tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76930359205560329542024-03-05T10:05:56.155-08:00Creating a Christ-Centered Mormon Home - Pages From the Family Book of Scott and Angelle AndersonIdeas and inspiration to help parents as they create a home and family centered on Jesus Christ and His GospelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693035920556032954.post-27581879198896275612016-07-31T07:50:00.049-07:002017-02-05T12:50:48.589-08:00Putting Your Heart Into Turning Hearts and Planting Promises (This post capsulizes 2016 BYU-I Education Week Presentations)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This talk by Wendy Watson Nelson is extremely motivational for me and I think it will be for you, also! Among so many other wonderful things, she discusses her conversion to the importance and fun of family history work, and outlines the need for helping our ancestors who are not too cheerful about being called "dead," discusses what Elder Holland states about asking for angels to help us, and shares the rewards for doing family history and temple work.<br />
<a href="https://womensconference.byu.edu/sites/womensconference.ce.byu.edu/files/wendy_watson_nelson.pdf">https://womensconference.byu.edu/sites/womensconference.ce.byu.edu/files/wendy_watson_nelson.pd</a><br />
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Watch her talk here: <a href="http://www.byutv.org/watch/60960c78-e80f-4459-a4d9-cf26ad573401/byu-womens-conference-wendy-watson-nelson-2015">http://www.byutv.org/watch/60960c78-e80f-4459-a4d9-cf26ad573401/byu-womens-conference-wendy-watson-nelson-2015</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To reap the promised blessings Elder Scott lists, children and youth will most likely be involved in family history and temple work if they learn to love their ancestors through knowing them. Their desire to serve those who are dead will increase as they "go and do" activities and discover that family history is a lot of fun! As they explore, participate, and share, they will most likely begin to love doing the work they </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two of our granchildren were talking to me (their grandmother) and one asked if I had any fun games on my cell phone. Seth took it, held it up, and said, "She has FamilySearch , doesn't she?" He then proceeded to open my "Family Tree" app and have some fun showing his cousin just how fun it is!</span><br />
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Get inspired! Listen to the promises to the youth for accepting the challenge to contribute to this holy and redeeming work. Click on the following links to learn more.</div>
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<a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-03-05-an-enhanced-temple-experience?lang=eng" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Enhanced Temple Experiences</a></div>
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the youth in groups and use props to act out family stories. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/family-history/youth-events/youth-organizer-admin-tool/family-history-activities/other-activites?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/topics/family-history/youth-events/youth-organizer-admin-tool/family-history-activities/other-activites?lang=eng</a></span></span></div>
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memory:</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Interview living relatives or people in the ward to help document their
treasured stories and memories. Encourage the youth to visit a living relative
and record an interview that can later be transcribed and entered in the tree. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/family-history/youth-events/youth-organizer-admin-tool/family-history-activities/other-activites?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/topics/family-history/youth-events/youth-organizer-admin-tool/family-history-activities/other-activites?lang=eng</a></span></span></div>
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Trip:</span></a> attend the temple and participate in temple ordinances
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask the local family history consultant to teach a short class about getting started in family history-in place of attending a class at RootsTech.</li>
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For this activity, do some research to find local historic sites or genealogical societies near you. Genealogical societies can be a great resource to you and are usually thrilled to have visitors or have the opportunity to teach young people about their records and services. Use some of the following links to find the appropriate place to visit. </div>
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work to find our ancestors and perform temple ordinances on their behalf. It
can be difficult finding the names of ancestors needing ordinances to be
performed. But we recommend presenting this opportunity for all the youth at
some point during a youth event.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/family-history/youth-events/youth-organizer-admin-tool/family-history-activities/find-a-name?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/topics/family-history/youth-events/youth-organizer-admin-tool/family-history-activities/find-a-name?lang=eng</a> </span></div>
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This activity allows the youth to photograph headstones in cemeteries using the BillionGraves smartphone app. These records are made available for free on FamilySearch.org and BillionGraves.com.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">he Family History Department invites all units to host a RootsTech family discovery day. This event is a great opportunity to help Church members find names to add to their family tree, take those names for temple ordinances, and learn how to teach family members to do the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A family discovery day should be an event at which all family members are welcome and are given the opportunity to do family history activities themselves, such as recording family stories, finding family names, or clearing family names for temple ordinances.</span></div>
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Family members can trade stories with each other.</div>
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check out this family blog for a list of activity ideas for kids and teens<br />
<a href="http://familylocket.com/family-history-for-children-and-teens/">http://familylocket.com/family-history-for-children-and-teens/</a><br />
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and this site:<br />
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and this one created by Jr. High teachers and their team - ideas to help youth make family history projects for the next generation<br />
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Little Family Tree engages young children with their personal heritage and family history through photos, games, and activities designed for their level. (Most of the games are fun for the kid in all of us.)</div>
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The youngest children are just beginning to learn family relationships and are often interested in who they are and how they are connected to their family and the world at large. However, family history information and stories are rarely shared in a way that young children understand or find interesting.</div>
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Today's children intuitively understand how to use touch devices such as smartphones and tablets. They use them to play, watch, and learn. The objective of Little Family Tree is to bring a child's personal family history to them through this learning medium and to share it in a way that is accessible to them.</div>
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Personal family history information is obtained by having an adult login to an online family tree such as <a href="http://www.familyearch.org/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration: none;">FamilySearch</a> or<a href="http://www.phpgedview.net/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration: none;">PhpGedView</a>. An online family tree account is required to play the game but a <a href="http://www.familyearch.org/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration: none;">FamilySearch</a> account can be obtained for free at <a href="http://www.familyearch.org/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration: none;">FamilySearch.org</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">another link for creating a fun family history game</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><a href="https://getkahoot.com/">https://getkahoot.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One idea</span> is to make a collection of the conversion stories of the first family member to join the church in each of your ancestral lines. Put these stories on familysearch.org and attach them to your tree! Instructions here:<a href="https://familysearch.org/blog/en/quick-start-video-photos-stories/"> https://familysearch.org/blog/en/quick-start-video-photos-stories/</a> Keep posting stories of ancestors to inspire and edify all who read them. These stories then will be on the app "All The Stories" and also available to be plugged into the family game apps (those that draw stories and information from you family tree).<br />
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Here is one of our ancestor's conversion stories(my great great grandfather - my father's grandfather)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By
Annie Eliza Rasmussen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Niels
Rasmussen, the son of Henrich Rasmussen and Rebecca Hansen, was born May 29,
1854, in the town of Maderup, the parish of Saerslev, Odense, Denmark, and was
the fourth of six children. His father was an expert weaver, but Niels said
"poor in this world's goods." When his son, Alma, was on a mission to
Denmark, he met neighbors of the Rasmussen family. They remembered the family
well, and said "When Niels was five years old, his father was very proud
of his singing. When visitors came to the house, his father stood him on the
table and he sang for the company."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When
seven years old, Niels went to school three days of the week, and in the summer
herded cows and sheep for farmers in the vicinity the other four days. When he
was nine years old, his father died, leaving his mother with six children to
support. She worked hard, and since she had joined the church, her greatest
desire was to join the Saints in the Rocky Mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
1866, three years after the death of her husband, his mother succeeded in
raising enough money to take them to Utah. On May 10, 1866, in company with a
number of other neighbors, who had also joined the church, they left all that
was near and dear to them--relatives, friends, associates, and their home.
Included in the relatives was his maternal grandmother who was then 81 years
old. He disliked very much leaving her behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They
arrived in Copenhagen on May 11th, and had to stay about two weeks. On May
28th, they left Copenhagen on the steamship, Aurora, for Kiel, Germany, and
arrived there the next day. They left Kiel for Hamburg, Germany, and set sail
on the sailing vessel, Cavour, May 29th, his twelfth birthday anniversary bound
for New York. They arrived in New York after a tedious voyage of nine weeks and
three days, due to bad winds. They stopped at Castle Gardens, an old theater
used for emigration purposes, a few hours and then set sail on an American
River steamer for Albany. They sailed all night and in the morning they boarded
a train for the West.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">About
this time cholera had begun to appear and several people had died of the
dreaded disease. It continued to spread at a "terrible rate of
slaughter" on the railroad. It was no respecter of persons, as "men
in their prime of life and apparently hale and hearty were stricken down, never
to rise again." When they arrived at St. Joseph, Missouri, they sailed up
the Missouri to Wyoming. Out of the company, numbering two hundred and eighty
souls, eighty of all ages had died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They
arrived in Wyoming and stayed there for two days, and then started for Utah.
His only brother, Peter, nineteen years of age, took sick with the cholera and
suffered "the most terrible pain and excruciating torture". "It
was heart rending to hear him cry in his agony", said Niels. His mother
grieved about Peter. She waited on him and did all she could to alleviate his
suffering, until she took sick with the cholera. Peter died and a few days
later his mother followed him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
oldest daughter, who was sixteen felt bad because of the death of her mother.
