Family Home Evening

Tonight we did two things I've been meaning to but haven't. First, C often wants to bear her testimony at church on the first Sunday of the month when our main meeting (Sacrament Meeting) is devoted to members' testimonies. However, I haven't adequately taught the girls exactly what constitutes a testimony so I didn't think it was the right time for her to bear hers. Family Home Evening is a great time for that kind of lesson and I'm only embarrassed to have been so late to start explicit lessons on testimonies.

Second, I've wanted to teach the girls how to play Don't Eat Pete for months now. It combines to be both a fun activity and the refreshments for the meeting. I'm sure there are as many ways to play as there are families who play it, but here is how WE play it: draw a grid that is 3x3 then draw a star inside each one, then decorate each star to look like a little person. Then put a small candy or nut on each space and send someone out of the room. Everyone else chooses one star to be "Pete" and "it" comes back in. "It" starts picking up pieces of candy and can eat each one . . . unless she picks up "Pete." Then everyone yells, "Don't eat Pete!" and the person's turn is over. We had several times that the board was cleared except for Pete, and a number of times "it" tried to pick up Pete on the first turn.


We had fun tonight. We all like FHE a lot.