FHE Idea

For Family Home Evening this week we talked about Prayer and how to improve our personal prayers with our Heavenly Father. I found two really good talks on prayer found HERE and HERE . One of the talks has ideas about what you can do to help improve your prayers and the other one is a story about a time that prayer helped someone. The boys gave good ideas about things that they could pray for and also told about some times that they prayed and it helped them to feel better. A few years ago Asher kept getting scared to go to bed. A few minutes after we would put him to bed he would start yelling for us and then tell us he was scared about fire's and people breaking into our house. This was the time that we really stressed the importance of prayer, we didn't find him any other alternative to his problem, just night after night we kept telling him "ok let's have a special prayer". Sometimes Josh would give him a Father's blessing, but we were very adamant on helping him rely on the Lord. We did not keep the door open or buy a night light or anything like that, we wanted to help him gain a relationship with his Heavenly Father. This went on for a few weeks, maybe even a month but eventually it got less and less until one day we didn't even realize it was over. I truly did not even realize the importance this brought to Asher's life until a few weeks ago when my second son Elijah started having the same thing happen to him, I over heard Asher telling Elijah about how you handle this kind of a thing. Elijah only did this for a few nights and we said special prayers for him too. I am so grateful for this knowledge and that I am able to help my children grow closer to their Heavenly Father.