all have our ups and downs
You can handle pressure brilliantly



Broken Glass - Beautiful Glass
Compare life to a kite. The following parallels may help in your discussion:

Kite - Each one of us is like a kite.
Wind - Trials, like the wind, push against us each day. The resistance they provide, like the wind, keeps us, like the kite, up and going.
String - We have the gospel which, like the string of a kite, directs, controls, and anchors our lives.
Life Stains All
Like a pencil
Rising Above
Roses - Indoor or Outdoor



It's all how you look at it (Author Unknown)
 

One Liners
Quick Quotes
Quotes on Adversity from W.O.O.L.



Limhi's people turn to Heavenly Father (Mosiah 21)
Joseph is falsely accused (Genesis 39)
Paul casts out an evil spirit and is thrown in prison (Acts 16:16-40)
Joseph Smith receives comfort in Liberty Jail (Doctrine & Covenants 121)



"Rocky Road" ice cream



A Carrot, An Egg and a Cup of Coffee

God's Embroidery

Parable of the Popper
The parable of the mule
 

Adversity & Agency by M. Russell Ballard

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Family Home Evening Video Supplement - "Facing Life's Ironies," 3:49 min (Video Clip 9)