Her mother was permitted to come back and speak to this daughter and said,
"I can't stay long. I have to go back. It is a beautiful place on the
other side. If I had known that it was such a beautiful place I would not have
mourned for my son. Never leave the church. It is the true church. Take care of
your brother and sisters."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like
the other dead, his mother and brother were buried in a shallow grave by the
roadside, after being sewn up in sheets. They did not have the privilege of
seeing Utah, their greatest desire. The family traveled in the ill-fated
company in charge of Captain Abner Lowry, who was ably assisted by Brother
George Farnsworth of Mt. Pleasant, Utah. Niels said, "We will never forget
the untiring efforts of Brother Farnsworth in alleviating the sufferings of
those afflicted with cholera".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A
relief mule train, under Captain Arza E. Hinckley, sent out by President
Brigham Young, met them about 400 miles east of Salt Lake City. All the orphans,
of which there were many, were taken by that train. Included in the orphans
were Niels and his four sisters. They arrived in Salt Lake, October 8th, 1866,
while the main company, which lost nearly all of their cattle in the snow in
the mountains, reached the valley two weeks later, October 22, 1866.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
day after their arrival in Salt Lake City, the orphans were all provided with
homes. Niels and his oldest sister were taken care of by Brother Orson P. Miles
and family of the Eighth Ward. Niels lived there until the following March,
1867, when he was taken to the home of Henry A. Dixon of the Eleventh Ward, who
later moved to Provo. Here he stayed about one and a half years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nicoline,
14 years of age, and Mary 7 years of age, were placed in the home of C. W.
Hostmark, and Annie, 9 years of age was placed in the home of Carl Larsen,
where she remained until her accidental death May 30, 1867. She went to get a
bucket of water in City Creek and was dragged into the creek by the strong
current and drowned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Niels
returned to Salt Lake on a visit, and while there, was offered a position in
the General Tithing store by Bishop Edward Hunter and Joseph C. Kingsbury.
Later he was the bookkeeper in the Presiding Bishop's Office and was employed
there until March 31, 1909.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
1878, he filled a short-term mission in the United States, laboring principally
in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nebraska
and Iowa from May 7th to December 20, 1878.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He
was active in the church. In the First Ward he was Ward clerk for a number of
years, Superintendent of the Sunday School from December 1886 to 1901, Second
Counselor to Bishop Joseph Warburton from October 27, 1897 to June 1, 1909 when
the Ward was divided, forming Emigration Ward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He
married Laura A. H. Thorup September 11, 1879 and Christine V. Thorup November
21, 1885, devoted sisters. He was the father of thirteen children, three sons
and ten daughters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He
was a lover of music and gave his children a musical education. He played the
violin and loved to sing the songs of Zion. One of his favorite songs was
"0 Ye Mountains High."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For
a number of years Niels studied how to become a dry farmer, so when he left the
Presiding Bishop's Office in March, 1909, he began dry-farming in Welby, Utah
and made a success of it. All the farmers of longstanding said he taught them
how to become successful dry farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He
died March 6, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 59 years, 9 months,
and 8 days. He was the last survivor of his father's family and lived a busy
and useful life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Here is an inspirational story of my husband, Scott's maternal great great grandfather on his father's mother'sside (Rose Sorensen):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><u><span style="color: #434343; font-size: 10pt;">Frederick
Christian Sorensen</span></u></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first miraculous healing which
took place during the administration of the first missionaries in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region> seems to have occurred during the latter
part of September 1850 in the city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:place></st1:city>. Brother Fredrick Christian Sorensen, the
object of this incident was for many years a prominent member of the Church
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) in Ephraim, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sanpete County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Utah</st1:state></st1:place></st1:city>. He gave to Andrew Jensen, Church Historian,
the account of the following incident.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my younger days I suffered from
consumption (tuberculosis) and was given up by three doctors as being
incurable. This was before I became a
member of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
When I became a convert to Mormonism I felt that I had only a short time
to live. I could not walk without
leaning upon a walking cane or staff and suffered with unceasing pain in my
breast. Brother Erastus Snow advised me
to consult a somewhat popular physician in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Copenhagen</st1:place></st1:city> who had the reputation of being
successful in treating the disease from which I suffered. This I did and the doctor told me that I was
too old to be cured, though only thirty-one years of age. He assured me that I could possibly live
another year but he did not believe that I could live six months more. I went home with tears in my eyes for I had a
wife and children that I loved and I desired to live for them and the Gospel
which I had received in which I had already experienced much joy, and I took much interest in the Church. In the meeting the following Sunday, Brother
Snow asked me what the doctor had said and I immediately told him. He invited me to come to his office the next
day. As Brother Snow had not yet
acquired a good knowledge of the Danish language, he had to converse with me
assisted by an interpreter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I visited the office on the Monday as
requested and was invited to take a seat on the sofa. As some of the people recently baptized were
present nothing was said to me until they were gone. While I sat and waited the pain in my breast
made me nervous and I felt inclined to go home, but when the strangers had
taken their departure Brother Snow locked the door and began to speak to me
about the power of heading by the power of God.
He asked me if I believed in the Bible and I answered him that I believed
that he and the other brethren possessed the same power as the Apostles of
ancient days. The brethren then anointed
me on the breast and head an laid their hand upon me and blessed me. When they took their hands off my head, the
pain in my breast ceased and I have never suffered from that sickness since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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continue to exercise faith the sickness would never return. When on my way home to Cristenhaven where I
lived, I had gone as far as the house, when I began to doubt and said to
myself, Are you really healed? In order
to convince myself in this regard, I placed my walking cane by one of the
pillars of the building and swung my arms backward and forward , something I
had not been able to do without suffering intense pain; but on this occasion
these movements caused me no suffering, notwithstanding, I moved them backward
and forward with all of my strength.
Thus I was convinced that I was healed by the power of God. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was healed by the power of God as a recipient of the gift of the Gospel in this
dispensation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I should bear testimony of this occurrence wherever I had an opportunity to do
so, but to always give the glory to God and not to man.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #434343; font-family: "candara" , sans-serif;">One idea is to have teens <span style="font-size: large;">record</span> these stories and put them on familysearch.org. There is an audio app now available to record and place directly on familysearch.org. Instructions are on this link:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1832, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Weltha</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Bradford</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Hatch </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and her husband, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Ira</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,
lived in the tiny town of Farmersville, New York, USA, near Lake Seneca. When
missionaries Oliver </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cowdery</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and
Parley P. Pratt called at the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Hatch</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
home, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Weltha</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
purchased a Book of Mormon and read it right away. Convinced of its
truthfulness, she asked for baptism. Her husband, however, cautioned her to
wait due to mounting persecutions and an approaching baby. Shortly after the
delivery, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Weltha</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> was
baptized—but only after a hole was cut in the ice on the river in which the
ordinance was performed!1 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Ira</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> was
intrigued by the gospel message. He wanted to know more and also felt impressed
to make a contribution to the building of the Kirtland Temple. So he and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Weltha</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
traveled by buggy to Kirtland, Ohio, USA, to meet the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Upon arriving, they were told the Prophet could be found with a group of men
cutting trees in a nearby grove. After they reached the grove, one of the men
set his axe into a tree, strode over to them, and said, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Brother
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Hatch</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, I
have been expecting you for three days; the money which you have brought will
be used to help build the pulpit in the temple.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> This
man was Joseph Smith. Needless to say, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Ira</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> was
baptized, and he and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Weltha</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
returned to their home, gathered their belongings, and joined the Saints in
Kirtland.2 Footnotes: 1. See Wandering Home: Stories and Memories of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Hatch</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
Family (1988), 3. 2. See Wandering Home, 3.</span></div>
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Our daughter, Jana, loves to tell ancestor stories and have family members do a related activity. If the story tells about fortitude, for example, then after she relates the story, she challenges the group to do cartwheels as a group (each person doing a certain number) with the total number of cartwheels equaling 200 (or appropriate number).</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">We Did This For You!</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a class="article-author__name" href="https://www.lds.org/church/leader/elaine-s-dalton?lang=eng" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Elaine S. Dalton</a> Ensign November 2004</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Temple work is the work that we have been prepared to do. It is a work for every generation, including and especially the youth.</i> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">A little over a year ago, my husband and I visited Nauvoo. As we walked through the Old Pioneer Cemetery searching for the grave of an ancestor, Zina Baker Huntington, I was touched by the peaceful solitude and spirit I felt. I walked through the trees and read the names on the gravestones, many of them children and families. I wept as my heart was turned to our forefathers, many of whom had joined the Church and come to Nauvoo. In my mind I asked many questions: Why did they leave their comfortable homes and families? Why did they suffer persecution, sickness, even death? Why did they sacrifice all that they had to come to this place and build a temple? They hardly had shelter, and yet they were building a temple! Why did they do it? And when the temple was nearly completed, how could they leave it behind? As I sat silently contemplating this scene, the answer came forcefully yet softly to my mind and heart: “We did this for you.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Those words, “We did this for you,” reminded me that our ancestors, along with many other faithful Saints, sacrificed everything because of their testimonies and faith in Jesus Christ. They knew that the gospel had been restored to the earth once more and that they were led by a prophet of God. They knew that the Book of Mormon was true and understood its message and witness. They knew that through the restoration of priesthood keys, families could be sealed together for eternity through holy priesthood ordinances available only in a temple. They knew that temple work was the key to the salvation and exaltation of the human family. They knew the importance of this work, and they were willing to give all that they had in order to provide a house acceptable to the Lord wherein this holy work could be performed. They sacrificed everything so that past and future generations would have access to the eternal blessings of the temple. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Prior to coming to Nauvoo, the Saints sacrificed greatly to build the first temple of this dispensation in Kirtland, Ohio. It was there that the Lord Himself appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. Three other heavenly messengers also appeared there. One of these was Elijah the prophet, who restored, through the Prophet Joseph Smith, keys pertaining to the restoration of the priesthood and the “great work to be done in the temples of the Lord.”</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> This happened in accordance with the promise that is recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants wherein the Lord said: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">“Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet. …</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">“And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">“If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.”</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">2</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">The early Saints understood what this scripture meant, and on that beautiful morning in the old cemetery in Nauvoo, I understood also. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">How can the promises made to the fathers be planted in the hearts of the children? How can the hearts of the children be turned to their fathers? This can happen only when we understand our identity and roles in this work and remain worthy and prepared to enter the temple and act on behalf of those who have gone before. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Brigham Young said: “We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior’s work was in its sphere. … We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.”</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">3</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">In the vision of the redemption of the dead given to President Joseph F. Smith, he saw many of the noble and great prophets who had been on the earth prior to the Savior’s coming. He also saw the Prophet Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, his father, and “</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px;">other choice spirits</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> who were reserved to come forth in the fulness of times to take part in laying the foundations of the great latter-day work.”</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note4" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">4</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> Who were those other choice spirits? Our generation was somewhere there among those “noble and great” leaders, prepared in the world of spirits to be on the earth at this time! The scriptures tell us that “even before they were born, they, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px;">with many others,</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> received their first lessons in the world of spirits and were prepared to come forth in the due time of the Lord to labor in his vineyard for the salvation of the souls of men.”</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">5</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> The labor we were prepared and reserved to perform includes “the building of the temples and the performance of ordinances therein for the redemption of the dead.”</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note6" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">6</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Brigham Young foresaw the time in which we are now living. He said, “To accomplish this work there will have to be not only one temple but thousands of them, and thousands and tens of thousands of men and women will go into those temples and officiate for people who have lived as far back as the Lord shall reveal.”</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note7" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">7</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">When I was young, my grandfather Martin taught me that in the latter days, temples would literally dot the earth. At the time my grandfather expressed this thought to me, I could hardly imagine it. But I was raised with this knowledge and feeling in my heart. Recently I looked on the Church’s Web site under “temples,” and I could plainly see that the temples, designated by red dots, are starting to spread over much of the earth.</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">8</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Our beloved prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley, has said, “We are determined … to take the temples to the people and afford them every opportunity for the very precious blessings that come of temple worship.”</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note9" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">9</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> Our prophet knows that it is difficult to do temple work if we are not near a temple. This is our day, and temple work is the work that we have been prepared to do. It is a work for every generation, including and especially the youth of the Church. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">In order to perform this great work, we must be worthy. No wonder we are surrounded on every side with things designed to discourage, distract, or disqualify us. We must keep our focus, and we must remember that the temple is the reason for everything we do in the Church. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Youth programs such as Personal Progress and Duty to God encourage youth to be worthy to attend the temple. These programs are designed to help youth make and keep commitments, thus preparing them to make and keep covenants. They also encourage youth to participate in journal writing, family history, and performing baptisms for their ancestors. The</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px;">For the Strength of Youth</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> pamphlet teaches doctrine and principles that, if understood and lived, will help youth be worthy to attend the temple. These programs are powerful tools to be used by youth, parents, and leaders. They help youth prepare to be worthy to attend the temple. And our youth do not have to wait until a mission or marriage to visit the temple. They can have temple experiences beginning at age 12 by doing baptisms and confirmations, and these can continue throughout their teen and adult years. Great blessings will literally “be poured out upon the heads” of those who are endowed in the temples, and a portion of these blessings will come to our youth as they live worthily to participate in the house of the Lord.</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note10" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">10</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">The Salt Lake Temple baptistry is a thrilling place to be on Saturday mornings! I was there early one morning to be baptized for some of my ancestors. As I sat waiting on the bench in the baptismal area, I noticed that the young woman on my left was reading her patriarchal blessing. The girl on my right was reading her scriptures. I asked her if she had come here with a group. Her reply was: “No, I come with my friend every Saturday. It makes my whole week go better.” These young women, along with many other young men and women, know a grand secret—the temple blesses not only our families’ and ancestors’ lives, but also our own. We are promised that those who are endowed in the temple will go forth from that holy house “armed with thy power, and that thy name may be upon them, and thy glory be round about them, and thine angels have charge over them.”</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note11" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">11</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> These are great blessings and promises. What youth does not desire to prepare to receive these blessings in order to navigate in today’s ever-darkening world? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">When President Faust talked to the young men in the priesthood session last October, he called on them to lead out and become a part of temple and family history work. He said: “I encourage you … to begin to unlock the knowledge of who you really are by learning more about your forebears. … You can easily access a vast collection of family history records using the Internet on your home computer or at your nearest family history center. … Temple work is essential … because ‘we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect.’”</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note12" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">12</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">The youth have been prepared “for such a time as this.”</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note13" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">13</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> They are intelligent and bright. They are proficient on computers and the Internet. They are a great untapped resource for good in the world! They have been reserved for these latter days, and they have a great work to do. And not only do they have a great work to do there, but the temple will also be a refuge for them that will protect them from worldly pressures and influences. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">As I contemplate President Faust’s words, I can visualize an army of righteous youth prepared and worthy to attend the temple. I can see families sealed together for eternity. I can see youth who understand what it means to be “saviours … on mount Zion.”</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note14" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">14</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> I can see youth whose hearts are turned to their fathers.</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note15" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">15</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> And I can envision youth growing up in such a way that they will come forth from the temples filled with strength to resist worldly pressures.</span><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note16" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">16</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> I can see a generation of youth who will “stand … in holy places, and be not moved.”</span><span class="marker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: 0.3s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="note-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/we-did-this-for-you?lang=eng#note17" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">17</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Zina Baker Huntington, along with so many other faithful Saints, sacrificed </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px;">everything</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> in order that we might have the blessings of the restored gospel. It is my prayer that we might understand our role in this great work and remain worthy to enter His holy temples. I know that if we will do this, the joyful day will come when we shall meet our ancestors once again and be able to say to them, “</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 28.8px;">We</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> did this for you.” In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">D <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.48?lang=eng#47" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.html?verse=48&lang=eng#p48" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none;">&C 138:48</a>; see also <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/27.9?lang=eng#8" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/27.html?verse=9&lang=eng#p9" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none;">D&C 27:9</a>; <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.14-16?lang=eng#13" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.html?verse=14-16&lang=eng#p14" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none;">D&C 110:14–16</a>; <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/128.17?lang=eng#16" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/128.html?verse=17&lang=eng#p17" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none;">D&C 128:17</a>; <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.47?lang=eng#46" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138.html?verse=47&lang=eng#p47" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none;">D&C 138:47</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Discourses of Brigham Young,</em> sel. John A. Widtsoe (1954), 406.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Discourses of Brigham Young,</em> 394.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“Some Thoughts on Temples, Retention of Converts, and Missionary Service,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ensign,</em> Nov. 1997, 50.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">See <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.9-10?lang=eng#8" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.html?verse=9-10&lang=eng#p9" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">D&C 110:9–10</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/esth/4.14?lang=eng#13" old-href="../../../scriptures/ot/esth/4.html?verse=14&lang=eng#p14" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Esth. 4:14</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">See <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/2.1-3?lang=eng#0" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/2.html?verse=1-3&lang=eng#p1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">D&C 2:1–3</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">See <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/109.22?lang=eng#21" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/109.html?verse=22&lang=eng#p22" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">D&C 109:22</a>.</span></div>
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Elder David A. Bednar<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">October Conference 2011 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I invite the young people of the Church to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">As we study, learn, and live the gospel of Jesus Christ, sequence often is instructive. Consider, for example, the lessons we learn about spiritual priorities from the order of the major events that occurred as the fulness of the Savior’s gospel was restored in these latter days. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">In the Sacred Grove, Joseph Smith saw and talked with the Eternal Father and Jesus Christ. Among other things, Joseph learned about the true nature of the Godhead and of continuing revelation. This majestic vision ushered in “the dispensation of the fulness of times” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/eph/1.10?lang=eng#9" old-href="../../../scriptures/nt/eph/1.html?verse=10&lang=eng#p10" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Ephesians 1:10</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">) and is one of the signal events in the history of the world. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Approximately three years later, in response to earnest prayer on the evening of September 21, 1823, Joseph’s bedroom filled with light until it “was lighter than at noonday” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.30?lang=eng#29" old-href="../../../scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.html?verse=30&lang=eng#p30" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Joseph Smith—History 1:30</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). A personage appeared at his bedside, called the young boy by name, and declared “he was a messenger sent from the presence of God … and that his name was Moroni” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.33?lang=eng#32" old-href="../../../scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.html?verse=33&lang=eng#p33" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">verse 33</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). He instructed Joseph about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. And then Moroni quoted from the book of Malachi in the Old Testament, with a little variation in the language used in the King James Version: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“… And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.38,39?lang=eng#37" old-href="../../../scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.html?verse=38%2C39&lang=eng#p38" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">verses 38, 39</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Moroni’s instructions to the young prophet ultimately included two primary themes: (1) the Book of Mormon and (2) the words of Malachi foretelling the role of Elijah in the Restoration “of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/acts/3.21?lang=eng#20" old-href="../../../scriptures/nt/acts/3.html?verse=21&lang=eng#p21" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Acts 3:21</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). Thus, the introductory events of the Restoration revealed a correct understanding of the Godhead, emphasized the importance of the Book of Mormon, and anticipated the work of salvation and exaltation for both the living and the dead. This inspiring sequence is instructive about the spiritual matters of highest priority to Deity. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">My message focuses upon the ministry and Spirit of Elijah foretold by Moroni in his initial instructions to Joseph Smith. I earnestly pray for the assistance of the Holy Ghost. