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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.
From Come, Follow Me:
What kinds of “escape” from temptation has Heavenly Father provided for you? (see also Alma 13:27–30; 3 Nephi 18:18–19).
Read Elder David A. Bednar’s promises to the youth, and his plea to parents and leaders below:
“I invite the young people of the Church to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. I encourage you to study, to search out your ancestors, and to prepare yourselves to perform proxy baptisms in the house of the Lord for your kindred dead (see D&C 124:28–36). And I urge you to help other people identify their family histories.
As you respond in faith to this invitation, your hearts shall turn to the fathers. The promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will be implanted in your hearts. Your patriarchal blessing, with its declaration of lineage, will link you to these fathers and be more meaningful to you. Your love and gratitude for your ancestors will increase. Your testimony of and conversion to the Savior will become deep and abiding. And I promise you will be protected against the intensifying influence of the adversary. As you participate in and love this holy work, you will be safeguarded in your youth and throughout your lives.
Parents and leaders, please help your children and youth to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah.“ David A. Bednar, The Hearts of The Children Shall Turn
Read more about the promises (including “increased protection from temptations and the intensifying influence of the adversary”) here.
The Latter-day Saint Youth Page includes resources, ideas, counsel, and tools for great ways to get involved in family history and temple work.
Review President Nelson’s call to action and the promises in store for being part of the latter-day battalion to gather Israel.
Select any of the following tabs on the youth page:
As you begin or continue participating in temple and family history activities, you may want to keep a journal of how the promises are being fulfilled in your life and the lives of those you love.
Review Elder Renlund's address Family History and Temple Work: Sealing and Healing for additional promises to write about.
Indexing was a springboard for Constance to learn about the atonement, read The Book of Mormon, and be baptized into the Church. She also learned about her ancestors and has now served many of them in the temple.
Stephen Jezek was able to feel the Spirit again, overcome addictions, and get baptized because of his experience indexing.
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! 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: Ancestry World Archives 8: Zoning . Learn more about the how and why of indexing in this FamilySearch blog post.
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.”
Read more in this article: FamilySearch's Use of Artificial Intelligence and Handwriting Recognition.
Here is a fun way to teach the youth about the importance and promises of temple and family history work. This activity can be done with ward or stake youth, or adapted for a family group.
The stake pictured in the video organized a myriad of activity stations in the cultural hall, such. Ward temple and family history leaders and consultants taught the youth how to do indexing, and each time they did a page they received a card to release a friend who had been randomly placed in “spirit prison.” Cards were also given out at various stations to use for food from the kitchen. Any of these stations work well:
The youth found puzzle pieces in an “escape room” to create a picture relating to the service of a veteran from the stake, and then he came into the room to tell his story.
The youth rotated in groups during the event from the cultural hall to one of the escape rooms. Indexing was set up with temple and family history consultants from the wards there to help teach them the process.
As you can see in the following video (used with permission), the youth were all involved and having so much fun!
In God’s plan, men and women need each other.
From Come, Follow Me
Elder David A. Bednar taught, “The man and the woman are intended to learn from, strengthen, bless, and complete each other” (“We Believe in Being Chaste,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2013, 42). How should this truth influence a marriage?
Gather the family (or gather remotely) to share your love story or your testimony of eternal marriage. You may want to write it down or record it and upload it to FamilySearch Memories. Post it to a place where it can be easily re-read often. You could also share the love stories of other family members, church leaders.
Talk about the marriages of your ancestors and read any that have been uploaded to FamilySearch. Find them using the FamilySearch Fan Chart, the All The Stories site, or any of the resources in this list of 10 Ways to Find Ancestor's Stories.
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)Take turns reading a paragraph of The Family: A Proclamation to the World. Audio record and upload to FamilySearch Memories (see this link), or use the FamilySearch Memories Audio App, or the "Record My Story" feature on FamilySearch Discovery. Include younger children (even if they need help) and video record also.
Have family members sign a copy of the Proclamation to display in your home and possibly share on social media, along with your feelings about marriage and family.
Creating a book with family pictures correlated to parts of The Family: A Proclamation to the World would make a beautiful gift and heirloom to pass on.
Read more here—The Family: A Proclamation to the World