Come Follow Me 9/2/2024 – Devotionals & FHE for Kids
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Family Home Evening for Come Follow Me 9/2 or Kids
Song
To Think about Jesus (Children’s #71)
Scripture
Lesson
- Have you ever forgotten something? (Share your own experiences.)
- What do you think it means to forget God?
- Draw pictures of things that could make you forget God, and use those pictures to cover up a picture of Jesus.
- What things can we do to remember Him? (As you list each thing, take away a drawing until Christ is completely uncovered).
Activity
Play one of these memory games.
Treat
S’more pudding cups (to help you remember s’more)
Scripture of the Week for Come Follow Me 9/2 for Kids
Work on memorizing this scripture with your children during the week for Come Follow Me 9/2: Helaman 12:23
Therefore, blessed are they who will repent and hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God; for these are they that shall be saved.
You can download these tracing sheets as a PDF.
Devotionals for Come Follow Me 9/2 for Kids
Remember that these are guidelines for you to use in your daily Come, Follow Me 9/2 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 9/2:
- 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 9/2 daily devotionals:
- Explore the footnotes for each of the scriptures listed in Come, Follow Me 9/2
- 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 9/2
- 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
Latter-day Prophets (Children’s #134)
Scripture
Helaman 7 (chapter heading, then verses in lesson)
Discussion
- Read the chapter heading or summarize the story
- What do prophets do, according to Nephi? Read these verses:
- What do these verses make you feel about our prophet today?
Journal Entry
How can I follow the prophet?
Activity
Tuesday Devotional
Song
Seek the Lord Early (Children’s #108)
Scripture
Discussion
- Watch Chapter 38: The Murder of the Chief Judge
- Who were some of the prophets who testified of Christ?
- What has our living prophet taught about the Savior?
- Why do you feel prophets sometimes need to speak with boldness like Nephi did?
- The people thought Nephi must have known about the murder in advance, but the chief judge said there was no way Nephi could have known unless God told him.
- What does this tell us about prophets and their warnings and counsel?
- What if we don’t agree with something the prophet tells us, or we don’t understand why he told us?
Journal Entry
How can I know the prophet speaks for God?
Activity
Wednesday Devotional
Song
Faith (Children’s #96)
Scripture
Discussion
- Even though the people had been shown several signs by Nephi, they still had hard hearts,
- This is like Laman and Lemuel seeing angel and still doubting that they could get the plates from Laban,
- What did Nephi do to gain the Lord’s trust?
- How did he demonstrate that he sought the Lord’s will rather than his own? What does Nephi’s experience inspire you to do?
Journal Entry
How can I show the Lord He can trust me?
Activity
Faith coloring page (halfway down the post)
Thursday Devotional
Song
Search, Ponder, and Pray (Children’s #109)
Scripture
Discussion
- What did Nephi do when he felt “cast down”?
- What does it mean to ponder? What are some other words that are similar to ponder?
- How can we ponder during our scripture study?
- President Henry B. Eyring taught, “When we ponder, we invite revelation by the Spirit. Pondering, to me, is the thinking and the praying I do after reading and studying in the scriptures carefully.”
- When should we ponder? What should we ponder about?
Journal Entry
Draw a picture of yourself with a thought bubble above your head. Fill the thought bubble with things you can ponder about.
Activity
Search, ponder, and pray cutout (about halfway down)
Instructions:
Friday Devotional
Song
Lead, Kindly Light (Hymns #97) verse 2
Scripture
Discussion
- What did the Lord do to try to get the people to repent? Why did He do it?
- What does this teach us about prophets? About trials?
- How can we remember the Lord?
Journal Entry
How can I remember the Lord today?
Activity
Remember craft hand. Trace your hand, then write things you can do to remember the Lord, then tie a string on a finger.
Primary Children’s Activities for Come Follow Me 9/2
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 9/2
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 9/2 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 9/2
Sunday Kids Activities for Come Follow Me 9/2
- Do this week’s free activity pages from Color Me Christian (or do them in the workbook if you purchased it from Amazon).
- Read Henry B. Eyring “Serve with the Spirit,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2010, 60.
- Sing a song about prophets, such as “Follow the Prophet” (Children’s Songbook, 110–11). Maybe you and your children could pick a key phrase from the song and write one word from the phrase on each of several paper footprints. Then you could lay the footprints on the floor leading to a picture of the Savior, and your children could follow the footprints toward the picture. How has following the prophet led us to Jesus Christ?
- Read the section titled “Don’t Be Surprised” in Elder Neil L. Andersen’s message “The Prophet of God” (Ensign or Liahona, May 2018, 26).
- Read “Follow the Living Prophet” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson [2014], 147–55).
- Read these Friend articles about prophets
- Create a journal of rememberance. This can be a scripture study journal, a journal for taking notes at church, or a journal where you record what’s said in priesthood blessings that you receive.
- Talk about the sacrament prayer and the line “always remember Him.” Discuss how remembering Him is part of the covenants we make.
- “Sharing Time: Blessings Come When We Follow the Prophet” (June 2001 Liahona and Friend) An illustrated matching game that pairs prophets with their teachings.
- “I Will Remember Jesus Christ” (December 2009 Liahona and Friend) Create a booklet to write down things learned about Jesus Christ in the sacrament hymns.
- Coloring Page: “My family is blessed when we remember Jesus Christ.” (December 2009 Liahona and Friend)
- “Remembering Jesus Christ during the Sacrament” (June 2007 Liahona and Friend). Make the wheel depicting various scenes which can help children remember Christ as they partake of the sacrament.
- “Sharing Time: The Prophet Speaks for Heavenly Father” (February 2001 Liahona and January 2001 Friend). This mobile illustrates how that prophets teach us what Christ wants us to do.
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Wow! This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thanks for sharing! I am just curious- do you have a printable version so I can easily print out that week of devotionals to have at the ready? Thanks!
Hey, glad it’s useful for you!
We actually used to put the devotionals as a PDF for people to download, but we stopped doing it towards the end of last year for a few reasons.
First, it was actually pretty time-consuming to make a nice PDF and upload it. If we made mistakes, which happened sometimes, it was a really big pain to change them on PDF and re-upload it. Plus we’d get lots of emails from people who downloaded the mistake and hadn’t seen the update. Since Phillip has a full-time job and I homeschool the kids, we needed to scale back a bit. And we just had baby #3 in May.
Second, we found that some people were downloading the PDF and passing it off as their own or offering it for free on their own blogs (some even removing our logo and watermarks). While we do offer it for free on our own blog, that kind of plagiarism was very disheartening.
Third, one reason we are able to offer it for free is because we get a bit of income from ads when people come to the blog. It costs a lot of money to maintain a blog this large to handle this many people coming to it (more than $500 per month). When we offered it as a PDF, people would only come visit the blog one time, download it, and then not come back the entire week. We do not do this to make money – in fact, we operate the blog out at a loss anyway (meaning we pay for it out of our own pockets since the ad income doesn’t cover all of the expenses). But that kind of dip in income would be more than we could afford to keep it going.
I hope that all makes sense and doesn’t make us seem mercenary or anything. We just have learned what we can and can’t do, and in order to be able to keep going, we need to keep it this way. I hope you understand! <3