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; text-align: left;">The Ministry of Elijah </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Elijah was an Old Testament prophet through whom mighty miracles were performed. He sealed the heavens, and no rain fell in ancient Israel for 3½ years. He multiplied a widow’s meal and oil. He raised a young boy from the dead, and he called down fire from heaven in a challenge to the prophets of Baal. (See </span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/17?span=17-18&lang=eng" old-href="../../../scriptures/ot/1-kgs/17?span=17-18.html&lang=eng" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">1 Kings 17–18</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">.) At the conclusion of Elijah’s mortal ministry, he “went up by a whirlwind into heaven” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/2.11?lang=eng#10" old-href="../../../scriptures/ot/2-kgs/2.html?verse=11&lang=eng#p11" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">2 Kings 2:11</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">) and was translated. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“We learn from latter-day revelation that Elijah held the sealing power of the Melchizedek Priesthood and was the last prophet to do so before the time of Jesus Christ” (Bible Dictionary, “Elijah”). The Prophet Joseph Smith explained, “The spirit, power, and calling of Elijah is, that ye have power to hold the key of the … </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">fullness of the Melchizedek Priesthood … </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">; and to … obtain … all the ordinances belonging to the kingdom of God” (</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">[2007], 311; emphasis added). This sacred sealing authority is essential for priesthood ordinances to be valid and binding both on earth and in heaven. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Elijah appeared with Moses on the Mount of Transfiguration (see </span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/17.3?lang=eng#2" old-href="../../../scriptures/nt/matt/17.html?verse=3&lang=eng#p3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Matthew 17:3</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">) and conferred this authority upon Peter, James, and John. Elijah appeared again with Moses and others on April 3, 1836, in the Kirtland Temple and conferred the same keys upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Scripture records that Elijah the prophet stood before Joseph and Oliver and said: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi—testifying that he [Elijah] should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord come— </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands; and by this ye may know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.14-16?lang=eng#13" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.html?verse=14-16&lang=eng#p14" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">D&C 110:14–16</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">The restoration of the sealing authority by Elijah in 1836 was necessary to prepare the world for the Savior’s Second Coming and initiated a greatly increased and worldwide interest in family history research. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Spirit and Work of Elijah </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">The Prophet Joseph Smith declared: “The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. … For it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to seal our children and our dead for the fulness of the dispensation of times—a dispensation to meet the promises made by Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man. … Hence, God said, ‘I will send you Elijah the prophet’” (</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Teachings: Joseph Smith,</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"> 475). </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Joseph further explained: </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“But what is the object of [the coming of Elijah]? or how is it to be fulfilled? The keys are to be delivered, the spirit of Elijah is to come, the Gospel to be established, the Saints of God gathered, Zion built up, and the Saints to come up as saviors on Mount Zion [see </span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/obad/1.21?lang=eng#20" old-href="../../../scriptures/ot/obad/1.html?verse=21&lang=eng#p21" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Obadiah 1:21</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">]. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">“But how are they to become saviors on Mount Zion? By building their temples … and going forth and receiving all the ordinances … in behalf of all their progenitors who are dead … ; and herein is the chain that binds the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, which fulfills the mission of Elijah” (</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Teachings: Joseph Smith,</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"> 472–73). </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Elder Russell M. Nelson has taught that the Spirit of Elijah is “a manifestation of the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the divine nature of the family” (“A New Harvest Time,” </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Ensign,</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"> May 1998, 34). This distinctive influence of the Holy Ghost draws people to identify, document, and cherish their ancestors and family members—both past and present. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">The Spirit of Elijah affects people inside and outside of the Church. However, as members of Christ’s restored Church, we have the covenant responsibility to search out our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the gospel. “They without us should not be made perfect” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/11.40?lang=eng#39" old-href="../../../scriptures/nt/heb/11.html?verse=40&lang=eng#p40" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Hebrews 11:40</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">; see also </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Teachings: Joseph Smith,</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"> 475). And “neither can we without our dead be made perfect” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/128.15?lang=eng#14" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/128.html?verse=15&lang=eng#p15" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">D&C 128:15</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">For these reasons we do family history research, build temples, and perform vicarious ordinances. For these reasons Elijah was sent to restore the sealing authority that binds on earth and in heaven. We are the Lord’s agents in the work of salvation and exaltation that will prevent “the whole earth [from being] smitten with a curse” (</span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.15?lang=eng#14" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/110.html?verse=15&lang=eng#p15" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">D&C 110:15</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">) when He returns again. This is our duty and great blessing. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.2; text-align: left;">An Invitation to the Rising Generation </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">I now invite the attention of the young women, young men, and children of the rising generation as I emphasize the importance of the Spirit of Elijah in your lives today. My message is intended for the entire Church in general—but for you in particular. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Many of you may think family history work is to be performed primarily by older people. But I know of no age limit described in the scriptures or guidelines announced by Church leaders restricting this important service to mature adults. You are sons and daughters of God, children of the covenant, and builders of the kingdom. You need not wait until you reach an arbitrary age to fulfill your responsibility to assist in the work of salvation for the human family. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">The Lord has made available in our day remarkable resources that enable you to learn about and love this work that is sparked by the Spirit of Elijah. For example, FamilySearch is a collection of records, resources, and services easily accessible with personal computers and a variety of handheld devices, designed to help people discover and document their family history. These resources also are available in the family history centers located in many of our Church buildings throughout the world. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">It is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord—not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">I invite the young people of the Church to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. I encourage you to study, to search out your ancestors, and to prepare yourselves to perform proxy baptisms in the house of the Lord for </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">your</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"> kindred dead (see </span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/124.28-36?lang=eng#27" old-href="../../../scriptures/dc-testament/dc/124.html?verse=28-36&lang=eng#p28" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">D&C 124:28–36</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). And I urge you to help other people identify their family histories. </span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">As you respond in faith to this invitation, your hearts shall turn to the fathers. The promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will be implanted in your hearts. Your patriarchal blessing, with its declaration of lineage, will link you to these fathers and be more meaningful to you. Your love and gratitude for your ancestors will increase. Your testimony of and conversion to the Savior will become deep and abiding. And I promise you will be protected against the intensifying influence of the adversary. As you participate in and love this holy work, you will be safeguarded in your youth and throughout your lives. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Parents and leaders, please help your children and youth to learn about and experience the Spirit of Elijah. But do not overly program this endeavor or provide too much detailed information or training. Invite young people to explore, to experiment, and to learn for themselves (see </span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.20?lang=eng#19" old-href="../../../scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.html?verse=20&lang=eng#p20" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">Joseph Smith—History 1:20</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). Any young person can do what I am suggesting, using the modules available at </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: 600; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://lds.org/familyhistoryyouth?lang=eng" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;">lds.org/familyhistoryyouth</a>.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"> Aaronic Priesthood quorum and Young Women class presidencies can play an important role in helping all youth become acquainted with these basic resources. Young people increasingly need to be learners who act and thereby receive additional light and knowledge by the power of the Holy Ghost—and not merely passive students who primarily are acted upon (see </span><a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.26?lang=eng#25" old-href="../../../scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.html?verse=26&lang=eng#p26" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; font-family: "open sans", zoram, "noto sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;">2 Nephi 2:26</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">). </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Parents and leaders, you will stand all amazed at how rapidly your children and the youth of the Church become highly skilled with these tools. In fact, you will learn valuable lessons from these young people about effectively using these resources. The youth can offer much to older individuals who are uncomfortable with or intimidated by technology or are unfamiliar with FamilySearch. You also will count your many blessings as young people devote more time to family history work and temple service and less time to video games, surfing the Internet, and Facebooking. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Troy Jackson, Jaren Hope, and Andrew Allan are bearers of the Aaronic Priesthood who were called by an inspired bishop to team teach a family history class in their ward. These young men are representative of so many of you in their eagerness to learn and desire to serve. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Troy stated, “I used to come to church and just sit there, but now I realize that I need to go home and do something. We can all do family history.” </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">Jaren reported that as he learned more about family history, he realized “that these were not just names but real people. I became more and more excited about taking the names to the temple.” </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">And Andrew commented, “I have taken to family history with a love and vigor I did not know I could muster. As I prepared each week to teach, I was often nudged by the Holy Spirit to act and try some of the methods taught in the lesson. Before, family history was a scary thing. But aided by the Spirit I was able to step up to my calling and help many people in our ward.” </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">My beloved young brothers and sisters, family history is not simply an interesting program or activity sponsored by the Church; rather, it is a vital part of the work of salvation and exaltation. You have been prepared for this day and to build up the kingdom of God. You are here upon the earth now to assist in this glorious work. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , "zoram" , "noto sans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;">I testify Elijah returned to the earth and restored the sacred sealing authority. I witness that what is bound on earth can be bound in heaven. And I know the youth of the rising generation have a key role to play in this great endeavor. I so testify in the sacred name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Youth and Family History - see the family history section on the youth site at lds.org </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">and the activities page - family history activity ideas</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/youth/activities/category/temple-and-family-history?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/youth/activities/category/temple-and-family-history?lang=eng</a></span><br />
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pizza and indexing (Eagle project and beyond) - friends with older people</div>
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work for ancestors What would happen if the whole church had pizza parties to do genealogy?</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Transcript of Sister Wendy Watson Nelson's talk - found on-line here:</span><br />
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2 Nephi 11:5</span></b></div>
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This address was given Thursday, April 30, 2015 at the BYU Women’s Conference
© 2015 by Brigham Young University Women’s Conference. All rights reserved
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Good morning, sisters! And, what a glorious morning this is. I love you! And I love what it feels
like when we gather together as sisters under the direction of the Lord.
