Cedar 11th Ward Trek: Family Home Evening

Courage Questions:

1. Watch chapter 21 from The Docudrama of the Restoration, Handcart Pioneers DVD. (Video clip

provided online for viewing.)

2. Courage is the ability to bravely face your fears and not being discouraged from doing what you

need to do.

3. Courage is a virtue that calls us to move forward with faith.

“In addition to the legacy of faith bequeathed by those who crossed the plains, they also left a great

heritage of love—love of God and love of mankind. It is an inheritance of sobriety, independence, hard

work, high moral values, and fellowship. It is a birthright of obedience to the commandments of God

and loyalty to those whom God has called to lead this people. It is a legacy of forsaking evil.”

4. How did the “Handcart Pioneers” show great courage?

List as many hardships that the “Handcart Pioneers” faced with courage.

(See activity game or watch “Handcart Pioneers” DVD for help.)

5. Do you, like the pioneers, have the courage and the consistency to be true to the faith?

“It is not enough to study or reenact the accomplishments of our pioneers. We need to identify the great,

eternal principles they applied to achieve all they achieved for our benefit and then apply those principles

to the challenges of our day. In that way we honor their pioneering efforts, and we also reaffirm our

heritage and strengthen its capacity to bless our own posterity....We are all pioneers in doing so.”

6. How can we be courageous in follow the Savior?

If we never forget the marvelous heritage we received from the pioneers who courageously suffered

unimaginable trials and sometimes death for the gospel we can find the courage to we need today to be

courageous in always choosing what is right, even when others might laugh and scorn you.

“Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have

courage as well.”

Thomas S. Monson

Saturday, February 1, 2014