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Value Colored Family Proclamation (prints in color and ready to go in scriptures)  transferred from lds-yw files - Explain that the values and standards outlined in this proclamation will add greater happiness to our homes when followed.



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Home : A Place of Refuge (from BYU Women's Conference)
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Lesson Helps from JennySmith.net
Lesson Helps from Young Women Connection



Take a FRESH white carnation (it HAS to be fresh) and put it in water with food coloring in it. It will turn the white carnation that color of the water. I recommend doing this a few days before the lesson and leaving in that colored water and displaying it that way to the class. My carnation barely turned blue (I used blue food coloring) because it wasn't fresh enough. The lesson is that we are affected by our environment, just as the white carnation is by its environment (by turning blue).  It's important we develop a healthy home environment for our spirits and our bodies to dwell.  I bought a white carnation for each of the girls as my hand out with a quote from the lesson (about good habits) tied to it and in the shape of a blue leaf. I had the girls write on the back of the blue leaf ONE area where they would be more organized (as the manual suggests). They are to display the carnation all week as a reminder of their goal for the week. (Idea by Lorri Thomas) [Additional Tips: The darker the food coloring the better.  Put the flower in stem down and it will drink up the water. Cut the stem of the flower first so it is a fresh cut and it will drink up the color).
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Have two rooms set up. One is very messy, the other peaceful and clean.  Split the girls into two groups (one in each room). Ask them to prepare a short talk on a subject in the scriptures. Then have them switch rooms and do the same on another topic. Bring the girls together and ask which room was easier to feel the spirit in. (Credit Unknown)



"I can assure you that the greatest responsibility and the greatest joys in life are centered in the family, honorable marriage, and rearing a righteous posterity." -Ezra Taft Benson Ensign, May 1988
"In a profound sense, a family is not alone. When it is consecrated to the Lord’s work, his Spirit will always be with them." -Barbara B. Smith Ensign, November 1981
"Let love, peace and the Spirit if the Lord, kindness, charity, sacrifice for others, abound in your families. Banish harsh words,…and let the Spirit of God take possession of your hearts. Teach to your children these things, in spirit and power…Not one child in a hundred would go astray, if the home environment, example, and training, were in harmony with…the gospel of Christ." -Joseph F. Smith IE December 1904
"It is important for us to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside out home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change." -Spencer W. Kimball CR, October 1974
"A true Mormon home is one in which if Christ should chance to enter, he would be pleased to linger and to rest." -David O. McKay Gospel Ideals, The Improvement Era, Salt Lake City:Deseret Book Co., 1976
"Every home has both body and spirit. You may have a beautiful house with all the decorations that modern art can give or wealth bestow. You may have all the outward forms that will please the eye and yet not have a home. It is not home without love. It may be a hovel, a log hut, a tent, a wickiup, if you have the right spirit within, the true love of Christ, and love for one another…you have the true life of the home that Latter-Day Saints build and which they are striving to establish." -David O McKay, CR, 1907
"In this age of selfishness and greed, of birth control and barrenness, of easy divorce, broken homes, and juvenile delinquency, in this age of cheap amusements, idleness and lack of discipline, it is well to search for basic values, to call attention to the fact that the home is the nation’s most fundamental institution and that mothers are the first professors in that character-building school. ~ O. Leslie Stone, Ensign, November 1976
"Remember always that the most important of the Lord’s work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." -Harold B. Lee
"The home is an institution of learning, of loving-to develop the capacities if each of its members to live in accordance to the laws of God." -James M. Paramore, Ensign, May 1979
"There is no substitute for the home. Its foundation is as ancient as the world and its mission has been ordained of God from the earliest times." -Joseph F. Smith



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