PREPARING THE HEARTS OF OUR FAMILY
For Thanksgiving, I like to prepare my family’s hearts for the season — using movies and media to help turn my family towards the covenant ‘fathers and mothers’ is powerful. We have been learning more about the significance of this day and that it can be more than just our traditional turkey and mashed potatoes, followed by a game of football, playing cards, or building gingerbread houses as it had been for some time in my family.
Since movies play such an important role in reaching the heart, as feelings and emotions can be reached quicker than a book or a passed-down story, I decided to create a list of movies for my family to immerse in each season. I want them to come face to face with those men, women, and children who sacrificed everything for us.
The message of Thanksgiving is that Israel not only came to colonize, but they were returning to America to reestablish the covenant again on the land. This holiday is a message of that homecoming; a family being reunited after over a thousand years of separation (Nephites and Lamanites)!
TOP TEN MOVIES TO WATCH
Monumental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwrXHUsNC6E
God’s Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf3RsI0ghi4&t=12s
The Waldensians(Lineage Journey playlist) https://www.youtube.com/playlist
The Celtic Church (Lineage Journey playlist) https://www.youtube.com/playlist
Martin Luther https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8x-mKwfc9k&t=269s
John Wycliffe: The Morningstar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1V2cFsVUOM&t=2s
John Wesley (Movie on the life of John Wesley, one of the eminent spirits who appeared to Wilford Woodruff in St. George Temple) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92RR-Rl004
The Radicals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTX5iWQOuZ4&t=424s
John Hus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssFJfvHXmaE
Cromwell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6xGlAZjVs
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Julie
Julie Smith is the Education Director for the Joseph Smith Foundation. She is the former owner of the Glenn J. Kimber Academy in Lehi, Utah. Julie served as a regional trainer—establishing 18 schools in Arizona, Idaho, and Utah. She is a certified teacher for The Thomas Jefferson Center for Constitutional Restoration (TJC) and taught the Making of America seminars written by W. Cleon Skousen and Glenn J. Kimber. Some of her children also traveled across the nation, assisting in teaching during these seminars. Julie taught history and Book of Mormon classes for 10 years. Julie is the mother of 5 children and grandmother to 7. She homeschooled for over 27 years, working through family challenges including pornography addiction, testimony faith crises, and teenage rebellion. She writes and teaches on strengthening the family, working with troubled youth, practically applying the teachings of scripture and the Prophet Joseph Smith, and celebrating higher standards. In her spare time, Julie also enjoys gardening, managing her .5-acre homestead, and hosting Sunday dinners with her family! Her home is a revolving door of guests and friends as her family hosts cultural celebrations and teaching events.
