Family Home Evening--Stones

Our theme for family home evening this week was: stones. For the lesson we told the story of David and Goliath (Elle really likes this one). We then correlated the story to our lives today. We talked about how there are many “Goliaths” around us in the world, trying to tempt us to make wrong choices. We then used a portion from a talk given by our Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, entitled, Meeting Your Goliath. In this talk, President Monson told us that David went to the brook and selected five smooth stones in order to fight and defeat Goliath. And just like David, we have to go to the brook—the Lord—and select five smooth stones—courage, effort, humility, prayer, love of duty—to fight our “Goliaths.” If we go to the Lord and attain these stones, then we, too, can fight and defeat our personal “Goliaths.”

After the lesson we selected five smooth stones from outside, and then we put the letter of each quality on each stone. And then we used our own homemade sling to fling stones (marshmallows) at Goliath (Johnny). Very fun. And then we got to eat our ammunition after defeating the tough Goliath. It was a great night.