Come Follow Me 4/15/2024 – Devotionals & FHE for Children
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And don’t miss out on our free 240 page Book of Mormon chapter-by-chapter study guide journal for kids and adults. It’s the perfect companion to this year’s Come Follow Me’s topics.
You can get all of the devotionals here.
Last week’s devotionals
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- Family Home Evening
- Scripture of the Week
- Devotionals
- Primary Challenge
- Sunday Activity Ideas
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Family Home Evening for Come Follow Me 4/15 for Kids
Song
Can a Little Child like Me? (Children’s #9)rv fccc
Scripture
Lesson
- Talk about why Lehi’s descendants kept a record of their people.
- What kind of record do we keep of our family?
- So it is important to record history (what happened) but it is also important to record spiritual things as well.
- How can each of us keep a record of our spiritual experiences?
- Next see if you can find any from your family history.
Activity
Start/make a journal. Write down one spiritual thing you remember from last week.
Treat
Scripture of the Week for Come Follow Me 4/15 for Kids
Work on memorizing this scripture with your children during the week for Come Follow Me 4/15: Enos 1:2.
And I will tell you of the wrestle which I had before God, before I received a remission of my sins.
You can download these tracing sheets as a PDF.
Devotionals for Come Follow Me 4/15 for Kids
Remember that these are guidelines for you to use in your daily Come, Follow Me 4/15 devotionals with your children! Please don’t feel as though you have to use every single question, journal entry, or activity. Just make sure you look at the activity in advance so you can gather any materials they may require.
Here is a general outline for each devotional for Come Follow Me 4/15:
- Start by singing the song together and saying a prayer
- Read the scripture together, then your family can have a discussion using the questions/comments provided.
- Copy the journal entries into a spiral notebook. The child or the parent can write the question at the top, after which the child can write or draw an answer.
- Have fun together doing the activity as a family!
Modifications for older children for Come, Follow Me 4/15 daily devotionals:
- Explore the footnotes for each of the scriptures listed in Come, Follow Me 4/15
- Ask additional discussion questions found in the Personal Study section of Come, Follow Me – For Home and Church: Book of Mormon 2024 for Come Follow Me 4/15
- Instead of answering the journal entry with a drawing, you can create a study journal (a simple spiral notebook will work) to answer the question with a few sentences or paragraphs, depending on the child’s age.
- Here are some ideas for marking your scriptures.
Monday Devotional
Song
I Am a Child of God (Children’s #2)
Scripture
Discussion
- After Jacob (Nephi’s brother) died, the plates were passed on to his son Enos.
- What do these verses say about Enos’s father, Jacob?
- What did Enos do when he heard what his father said?
- Some people don’t have fathers that have the priesthood. What should they do?
- What should children do when they hear righteous words from adults?
- Watch “Home and Family—Through Small Things”
Journal Entry
How can I bless my family?
Activity
“Count on Dad!” solving the code
Tuesday Devotional
Song
Seek the Lord Early (Children’s #108)
Scripture
Discussion
- What did Enos pray for at first? Then what did he pray for? How did his prayers change?
- Did Heavenly Father answer his prayers?
- What should we pray for? How does Heavenly Father answer those prayers?
- Enos prayed for his brethren the Lamanites, and he was told that they wouldn’t receive the gospel for many years. Sometimes Heavenly Father answers prayers differently than how we think.
- How can we gain forgiveness of our sins?
- Watch “Enos Prays Mightily”
Journal Entry
How can I improve my prayers?
Activity
Enos’s Prayer spot the difference
Wednesday Devotional
Song
Keep the Commandments (Children’s #146)
Scripture
Discussion
- Enos gave the plates to his son, Jarom. Jarom gave them to his son, Omni.
- Then both men did not write very much on the plates, but they did write a little about what was happening with the Nephites and Lamanites.
- One thing we learn about their writings was that when the Nephites were righteous, the Lord protected them from the Lamanites, just like He promised.
- How are worldly definitions of prosperity different from the Lord’s definition? How does the Lord help His people prosper?
- How does being obedient keep us safe?
Journal Entry
How can I be more obedient this week?
Activity
“Nephi was blessed for choosing the right.” coloring page
Thursday Devotional
Song
The Books in the Book of Mormon (Children’s #119)
Scripture
Discussion
- Later this year, we’re going to learn about of a group Nephites who were taken captive by Lamanites.
- When those Nephites escaped from the Lamanites, they found the people of Zarahemla.
- The people of Zarahemla had left Jerusalem, just like Lehi and Nephi had done. Heavenly Father showed them to the Promised Land.
- These people in Zarahemla had also met a man named Coriantumr, who was the last of the group of Jaredites (we will study them later in Ether).
- Heavenly Father made it possible for all of these groups to escape the wickedness and come to the Promised Land because they were once righteous. Because these groups all met each other, we get so many more stories and teachings from their examples. The Book of Mormon would be missing so much without them.
