Tinfoil dinners and our FHE

For our pioneer primary activity we wanted to serve lunch tin foil style. Since we can't start any fires we came up with idea of making pigs in a blanket using buicuit doe, hot dogs, tin foil and cooking it on the gril. With the help of the other primary counselor and Anthony and Madeline we figured out and experimented with the idea. I am happy to say it worked and ever since then my children ask for pigs in a blanket for lunch or for dinner. The critical step is spraying the tin foil with cooking spray for easy release after the pigs are done. So the first step is to take the biscuit dough (we used the ones that come in a can in the ref. section of the store). Flaten it out smooth and then place your hot dog in the middle. If you want cheese cut a slit down the middle but not all the way through and then add some cheese. Take the buscuit dough and wrap it around the hot dog like a taco shell. Then take the tin foil and wrap it burrito style and then place it on the gril about 6 min on each side.

For FHE this evening, it was Madeline's turn to do the lesson and boy was she so excited. We did the story of Nephi hunting for food in the wilderness. I wrote the story for Madeline and she colored the pictures that followed the story. I have included a video of Madeline giving her lesson.

After the lesson we took animals like Nephi would have hunted and with a bow and arrow we hunted like Nephi. The kids had fun hunting animals and knocking them off the coffee table. At first I was going to use clip art of different animals and attach them to a block, but forgot so I found some inexpensive plastic animals from the store. It was fun to use our imagination and pretend to be like Nephi. We were able to talk about out Nephi did not give up when he was faced with a hard task, but instead he asked Heavenly Father for help and Heavenly Father helped him. We also talked about how Heavenly Father did not just give Nephi the bow, Nephi had to work hard but Heavenly Father helped him to know how to build a bow. We related this to our own life that Heavenly Father just doesn't give us something, but instead we still need to work hard and Heavenly Father will help us.

It is neat to do stories from the scriptures and then help the children see in their own lives how they can be like the various prophets in the scriptures. I feel this helps bring the scriptures to life for the children and for them to be able to see how the scriptures can apply to their lives.

Anthony was sick during Pioneer Day so we were not able to have our Pioneer Day party so we will have this weekend. I figure the pioneers were still coming into the valley. So I will post pictures after our party.