I love BYU Women’s Conference. The two years I served as conference chair embedded this
conference in my heart forever.
Now I know it’s spring, but to me it feels just like Christmas. Being here with you today is every
bit as wonderful as opening gifts on Christmas morning! When we really think about it, our
covenants are a gift—a gift from God designed to get us safely back home to Him. And what a
gift that is! My dear sisters, despite any anguishing life situation we may presently be in, it can
feel like Christmas every day if we truly receive the gift of our covenants every day.
Clearly, Nephi had deep, joy-filled feelings about the gift of our covenants. His words are the
theme for this year’s conference: “My soul delighteth in the covenants of the Lord.”1
My sisters,
I pray that the Holy Ghost will be the True Teacher as we consider the gift of our covenants with
the Lord.
We often refer to ourselves as “women of covenant” or as “covenant women.” But what does
that really mean? I’ve asked myself that question over and over again in recent months. I’ve also
asked other women what it means to them. One friend expressed it this way: “It means I’ve
promised God that I will follow His Son in what I do, think, and say. And I’ve made those
promises by entering into sacred covenants that bind me to both the Father and the Son.”
Now before we go any further, let’s put our focus on covenants within the context of the days in
which we live. People often ask my husband and me, “What’s one of your favorite places you’ve
ever visited?” We typically answer in unison, “Our backyard—a place we don’t get to visit as
often as we’d like!”
But seriously, one of my favorite places is Moscow, Russia. Why? Because of what I
experienced there within one 24-hour period of time, which commenced on Saturday, June 15,
2013. While my husband taught the priesthood leaders of the area, I had the privilege of being
with some of the sisters. I love our Russian sisters. They are spectacular!
That Saturday happened to be one of those rare spring planting days in Russia, so less than 100
of us gathered. When I went to the pulpit, I found myself saying something I’d never anticipated:
“I’d like to get to know you by lineage. Please stand as the name of the tribe of Israel, as
declared in your patriarchal blessing, is spoken.”
These women knew each other, but they didn’t know each other’s lineage. As the names of the
twelve tribes of Israel were announced, from Asher to Zebulon, and as the women stood, we
were all thrilled with what we were feeling, witnessing, and being taught. We were being taught
about the reality of the days in which we now live!
Question: How many of the twelve tribes of Israel do you think were represented in that small
gathering of less than 100 women on that Saturday in Moscow? Eleven! Eleven of the twelve
tribes! All but the tribe of Levi!
Now here’s another question: How fast does news travel where you live? Pretty fast? Well, it
certainly travels quickly in Eastern Europe. I went directly from that unforgettable gathering to
the airport to meet my husband. We then flew to Armenia, where he was to create the first stake
of Zion in that country the next day. The first people we met as we got off the plane were the
mission president and his wife. And the first thing she said to me was, “I’ve got Levi!”
Just imagine—one of their missionaries, from Gilbert, Arizona, no less, was of the tribe of Levi!
Now when I was a little girl attending Primary in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, I was taught that in
the last days before the Second Coming of the Savior, the twelve tribes would be gathered. That
was always thrilling and a little overwhelming to think about. So imagine what it was like for me
to be with children from all twelve tribes of Israel within one 24-hour period of time. It was far
beyond thrilling, and very overwhelming.
My dear sisters, these are the latter days! There has never been a time like this in the history of
this earth, ever! There has never been a more important time than right now to understand the
gift our Father has given us as He allows us to make covenants with Him.
One young mother expressed our privilege so well. She said, “To be able to make
a covenant with God personally makes me feel like I matter. I really do have a purpose in the
great plan of it all. There is no third party or agent ‘signing’ on my behalf or the Lord’s. The
promise, the covenant I make, is directly with the Lord.”
Sisters, there has never been a more important time than right now to understand the power to
which we have access because of our covenants. And when we understand the gift of our
covenants and the power of God that flows to us through them, we, like Nephi, will truly delight
in the covenants of the Lord.
For the past several months, I’ve been thinking nonstop about covenants. I’ve immersed myself
in the scriptures; studied the words of prophets, seers and revelators; listened more attentively
than ever to the words of our baptismal, temple, and sacrament covenants. I’ve asked great
women from various places around the world—from Preston, England to Tokyo, Japan—what it
means to them that they have made covenants with God.
And further, as I have immersed myself in family history research, I’ve felt the unmistakable
urgency of those now living on the other side of the veil who are desperate to make covenants
with God, now.
After all of that, I’ve come to the following conclusion: When it comes to making and keeping
covenants with God, nothing is more important, and nothing is more filled with power.
I’ll never forget a fascinating interchange I had with a young friend I’ll call Amy. Late one
Saturday night, as I was working against the clock to complete a major project, I received an
email from Amy, who was in distress. She wrote, “I was asked to speak, last minute, at my ward
Relief Society activity this Wednesday. The topic is stress. I sent out a survey last night to 75 of
the women here in BYU married student housing to find out what is stressing them out. After
receiving their responses, I realize that I NEED HELP!!!!”
As I read through the survey responses, these young wives and mothers reported they were
experiencing stress, depression, anxiety, and marital intimacy problems. They listed as the cause
of their problems school, finances, lack of sleep, housework, homework, feelings of failing at
everything, and an inability to balance all of their responsibilities.
I wondered how I should respond. What would really make a difference for these women?
And what could be offered, during a 22-minute Relief Society message, which could possibly
reduce the real-life distress of these young mothers?
As I thought about Amy’s difficult assignment, my experiences with family history and temple
work filled my mind. As counterintuitive as this may seem, I felt compelled, in a way I could not
deny, to encourage Amy to offer a 21-day experiment to her Relief Society sisters.
So I emailed back, “Invite the sisters to make a sacrifice of time to the Lord by increasing their
time in family history and in temple work for the next 21 days.”
Amy accepted this suggestion, and the results were remarkable. Here are just three examples of
what happened.
One young wife and mother wrote, “During the 21 days that I increased my temple attendance
and my family history work, I not only felt happier, I felt a sense of relief. I felt a weight had
been taken off my chest. When I made time to do these things—which is hard because we all are
busy—I found that somehow I had more time to get other things done that needed to be done.”
Another woman was able to stop taking her medication for anxiety. Her positive changes in
mood, energy, and inspiration were so dramatic that she wrote, “My husband started to pray in
gratitude for the increased Spirit in our home since I have been making sacrifices of time to the
Lord in temple and family history work.”
And yet another sister reported, “I have a two-year-old and just had a baby last week. The 21-day
experiment helped with the end of my pregnancy. The sacrifice of time to do family history was
something I could do sitting down that was productive and brought the Spirit! It gave me more
purpose and helped me not to focus on the discomforts of the end of my pregnancy.”
Sisters, my suggestion to a group of overtaxed, exhausted young mothers may seem
counterintuitive, and the results highly improbable. It may even seem cruel to ask a woman who
feels as though she’s barely surviving to make a sacrifice of time to the Lord. But these young
mothers proved that it works. It works for women who have made covenants with God. Why?