- Heavenly Father directs all of our lives, putting us on the path that He wants us to be on so we can help each other.
Journal Entry
Who is in my path this week that I can help?
Activity
“Finding a Friend” I-Spy game
Friday Devotional
Song
The Books in the Book of Mormon (Children’s #119)
Scripture
Discussion
- At this point in the Book of Mormon, we take a small break from reading about just the Nephites. You might remember that Nephi created two sets of plates: the large plates, which was a big history, and the small plates, where Nephi wrote important doctrine.
- The Book of Mormon was Mormon writing an abridgment, or a summary of the large plates. After he wrote the summary, the Lord told him to include the small plates as well, which was a repeat of what he had already written.
- Mormon did it, but he didn’t know why. Almost 1500 years later when Joseph Smith was translating the Book of Mormon, his helper Martin Harris showed the papers to his wife and others, and someone stole them.
- Heavenly Father knew this was going to happen, so he included the small plates so we could still have the important stories and teachings of Lehi, Nephi, and their families.
- Why are you grateful that Mormon followed the Lord’s instruction to include these writings (consisting of 1 Nephi through Omni)? What reasons did Mormon give for including them?
- How can we listen to the Spirit like Mormon did?
- So up until now, we have been reading the small plates, which Nephi and the others wrote themselves. From now on, we’ll be reading Mormon’s summary of the rest of the large plates, as well as some other plates and then Moroni’s own words.
Journal Entry
What would we not know if Heavenly Father hadn’t told Mormon to include the small plates?
Activity
Make your own copies of the Book of Mormon divided up by the different types of plates.
Primary Children’s Activities for Come Follow Me 4/15
The Come, Follow Me – Home and Church: Book of Mormon 2024 manual suggests that you look at this month’s issue of the Friend magazine for more ideas.
There is also an activity page in this week’s section of the CFM manual.
Sunday Ideas for Kids for Come Follow Me 4/15
Use Sundays for a time of reflection; share what you discussed that day in each of your classes. Did you learn anything new or hear a different perspective about what you studied this week?
If you went to a class that did not use the Come, Follow Me 4/15 Manual, then share what stood out to you the most in your class.
Take a few minutes to talk about what parts of Sacrament Meeting you felt like were meant for you
If your younger children are struggling during Sacrament Meeting, try using these Ideas and Activities to Keep Toddlers and Kids Quiet During Church
Here are some activities that go along with this week’s topic in Come Follow Me 4/15
Sunday Kids Activities for Come Follow Me 4/15
- Do this week’s free activity pages from Color Me Christian (or do them in the workbook if you purchased it from Amazon).
- Do these fun activity pages (older children can do these pages instead)
- Watch the cartoon “Chapter 11: Enos” (Book of Mormon Stories, 30–31)
- Ask the children to share things they like to talk about with their parents. Explain that praying to Heavenly Father is how they can talk to Him. Invite the children to close their eyes and imagine they are talking to Heavenly Father face-to-face. What would they like to talk about with Him? Invite the children to think about talking face-to-face with Heavenly Father each time they pray.
- Read Elder Uchtdorf’s talk “In Praise of Those Who Save,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2016.
- Share one of your own experiences of a story when you followed the Holy Ghost. Invite the children to draw pictures of the story. How were the people in these stories blessed because they followed the Holy Ghost?
- Sing together a song about the Holy Ghost, such as “The Still Small Voice” (Children’s Songbook, 106–7). Sing it several times in different ways, such as fast, slow, or in a whisper. When you whisper the song, open to Words of Mormon 1:7, and point out that Mormon described the Holy Ghost as a whisper.
- Read Doctrine and Covenants 10; Saints, volume 1, chapter 5 about the lost 116 pages.
- Watch the video of President Thomas S. Monson following promptings: Preparation of Thomas S. Monson: Always Follow the Promptings of the Spirit
- Have you ever prayed for something you didn’t receive? Read about Ben’s experiences with prayer in “No Answer” (June 2005F riend). What does Ben learn that can help you in your prayers? Discuss times your prayers were answered—including times you are grateful Heavenly Father did not give you what you had hoped for.
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I want to sincerely thank you for these outlines. We’ve been doing them every day since the Covid-19 quarantine began, and it’s been so wonderful for our family. We will continue from now on…. Thank you!
Oh you’re welcome!! This quarantine is super hard in a lot of ways, but a blessing in others. I’m glad it’s been useful for your family!!
I so appreciate these outlines! We use them every day. Just one thing, though…I had never heard before that Martin Harris’s wife stole the 116 pages. I’d only ever heard that he showed them to his wife and then he lost them. Where did you read that she was the one who took them?
That was a mistype! Thanks for pointing it out 🙂