Teachers: The lessons in the manual contain more information than you will probably be able to teach in one class period. Seek the Spirit of the Lord in selecting the scripture passages, stories, activities, questions, and other lesson materials that best meet the needs of class members.

Basic Resources

• Do you want to see this week's lesson? Lesson 40

• You can read the assigned scriptures for this week online: 4 Nephi 1:2–3, 15–16; D&C 88:119.

Art

The picture in the upper-right corner of this page depicts a family that is enjoying spending time together. The picture is available online or in your meetinghouse library: Family Togetherness, Gospel Art Picture Kit, no. 616.

Recent Talks and Articles in Church Magazines

Would you like to see what Church leaders have said recently about topics in this week's lesson? Click on the photographs or talk titles below to read the complete talks.

Elder L. Tom Perry's conference message conveys a sense of the Church's concern for the welfare of the family and of what the Church is doing to help protect our homes. He says: "We need to make our homes a place of refuge from the storm, which is increasing in intensity all about us. Even if the smallest openings are left unattended, negative influences can penetrate the very walls of our homes" ("The Importance of the Family," Ensign, May 2003, 40). Download or listen to this article online in MP3 format.

In this conference address, Elder Robert D. Hales describes over 20 things that can be done within the walls of our homes to strengthen the family. Before listing these things, he makes this statement: "Strengthening families is our sacred duty as parents, children, extended family members, leaders, teachers, and individual members of the Church" ("Strengthening Families: Our Sacred Duty," Ensign, May 1999, 33).

Music

Below is a Church hymn that relate to this week's lesson. You could read words from the hymn in class or have your class sing the hymn together. Click on the hymn title below to go to the Church Music site, where you can read or listen to the hymn online. Or, search for a hymn that relates to the lesson.

• "Love at Home," Hymns, no. 294

Videos

• Strengthening Families (Videocassette 97222)

Additional Helps

• President Thomas S. Monson said: "Leaders of our young people fill a variety of roles. Some are trained executives and secretaries in the world of business, skilled physicians and nurses in the field of medicine, or competent teachers in the classrooms of learning. Others have studied sociology, psychology, languages, or history. Many are filling the vital role of homemaker. In reality, each is also engaged in the building trade. The product: building a bridge to the heart of a youth."

  Later in that same talk, President Monson also said: "How can we reach our youth? I answer, 'Build a bridge to their hearts.' " ("Building Bridges," New Era, Nov. 1985 [Young Women Special Issue], 63–64.)

• If you'd like to read about how teens in the Philippines are helping make their family home evenings successful, you might read Adam C. Olson, "Helping Home Evening Succeed," New Era, Sept. 2005, 30–32.