Because when covenant women keep their covenants, they have greater access to the power of
God. The power of God flows into them, and that power, His power, generates a decrease in
stress, an increase in energy, more and clearer revelation for their lives, renewed focus, courage
to make needed changes, an increase in patience, and more time for what matters. That’s what
these young mothers taught me as they kept their covenant of sacrifice.
Elder D. Todd Christofferson taught that increased spiritual power comes to us as we keep our
covenants. He was explicit in his counsel that “in times of distress, let your covenants be
paramount, and let your obedience be exact.”2
That’s exactly what those young covenant women did! They were in distress, they focused on
their covenant of sacrifice, they let that covenant be “paramount,” and they were exactly
obedient. And what happened? Their distress fell away!
Would you be willing to try an experiment? What would happen if between now and Christmas
we each selected a 21-day period of time and then did whatever it took in order to make a
sacrifice of time to the Lord by increasing the time we spend in temple work and in family
history work during those 21 days? What blessings, miracles, and other positive changes would
come to our lives?
Sisters, just as keeping our covenant of sacrifice will bring the power of God to our lives, I’ve
learned from covenant women that the power of God also flows to them when they keep their
covenant of service!
While the world would tell women that the very best way to be rejuvenated is by taking a
vacation, or going on a shopping spree, or visiting a spa, I believe that covenant women are far
more likely to be rejuvenated through serving, especially if they are able to delight in that
covenant together with other women.
I learned that principle 16 years ago, right here at BYU Women’s Conference in 1999. I was
serving as the Women’s Conference chair, and during our months of planning, several of us had
the idea that adding a service project to the conference would be powerful. The idea felt inspired.
We thought others would cheer! But we were wrong. Dead wrong.
Some on the committee felt strongly that a service project would backfire. One statement made
during an exchange filled with energy has been emblazoned upon my memory ever since:
“Women don't come to Women’s Conference to serve; they come to relax and get away from it
all!"
Gratefully, the Relief Society General Presidency saw wisdom in the idea, and ultimately the
very first service event at a BYU Women’s Conference unfolded. That pioneering effort of 1999
was thrilling! It was successful beyond anything any of us imagined, even though it now pales in
comparison to the scope of service rendered right here, every year.
Sixteen years later, I am even more convinced that weary covenant women are revitalized as the
power of God flows into their lives when they keep their covenant of service.
As we keep our covenants, to what else do we have access? Joseph Smith declared that if we
as covenant women “live up to (our) privilege,” the angels will not be able to be restrained from
being our associates. Our “privilege” includes our covenants. Our covenants are a “privilege”!
Therefore, as we live up to our covenants, the angels will not be able to be restrained from being
our associates.3
We could also say it this way: As we keep our covenants, we can ask for angels to help us.
Literally!
It was during Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s April 2010 general conference talk that I first learned
this truth. He said, “Ask for angels to help you.” He said it with such clarity, and yet in a manner
that implied this was something we all knew. But for me it was an entirely new principle. I
wanted to call out, “Wait! Wait! What? You mean I could have been asking for angels to help
me all this time?”
Without intending to sound too dramatic, I can say with all candor that Elder Holland’s six
words changed my life. “Ask for angels to help you.” That counsel changed my prayers, changed
my understanding of the very real help from heaven that is always available to us as we keep our
covenants.
I started to ask for assistance from those on the other side of the veil from that moment on. Now
I’m not talking about praying for fantasy angels with wings to magically fairy-dust our problems
away. I’m not talking about praying to angels. I’m talking about praying to your Heavenly
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, for those on the other side to be “dispatched” (Elder
Holland’s word) to assist you. Perhaps a loved one or two could be sent to help you with
whatever you need.
Can you imagine the effort it took those angels who pushed from the rear of handcarts as they
helped the pioneers over the steep, snowy, windy, freezing, jagged terrain of Rocky Ridge? If
angels can manage that, they can certainly help you and me over our present Rocky Ridges. We
know the Lord gets His work done with the help of His angels. So could you use a little more
help in your life? If so, keep your covenants with more exactness than ever before. And then ask
for angels to help you with whatever you need. Or ask for them to be dispatched to help those
you love.
Does your child need help? Is your husband in trouble? Does your aunt need comfort? Does your
best friend need direction? Ask for angels to be assigned to help them. As a covenant-keeping
woman, you can do just that!
One of my former institute students, let’s call her Barbara, followed through with that suggestion
with thrilling results. Barbara has served as proxy for many of my ancestors. During a few
particular temple sessions, Barbara had special experiences with a woman named Genevieve and
with Genevieve’s sisters. Barbara felt a deep connection with them. So she prayed and asked if
Genevieve and her sisters, who now live on the other side of the veil, could be dispatched to help
Barbara’s own sister, who lives on this side of the veil. Barbara’s sister had not been active in the
Church for years, and she was having heart-wrenching difficulties with some rigorous life
events.
Here are Barbara’s words: “I prayed that my sister could find peace in this world; that she could
find direction back to Heavenly Father; that the sisters of Genevieve could help her find her way
back, and watch over her in this process. A few weeks later my sister told me that she was taking
her three boys to church! Later she asked me how to get her patriarchal blessing. The eldest boy
turned eight this summer and was baptized. And my sister is now attending temple preparation
classes.”
How can we explain such miracles? Mormon tells us, “My beloved [sisters], have miracles
ceased? Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither have angels ceased to minister unto the children of
men. . . . And the office of their ministry is to call men [and women] to repentance, and to fulfill
and to do the work of the covenants of the Father.”4
Now let’s shift and talk about the power of perspective our covenants can provide. We know that
our covenants with God did not start here on this earth, and they will not end here! We know that
we made covenants with God premortally. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons we “shouted for
joy.”
Sisters, we are grateful for the veil of forgetfulness. It heightens the testing feature of our mortal
probation. And wow, what a test this is turning out to be for each one of us! But if the veil was
lifted and we could look back, we would see ourselves as His spirit daughters making premortal
covenants with God our Heavenly Father.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell taught that we made premortal covenants about particular assignments,
callings, and missions we would fulfill here on earth. Perhaps that’s why some callings bring
such a reassuring feeling at the very same time we feel so ill prepared!
Fulfilling the wonderful missions for which we were sent to earth is one of the sure ways we can
find peace and joy in this spook alley of mortal life. Elder John A Widtsoe taught that we
covenanted premortally to be partners with the Father and the Son in Their work to “bring to
pass the immortality and eternal life of man”5
When we made that premortal covenant, did we
ever imagine just how much time we would need to spend shepherding and rescuing others?
How many hours teaching and preaching the gospel? Did we have any clue about the number of
hours on FamilySearch and Family Tree we would need to spend? And the numerous hours in
the temple we would need to devote, all so we could fulfill this stunning premortal covenant?
Did we have any idea about how many things we would need to give up doing so we would have
time to help others return Home to receive all that the Father hath?
My dear sisters, here is what I strongly believe about the power of perspective our premortal
covenants would provide: I believe that if we could see ourselves making our premortal
covenants with Heavenly Father, all of our anguish, grief, and heartache would fall away. And
we would say, “Oh, now I remember! This heart-wrenching experience makes sense now!"
Here’s another example. Think of this truth: Commencing with Adam and Eve, all righteous men
and women who love the Lord and have accepted His gospel have made covenants with Him.
Think of any of the covenant woman down through the ages whom we love and admire—from
Sarah and Rachel to Sariah and Rebecca, from Lois to Abish, from Sister Noah to Sister Daniel,
from Sister Peter to Sister James and Sister John, from Eve to Emma and Eliza. Each of these
women made the very same covenants with God that you and I made. Therefore, our covenants
with God connect us with other women who have made covenants with God. I love to think of
that!
The very fact that temple covenants and ordinances seem so different from our Sunday worship
meetings is just another testimony of their truthfulness. They are ancient! Literally the Ancient of
Days, meaning Adam, with Eve received those covenants—our very covenants—from God!
Now just for a moment, imagine two gigantic mirrors placed parallel to each other with their
reflecting surfaces facing each other. Picture the more than 15,000 of us here today standing in
front of one of the mirrors and looking into it, with the other mirror parallel behind us. What
would we see? We would see numberless images of women, stretching into infinity. Can you see
that in your mind’s eye? Freeze-frame that image. As you look at that picture, you are seeing the
number of covenant women with whom you and I are connected each and every time we make a
covenant with God. And each and every time we keep those sacred obligations.
It has been said that the present fascination some women have with social media is related to the
need women have to be connected with other women, to support each other, to know what’s
happening in each other’s lives, to have other women know and approve of what we’re doing.
We want “witnesses” for our lives!
With the image of the two parallel mirrors in mind, let’s consider this question: Do we as
covenant women need more friends on Facebook? Or do we need to experience more of the
beautifully familiar, unmistakably divine feeling of being connected with—perhaps more
accurately said, reconnected with—millions of other women who have made covenants with
God?
On a day when we don’t think anyone cares about us and our struggles or about all we’ve been
trying to do, what would happen if we took just a moment to look with our mind’s eye into those
two parallel reflecting mirrors and see the truth? Because the truth is that each and every day you
and I let our covenants influence our thoughts and words and actions, we are inseparably
connected to millions and millions of covenant women—women from the beginning of time
down through each and every gospel dispensation. Talk about friends we hope will “like” us!
