Suggested Hymns:
Come, Let Us Anew (Hymns 217)
Scatter Sunshine (Hymns 230)
Let Us All Press On (Hymns 243)

Note:
This home evening lesson is a one-year follow-up to the previous lesson, "Resolved to Do Good."

Read:
"At the end of each year, many are inclined, as the business man, to 'take stock' and thereby judge as accurately as possible as to whether the twelve passing months have recorded 'success' or 'failure.' Gains there have been, but perhaps losses also.

"Taken all in all, we are pleased to assure Church members that the Old Year takes its place in the unretraceable past carrying with it records of gallant service rendered to humanity by individuals and organizations in the Church. We assure them also that in somebody's life every good deed will live; many thousands of tender services rendered are unrecorded either in books or even in the minds of fellow workers. Yet they will live in human hearts and in the future blossom into other good deeds.

"May each indication of progress during the year that has passed prove an encouragement and an inspiration to us to strive for greater achievements in the year that now comes laden with glorious opportunities!" (David O. McKay, Pathways to Happiness [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1957], 186)

Discuss:
One year ago, family members made a New Year's resolution to become more involved in helping to solve community or social problems. What have family members learned as a result of their involvement? How have they been blessed or challenged by the experience? Have family members' efforts made a difference in someone else's life?

How have events of the past year affected the problem or need family members were helping to address? Overall, has the situation improved? worsened? stayed the same? What do we hope to see accomplished in the new year regarding this problem or need?

If family members weren't successful at carrying out their resolution, or if the experience was negative, discuss what happened. Did family members try to "run faster than [they had] strength" (Mosiah 4:27)? Did they learn something from the negative experience? Is there some other way that family members feel they could use their gifts to serve?

Read:
D&C 64:33

Activity:
Make a New Year's resolution to continue being involved, in some specific way, in working to solve community or social problems. This might be a renewal of last year's resolution, or it might be a new resolution.