Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

PurposeTo emphasize the eternal importance of the family and to help participants know what they need to do to receive the full benefit of the Marriage and Family Relations course.Preparation1. Prayerfully study “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” found on page viii in this manual and page iv in the Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide.4.

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Ideas for ApplicationAccording to your own needs and circumstances, follow one or more of these suggestions.• If your family holds regular family prayer, family scripture study, and family home evening, prayerfully consider ways you might improve in one or more of these settings. If your family does not do these things, consider what you will do to help establish these activities in your home.• As a family, plan an activity you can do together.

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A Member’s Guide to Temple and Family History Work: Ordinances and Covenants

Share stories from family histories to help your children feel like part of an eternal family.• Express gratitude in family prayers for the temple and its ordinances. Participate in family organizations, keep a personal journal, and prepare personal and family histories.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

If the Family Home Evening Resource Book (31106) is available, study “Agency—The Key to Growth,” on pages 237–38, and “Reclaiming a Wayward Child,” on pages 252–53. Let [your children] know that there are some things that, as members of your family, you simply do not do.

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A Member’s Guide to Temple and Family History Work: Ordinances and Covenants

ScripturesYou will gain a deeper understanding of the doctrine and meaning of temple and family history service by prayerfully considering these scriptures:Doctrine and Covenants 84:4–5; 95:8, 11, 13–17; 105:33; 109; 110; 124:26–44, 55;

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

We learn in the proclamation on the family that “the family is central to the Creator’s plan” and that “husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other” and a “sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness” (“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 102). His strategy is to stir up anger between family members.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Refer them to the following statement in the seventh paragraph of the proclamation on the family: “Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children.”• In what ways do mothers nurture their children? To share more ideas about how mothers can nurture their children, have participants turn to pages 45–47 in the Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide.

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The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Purpose of This CourseThe Marriage and Family Relations course is designed to help Church members strengthen marriages and families and find joy in their family relationships. This guidebook describes the organization of the family, provides information about teaching the gospel in the home, and outlines procedures for priesthood ordinances and blessings.• Articles about marriage and the family in Church magazines.• Family Home Evening Resource Book (31106).

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

In what ways could a child with this talent contribute to family home evening? If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1999, 81; or Ensign, May 1999, 64).

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They further counseled parents and children “to give highest priority to family prayer, family home evening, gospel study and instruction, and wholesome family activities. Help them learn self-reliance and the importance of preparing for the future.Share Heritage and Family Traditions• Teach our children the history of our ancestors and of our own family history.• Build family traditions.

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Faithfulness to these covenants will bless your family now and in eternity. These children automatically become part of an eternal family.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Purpose of This CourseThe Marriage and Family Relations course is designed to help Church members strengthen marriages and families and find joy in their family relationships. This guidebook describes the organization of the family, provides information about teaching the gospel in the home, and outlines procedures for priesthood ordinances and blessings.• Articles about marriage and the family in Church magazines.• Family Home Evening Resource Book (31106).

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

How has the payment of tithing brought blessings to your family or to others you know? Why is honesty between spouses essential in family finances?

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Plan for opportunities to teach these children through your actions and words.• Review the material on teaching in the family that is found in Teaching, No Greater Call (36123), pages 127–43, and the Family Guidebook (31180), pages 4–10. President Kimball asked, “How often do you have family prayer?”Bishop Smoot answered, “We try to have family prayer twice a day, but we average about once.”President Kimball answered, “In the past, having family prayer once a day may have been all right.

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Ideas for ApplicationAccording to your own needs and circumstances, follow one or both of these suggestions.• In the proclamation on the family, we are counseled that “fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners” (see page ix in this study guide). Remember that families are the highest priority of all, especially in those formative years.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Ideas for ApplicationAccording to your own needs and circumstances, follow one or both of these suggestions.• Review “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” (page iv). The most devastating effect of the war was on the family.

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A Member’s Guide to Temple and Family History Work: Ordinances and Covenants

You may find such records as pedigree charts and family group records; birth, marriage, and death certificates; family Bibles; obituaries; family histories; diaries; and journals.When gathering information about your ancestors, coordinate your efforts with relatives. To determine what should be included on your family group records for ordinances to be performed, see pages 10–12.You can get copies of pedigree charts and family group records through a Church distribution center or family history center.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

We need to watch for and capture the special teaching moments that constantly occur within our family relationships, and we need to resolve now to hold family home evening every Monday night.There are powerful moments of communication through regular family prayer and through family scripture study. The scriptures will help define family values and goals, and talking together about them will assist family members to learn to become individually secure, spiritually strong, and self-reliant.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Part A: Strengthening MarriagesLesson 1: “The Family Is Central to the Creator’s Plan”Latter-day prophets proclaim the eternal importance of marriage and the family.Eternal marriage can bring joy and great blessings in this life and throughout

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