“Filled with love towards God and all men”
April 13-19
Scripture: Mosiah 2:17
Activity: Random Acts of Service/kindness
- Bake cookies (my personal go-to)
- Pick up litter
- Make dinner for a family
- Leave notes of encouragement
- Heart attack someone (put hearts on someone’s door)
- Write to a missionary
- Donate clothes or toys to the Salvation Army or a similar institution
- Read a book to a sibling
- Pack someone else’s lunch
- Color a picture and give it to someone
- Feed the ducks or birds
- Smile at everyone you see
- Find opportunities to give complements
- Share a favorite recipe
- Make a candy gram
- Make a bookmark
- Make an origami gift
- Make a friendship bracelet
- Share a joke or a riddle
- Share a favorite scripture
- Print out uplifting quotes and decorate them
- Write happy notes and leave it where they can find them
- Cut up a pictures and make a puzzle for someone
- Give a note with things you admire, respects, and like about someone
Activity #2: Secret Family Member
Make it a game.
- Put each family member’s name in a hat or a bowl.
- Have everyone draw a name to serve (you can do it for the week or a day…whatever works best for your family…follow the spirit)
- Make sure that everyone knows that they have to do at LEAST 1 acts of service for that family member. (or 1 act per day)
- You could have a visual and have them add a rock (or a marshmellow, or a penny…use what you have!) to a mason jar.
- Celebrate your victories!
- See if you can guess who had you!
- Talk about how you felt after serving your family member.
Ideas and resources from the church:
This idea goes into why it is important to be like a child:
This idea suggests you climbing on a chair and listing things that family members have done during the week to serve them:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2020/04/family-study-fun?lang=eng
I love this idea from the Come Follow Me manual: Mosiah 2-3
It might be fun for your family to create the setting for King Benjamin’s speech. You could make a small tower and let family members take turns reading King Benjamin’s words while standing on it. The rest of the family could listen from inside a makeshift tent.
Come Follow Me in my family 