And now, to talk about another perspective, let me tell you of an unexpected journey I’ve been
on for the past two and a half years. After studying more than 100 times Elder Richard G. Scott’s
October 2012 general conference address entitled “The Joy of Redeeming the Dead,” I have
morphed from a woman who basically went into a coma whenever she heard the words “family
history” to one who now feels an irrepressible urgency to find a birth, marriage, death,
or census record to uniquely identify one more ancestor. I am now a woman desperately driven
by the desire not to waste time that I could have spent helping those who are desperate for
covenants. And now for me, super-sleuthing a mother’s maiden name trumps watching any
detective movie I used to enjoy. And no one is more surprised than I am!
How did this happen? When Elder Scott said to me, with 15 million others listening in, “This
work is a spiritual work,” I believed him. And I found myself praying, “Please lead me to those
who are ready to make covenants with Thee and receive their ordinances.” That prayer opened
the heavens for me!
When Elder Scott taught that “some sacrifice” would be involved, I believed him. But I couldn’t
think of anything I could sacrifice. I thought I was using my time really well on things that really
mattered. And then I thought about the time I spent playing Scrabble by myself on my iPad. I set
Scrabble aside for two months. Now that may not seem like much of a sacrifice, but for me it
was giving up a bit of harmless fun.
In the first two weeks, I learned three things I can never forget: First, those on the other side of
the veil are very much alive, and not all that cheerful about being called “dead”; second, they are
eager—no, actually they are desperate—to make covenants with God, and to receive their
essential ordinances by proxy, and to be freed from spirit prison!
Covenants, and only covenants with their associated ordinances, have the power to unlock the
gates behind which our ancestors live.
So as wonderful as it is to know stories about Grandma—for example, that she loved peaches
and poems—if we don’t do whatever it takes to ensure that she has the privilege to make
covenants with God and receive her essential ordinances, guess what? Grandma is still in prison.
And I’m not sure just how long she’s going to be cheerful about that!
The third thing I learned is that we are the only Church on the planet with the power and
authority from God to perform these ordinances.
Oh, and actually I learned one other thing: Family history is really fun! Even more fun than
Scrabble!
So, if you’d like a little more joy in your life, a little more meaning, more heart-to-heart
connections, more focus, energy, motivation, more of so many wonderful things,
make time to help those on the other side make covenants with God. The power of God will flow
into your life as you do.
What else can we do to keep and increase the flow of God’s power in our lives? President
Gordon B. Hinckley taught a great truth at the dedication of the Conference Center
in October 2000. In the concluding session of that general conference, President Hinckley’s
parting words included this counsel: “The great ‘Hosanna’ salutation in which we participated
this morning should remain an unforgettable experience. From time to time, we can repeat
quietly in our minds, when we are alone, those beautiful words of worship.”6
My dear sisters, if it is good for us to repeat quietly in our minds, when we are alone, the
beautiful words of worship of the “Hosanna” salutation, wouldn’t it be good for us to follow that
same pattern with other beautiful words of worship?
What about the beautiful words of our baptismal and temple covenants, and other sublime words
spoken in the temple? There is spiritual power in the words of our covenants. Do we know the
words? Do we know what we said we would do? Do we know what the Lord has promised?
Sometimes when we hear words frequently, they can become background noise rather than a
foreground focus to help us worship. But we can change that. We can make a personal plan for
learning and remembering the words of our covenants. It will take some effort, but we can do it!
How would our experience with the sacrament change if we imagined the Savior to be The One
blessing the bread and water, just as He did for His Twelve Apostles? Can you picture that?
And then, if the Savior stood before us, and while offering the emblems to us and looking
directly into your eyes and mine, said, “Are you willing to take upon you my name this week?
Are you willing to always remember me? Are you willing to keep my commandments this week?
Would we then, truly and finally, experience a cleansing of our spirits and “the wounds of [our]
spirits being healed, and [our] loads . . . lifted?”7
And what about our temple covenants? What can change for us as we learn, feel deeply, and
remember the words of our temple covenants?
Let me tell you about another young friend. Let’s call her Jean. Jean was put on bed rest during
her second pregnancy and couldn’t attend the temple for a little while. Jean wrote, “I was
sincerely struggling with feelings of being pulled so many different ways and of entering a
new season of life that just didn’t lend itself to weekly temple attendance at that point. It was in
response to these feelings and prayerful pleadings that the words entered my mind, ‘You may not
always be able to go through the temple, but you are always able to have the temple go through
you.’ That was my answer and the one I so desperately needed!”
Jean continued, “Now, I daily repeat the words we say in the temple (in my mind, of course)
every morning as I get ready for the day. I reverently and with power say those words in my
mind. I recovenant and rededicate myself each new day.”
Now clearly, Jean had been paying close attention during her previous weekly time in the
temple. For many of us, we can start now. Each time we go to the temple, we can really focus on
and learn the words of one more covenant, or perhaps those of one more associated ordinance.
And then we can do what President Hinckley advised: “From time to time, we can repeat quietly
in our minds, when we are alone, those beautiful words of worship.”8
A dear friend recently did just that on a day when she didn’t feel well and yet was less than one
hour away from a major and highly stressful assignment.
She wrote, “As I waited alone in my car before the event, and because I physically didn’t feel
well, I chose to focus on the words of the initiatory. As those words went through my mind,
I actually started to feel a little bit better. Plus, they gave me a feeling of peace and assurance
that somehow I’d get through the assignment.”
Just think of the power that is available to us in our sacred words of worship!
My husband taught this profound truth: “The highest compliment is to be called a covenant
keeper.”9
My dear sisters, as covenant keepers, our covenants change everything in our lives—for the
better. They change our identity and ultimate destination. They change the road we’re traveling
on through this life—because now, we’re on the covenant path that leads back Home. And no
GPS of the world can ever find that road!
As covenant keepers, what we want out of life, what we are willing to spend our time, energy,
and money on, what we think is entertaining, what we think is appealing—all change. As
covenant keepers, our desire to be someone the Lord can count on increases exponentially, no
matter what He asks us to do.
As covenant keepers, how we feel about the Savior changes forever. He is real to us in a way
He’s never been before. How we feel about His Atonement changes. We relish repentance. And
we seek gifts of the Spirit, one by one, to turn our weak things into strengths.
As covenant keepers our prayers change—because we are now bound to Heavenly Father, and
we’re tied closer than ever to our Savior Jesus Christ. Personal revelation becomes something we
prepare for and expect.
As covenant keepers our past, present, and future can all change. Everything can change for the
better as we keep our covenants, including our very nature!
So, in the words of Elder Holland, “if you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven’t
made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them, repent and repair them.”10
My dear covenant sisters, these latter days are our days. Are we ready? We can be, as we make
and keep our covenants with God.
We can be morally strong covenant women who are sin-resistant Saints—women who, because
of time spent in the temple, know how to deal with the adversary and how to pray with power.
We can be diligent covenant women who are true disciples of Jesus Christ in this digital age and
who know how to use technology righteously!
We can be articulate covenant women who are consistently seeking to understand the doctrine of
Jesus Christ so that we are not swayed by every “wind of doctrine”11 that blows through a blog!
We can be enlightened covenant women who seek to understand more about our covenants—
women who understand that when we let the Lord know we are serious about learning more, He
will teach us!
We can be wise covenant women who eagerly remove from our lives anything that is preventing
us from receiving even more of God’s power.
