Ward History FHE

FAMILY HOME EVENING

Seven lessons built from the journals and records of the first Saints in our ward boundaries.

1 · Gather — read a question aloud
2 · Guess — let everyone answer
3 · Reveal — open the answer or follow the link
Polly Harmon portrait beside a page from a missionary journalLESSON 1 · 10 QUESTIONSHow the Lord speaks to usPolly Harmon’s dreamElder Will Hayes portrait beside a 1924 newspaper reportLESSON 2 · 10 QUESTIONSFaith through tragedyThe Harmons · 1924Russell family photographs beside Doris Russell’s handwritten memoriesLESSON 3 · 10 QUESTIONSObedience and the SpiritElder Isaac SmithJC Garland and Elder Sutton beside a page from a mission journalLESSON 4 · 10 QUESTIONSA friend to missionariesJC Garland · 1893JC Garland portrait beside the note: He told Mother to never turn the Elders awayLESSON 5 · 10 QUESTIONSA pillar in Millers CoveJC Garland · 1893–1927The Harmon home in Cades Cove beside a baptismal hymnLESSON 6 · 10 QUESTIONSBlessed are the peacemakersMillers Cove · 1898Elder Soren Petersen (bottom right) with Elder Willard Bean standing behind him and two other missionaries, beside the Book of MormonLESSON 7 · 8 QUESTIONSThe weak and the simpleElder Soren PetersenGO DEEPERThe full history lives at Smoky Mountain Saints ↗