My Teaching Matters

Today we explore 6 steps to make Come, Follow Me study a habit.  We talk about one thing you can do to help everyone in your family be more committed, and give some ideas to make gospel study with your family less overwhelming.

Key Takeaways

Having a family council will allow you to gain insight into what your family members are thinking and will help everyone be more committed to studying together.

Choose a concrete time to have your study each day and pair it with another activity to help you remember and make sure it happens each day.

Keep everything simple! And simplify further as you go.

Plan for obstacles - talk about what kinds of obstacles might come up and plan for them beforehand.

And! If you want help making Come, Follow Me study a habit you can download our free 30-day family scripture study experience/game here: https://www.myteachingmatters.com/familyscripturestudy

This is our Introduction Episode where we talk about why we believe so strongly that our teaching matters.  We give a little insight into why we care, how we got started, and what we're hoping to do with this podcast.

Key Points:

Learning to teach our children the gospel well should be easy, but it's not as straightfoward as it seems.

Leslie has spent YEARS learning how to teach more effectively and she wants to share her experiences with others so they don't have to make all the same mistakes.

Linsey has young kids at home, and she feels Pres. Nelson's charge to "raise a sin-resistant" generation very strongly.  Even if it's not obtainable, she wants to put in her best effort and learn to teach in such a way that her kids are given the best chance at life.

Heavenly Father is on this journey with us.  He wants our children to come to know him.  As we learn to teach more effectively, he will bless our efforts.

Today we explore the idea of what we can do as parents to help our children gain their own testimonies.  We talk about what is essential for your children to develop a testimony, how you can create experiences that encourage testimony building, and how you can find testimony building opportunities in day to day life.

Key Takeaways

We can't give our children a testimony.  Only the Holy Ghost can do that, but we CAN create opportunities for the Holy Ghost to testify to our children about things.

We can create experiences during FHE or home church that allow the Holy Ghost to testify to our children.  

Capitalizing on real life experiences is a great way to help kids internalize gospel principles.

Having a monthly theme is REALLY helpful when you try to take advantage of real life experiences.