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Come, Follow Me is a resource offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is designed to be used in the home to support personal and family scripture study to build faith in Heavenly Father and His plan of salvation and in the Savior Jesus Christ and His Atonement. Come, Follow Me is self-contained and adequate, when used properly. Products and materials designed to supplement this resource, though they may be helpful in some instances, are not necessary for a successful home study program.
Matthew 26:26–29; Mark 14:22–25
The sacrament is an opportunity to remember the Savior.
From Come, Follow Me:
Is there anything you could do to make your experience more sacred and meaningful?
“Each week as we take the sacrament we can be reminded of the purpose of His birth and the purpose of ours as we make room for Him in our lives, bring our best gifts, and prepare as seriously for the sacrament as we did for our baptism.” Make the Sacrament More Significant
When President Nelson closed the October 2019 general conference, he described some revisions to the questions asked in a temple recommend interview. Number 8 reads, “Do you strive to keep the Sabbath day holy, both at home and at church; attend your meetings; prepare for and worthily partake of the sacrament; and live your life in harmony with the laws and commandments of the gospel?”
Preparing for the sacrament each week could certainly include doing temple and family history work and activities.
Amy Harris, Professor of History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, reminds us: “Engaging in family history research teaches us of the vastness and grand scope of God’s creation and underscores the individual and merciful reach of Christ’s Atonement.” How Family History Changes Our Hearts and Minds
Video Make the Sabbath a Delight
The Sabbath day is a day of reflection, service, renewing of our covenants, and serving God and others. Prophets have always encouraged us to honor the commandment to keep the Sabbath day holy and improve our Sabbath day worship. In his April 2015 general conference address President Russell M. Nelson invited us to make the Sabbath a delight by spending time doing family history: “Searching for and finding family members who have preceded you on earth—those who did not have an opportunity to accept the gospel while here—can bring immense joy.”
Search for your ancestors using help from The Family History Guide. Check out the many activities, articles, videos, and instructions available to make your Sabbath day a delight!
The mission statement of this free resource is “To greatly increase the number of people actively involved in family history worldwide, and to make everyone's family history journey easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable.”
The Family History Guide includes activities for families, individuals, youth (and the special Youth: Latter-day Saints page), and children.
See also Family History on the Sabbath, and any of the Come, Follow Me Companion activities that work well for the Sabbath, including activity ideas from Five-Minute Family History Activity Ideas for Latter-day Saints.
The Sabbath is a great day to find and enjoy family stories. See 10 Ways to Find Ancestor's Stories, and the FamilySearch Fan Chart which features family lines, birth country, sources, photos, research helps, and ordinances. You can print a chart with any of this information. Make a fan chart "place mat" or frame and hang a chart on the wall for fun! Play Fan Chart Bingo (see Week #9, 2020), or toss a die onto the chart and share a fact or story about the ancestor it landed on. Learn more about that ancestor!
Find ancestor stories by clicking the Memories tab on the FamilySearch Person page for each ancestor. Check out the following sites for more options: Women of Faith, Military Records of Your Family's War Veterans, My Pioneer Ancestors, Missionaries, and more on the FamilySearch Discovery page.
The All The Stories site is a free, searchable site that will synchronize with FamilySearch all the stories that anyone has uploaded of your direct ancestors and their siblings - up to 9 generations back (along with how you are related to that ancestor, and how long the story takes to read).
With the FamilySearch Memories Audio app or the Record My Story feature on FamilySearch Discovery, gathering, recording, sharing, and preserving family history has never been easier. Read more here.
Upload photos and stories (documents) from your social media account or family albums to your FamilySearch Memories.
Ask questions and preserve the answers!
You can also call faraway grandparents to ask them family history questions. You can take a photo of what you write and then upload it to FamilySearch Memories. Another option is to have someone else record the conversation and then preserve it. See also 10 Questions Everyone Should Ask Their Grandparents.
See Week 21 for ways to research and locate the names of your ancestors to do proxy work for in the temple. Included also are ways to prepare to go to the temple.
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One of the ways that you can more easily do temple work and family history during the week to prepare for the sacrament is to make it part of what you are already doing. The Family History Guide has created Weekly Family History Activities - A Come, Follow Me Companion to provide temple and family history activities correlated to each Come, Follow Me lesson. Decide how to implement this idea if it is something that would bless you and your family.
The Savior is our example of humbly serving others
From Come, Follow Me:
Consider what you can do to follow the Savior’s example of humble service.
Indexing is a humble offering that can bless others - a beautiful way to serve others as individuals or as families. You can index anytime or anywhere—even in your pajamas! All you need is a computer or a tablet (see FamilySearch Indexing: Easier Than Ever!)
Indexing makes records searchable online. Each indexed record is a gift to someone, somewhere -allowing him or her to learn about and gather ancestors into the family tree. Indexing is not hard to do (you can select the level of difficulty) and it is so much fun! Anyone who has a FamilySearch account, including children over the age of eight, can participate. Young children should be supervised by an adult or older sibling who is familiar with indexing - so this can be a team effort!
The Family History Guide offers the newest information and detailed “how-to” help for indexing. See FamilySearch (FS) Project 5: 1: Learn about Indexing 2: Get Started 3: Index Batches 4: Improve Skills 5: Collaborate with Others 6: Read Difficult Handwriting 7: O-Ancestry World Archives 8: Zoning . Learn more about the how and why of indexing in this FamilySearch blog post.
Enjoy watching instructional and motivational videos by going to the LDS.ORG Media Library . View videos about youth indexing here. See this Indexing Activity. Read about more experiences here.
Set some goals to index records and let today begin a new adventure! Beware - indexing is addicting!
Try using the Get Involved app. Help people lost to history get found by their families. FamilySearch explains: “Our computers find names in old documents, but they often make mistakes. Reviewing the names and fixing the mistakes is an easy way to help others discover their ancestors.” See Get Involved Introduction | RootsTech 2022
Read more in this article: FamilySearch's Use of Artificial Intelligence and Handwriting Recognition.