Implementing “Come, Follow Me” is Going to Be Easy-Peasy

[Third Hour]

Basically since General Conference, the chant "Two hour church! Two hour church!" has been playing a continuous loop in my head, accompanied by disco lights and jazz hands. Yet I've come to realize that focusing only on the shortened block rather than on why the block is being shortened is completely missing the mark — and it all comes down to the Church's new Come, Follow Me resource. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FGu9thjY6o After the shortened block and inclusion of Come, Follow Me were announced at the beginning of conference, the Church sent out an email to members entitled "Changes Support Balance Between Home and Church." It explained, ". . . we encourage individuals and families to hold home evening and to study the gospel at home on Sunday—or at other times as individuals and families choose. A new resource, Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families, provides ideas for personal scripture study, family scripture study, and home evening." In layman's terms, (not to be confused with Laman's terms... *cackles at own dad joke*) this means that family home evening (FHE) is now...

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[Guest]

To be honest, I haven't looked at the new curriculum yet.  But my wife has.  And she says that we're already doing this in our home. So, not a lot is going to change.  The main thing is that when we sit down to Sunday dinner, we won't be asking each individual what they studied in classes that day.  We'll just be discussing the same topic with the family with the input we got from the members of each of our classes.

[anatess2]

My problem is church now starts at 8AM.  Ward council at 7AM.  That's gonna suck.