It is my testimony, my dear sisters, that there is nothing more important than making covenants
with God and then keeping them with increasing precision, because making covenants with God
calls forth the divine within us. And keeping our covenants with God allows Him to pour His
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. “The Power of Covenants,” Ensign, May 2009. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: medium;"><strong>One idea is to give each member of your family stewardship over an area of the spiritual part of your family and home. Each child becomes chair for that committee, and the goal is to meet in family council (click <a href="http://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/search/label/council">here</a> for family council ideas) and allow time for each committee chairperson to report on what he/she is planning for his/her committee to do, co-ordinate with the other chairpersons and combine efforts as needed or desired, and request help and/or resources to carry out the plans. What a great way to promote teamwork, make family council similar to ward council, and learn to help and serve each other!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: medium;"><strong>One idea is to post the committees with goals listed. You could invite the children decorate their "committee cards" and post them where they can be seen, referenced, and reviewed. These can be used for family council.</strong></span><br />
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<b style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Family home evening is a social and teaching time. In a family council we talk about the needs of the family and the needs of individual members of the family. It is a time to solve problems, make family decisions, plan day-to-day and long-range family activities and goals. It is a time to share one another’s burdens and joys and counsel together, to keep each family member on the right track spiritually. It is the time when we discuss family matters, much as a bishop or branch president does with his ward or branch leaders. It is when parents use the tremendous powers of the council system. A family council could certainly be part of family home evening, but it could also take place at any time.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'courier new'; font-size: medium;">•Food storage</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">…as equal partners.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Family: A Proclamation to the World</span> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">First Presidency and the </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Council of the Twelve Apostles</span> </i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span style="color: #cc9900; font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">September 23, 1995</span></span><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc9900; font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://lds.org/study/family-proclamation?lang=eng">http://lds.org/study/family-proclamation?lang=eng</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>What do Mormons believe? </b>See</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc9900;"> </span><a href="http://lds.org/?lang=eng" style="color: #cc9900;">http://lds.org/?lang=eng</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">Regular schedule </span>[one idea is to use an interview form - see below]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One or both parents</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray beforehand as parents</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen more than you speak</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clear and loving correction as needed</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don’t compromise gospel standards</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep confidences</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Praise each child generously and cheerfully</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>One idea is to have some "forms" copied so that they can be filled out during interviews. These help guide the discussion and become "journal" pages. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><b>List concerns to be discussed now and/or during </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><b><i>About parent-child interviews...</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"ice-cream interviews"</span> and they liked them</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> a lot! After a while, they discovered that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18px;"> themselves was not </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18px;">all so bad! In fact, the </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">More often than not, we ended up having them on fast Sundays. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">our "forms" are priceless. They are a journal, and have helped us</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>PS... Don't skip the gratitude and compliments...Mark Twain said he could </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>live four months on a good compliment!</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">needs of the family and the needs of individual members of the family. It is a time to solve</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 13px;">“Family Councils: A Conversation with Elder and Sister Ballard,” <i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px;">Ensign</i>, Jun 2003, 14</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; line-height: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wendell P. Droubay, “Heart to Heart,” </span></b></span><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ensign</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, Jun 1997, 57</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>M. Russell Ballard and Barbara Ballard, “Family Councils: A Conversation with Elder and Sister Ballard,” </b></span><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ensign</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>, Jun 2003, 14</b></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;"><b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px;"><b>Ensign</b></i><b>, Nov 1993, 76</b> </b></span></span></span></span><b>“M. Russell Ballard, Strength in Counsel,”</b></span><a href="http://url/%22" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 20.533332824707px; text-decoration: none;"><br /></a><a href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=ac5b425e0848b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>read</b></span></a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><b>Marvin K. Gardner, “Family Councils: Making Decisions Together,” </b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px;"><b>Ensign</b></i><b>, Dec 1978, 18</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 20.533332824707px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><b>Rex W. Allred, “‘Support Your Local Family Council’,” </b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px;"><b>Ensign</b></i><b>, Feb 1982, 50</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"When we have a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">family</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">home evening, a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">family</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">council</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">, or a meaningful gospel conversation with our children, we have the opportunity to look into their eyes and tell them that we love them and that Heavenly Father loves them. In these sacred settings, we can also help them understand, deep in their hearts, who they are and how fortunate they are to have come to this earth and to our home and to participate in the covenants we have taken in the temple to be a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">family</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">forever."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=16dfde009da38210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=f318118dd536c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD" style="color: #2a5db0; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"Our Duty to God: The Mission of Parents and Leaders to the Rising Generation," Ensign, May 2010, 97</a><br />
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“We should regularly review our family income, savings, and spending plan in <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">family</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">council</span> meetings. This will teach our children to recognize the difference between wants and needs and to plan ahead for meaningful use of family resources. . . . Whenever we want to experience or possess something that will impact us and our resources, we may want to ask ourselves, ‘Is the benefit temporary, or will it have eternal value and significance?’ Truthfully answering these questions may help us avoid excessive debt and other addictive behavior.”<br />
Robert D. Hales, <a href="http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=9469230bac7f0210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD" style="color: #2a5db0; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Becoming Provident Providers Temporally and Spiritually,” Ensign, May 2009, 9–10</a></div>
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something <b><i>for</i> </b>the dead. It
has an equal power to do something <b><i>to</i>
</b>the living. Family history work of Church members has a refining,
spiritualizing, tempering influence on those who are engaged in it. They
understand that they are tying their family together, their living family here
with those who have gone before.</span><span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span> </span><span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB'; font-size: 9pt;">Pres. Boyd K. Packer, Ensign Aug 2003<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of a family story, poetry or music • Family tradition book along with comments
from the family on each tradition • Frame a family picture collage • End-of-the-year
“state of the family,” and awards banquet celebrating the events of the past
year • Dinner at grandparent’s (ask questions and record answers—give candy for
each question asked and answered) and make a trivia game • Photo wall
(ancestors, kids growing up, marriages), remember…your house can “talk” • Time
capsule • Yearbooks • Websites blogs • Write/email grandparents (I used to get
$2.00 per letter from my Gram) • Newsletters and updates – youth as editors • Collect and scan family
correspondence and pix • Seven generations of brides in one picture frame (Pres.
Hinckley) • Use FHE to catch up scrap books, write family histories, blog
etc.(hire a child to help?) • Discover
(or create) your family crest, flag, and/or coat of arms and display • View historical
movies set in time period of ancestors and see how your history fits in • “Guess who” or matching contest with family
history photos – then tell stories • Memory book for parents and grandparents
with pix and memories written by children and grandchildren • DVDs from family
video cassettes with narration (copy for each home) • Label family history pix
and as you scrapbook them, tape record or video the descriptions and stories • Field trips to family history places and
video your adventures • Book of family quotes and sayings • Gigantic family “time
line” at your reunion – paste photo-copies of pictures on it, and write next to
them • Focus on an ancestor each month • Pass on a skill • Create a family song book • Every family
share a story at the family reunion (put them on-line also) • Make a book or
on-line file with stories of the first person in each family line to join the
church • “Pioneer Park” with activity stations of reenactments of family
history events and stories • Missionary map and book of experiences • “Clothes-line” time line • Swing
dance with instructions from the “old folks” •Create a family history wedding
photo display (for a wedding reception, reunion, etc.) • Video tour of your
parents, grand-parent’s and/or your own home •
Plant a tree in memory of an ancestor • Create a “quiet” book for church
with activity pages of ancestor stories and things they did • Family history crossword
puzzles • Celebrate ancestor’s birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays • Family
history stories for children’s school assignments • Quilt for grandparents—block for each
member of family with picture and name • Gram’s “funeral” while still alive –
celebrate her life • Write in each other’s journals • Visit museums and
cemeteries • Book lists of family favorites – read them • A jar of memories—talk about each • G and G’s
Christmas gifts (one for each grand-child) of family stories (simplified and
illustrated by a grand-child)• Grandparent heirloom sharing night • Show and
Tell activity – each person shares one item • Make a family tree • Letters to
each child • Tapes/CDs/DVDs of testimonies • Grave rubbings • Book of spiritual
experiences (gift to parents for Christmas) • Ancestor story quilts/wall
hangings • “Men of God” poster • Pedigree charts and pictures framed and on
walls • Book of homes the family has lived in • Family cook book • Refinish furniture and
heirlooms • Family pen pals •Yearly family and individual fact and goal
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“for such a time as this…” They are intelligent and bright. They are proficient
on computers and the Internet. They are a great untapped resource for good in
the world! They have been reserved for these latter days, and they have a great
work to do…This is our day and temple work is what we have been prepared to do.
It is a work for every generation, including and especially the youth of the
Church…We must keep our focus, and remember that the temple is the reason for
everything we do in the church… I know that as we do this, the joyful day will
come when we shall meet our ancestors once again and be able to say to them,
“We did this for you.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 9pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elaine
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Activities are a way to create fun for families and to help get gospel principles inside our family members - to internalize them. For ideas using activities to "finalize" a month of gospel study, go <a href="http://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/search/label/creating%20a%20Christ-centered%20home">here</a>. For information and ideas for "wholesome family recreation, go <a href="http://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/search/label/wholesome%20family%20recreation">here</a>.</span><br />
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Note: This activity is a fitting and fun culmination of a month's focus on <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #38761d; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">the plan of salvation </span></i>(The Lord's plan of happiness). It is also a great activity anytime. For more information on topical gospel study for families, and pictures of the "Nephi Experience," click <a href="http://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/search/label/creating%20a%20Christ-centered%20home">here</a>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This activity works well with two or more families doing it together, but can be done with a single family or group also.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The following pictures are of five families doing it together. Thanks you to the Buckley family for planning it for us the first time we did it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One family can take charge of the arrangements and instructions. Plan the date of the activity and make reservations at a "pizza Place" (restaurant) or a place where there can be food, and where there are (or can be) fun things to do. A church will work for large or small groups. If you hold this activity in a church, "carnival-type games can be set up. Some places will be willing to help you celebrate the "birthday" of your entire group if you explain the idea and how you are acting our the "Plan of Salvation." Make arrangements with a local funeral home director to bring a group to his place of business to be instructed. This part of the activity will also work at a church if you ask someone to "play" that part. Collect house keys to be given out to each group. Arrange for a temple or church meeting house for the first stop in the activity. Draw or map quest maps as needed. Instruct everyone to wear seat belts and for the drivers to obey traffic laws. Decide how many groups you will need and ask someone to be the leader of each group (each car). Give each leader the following instructions:</span></div>
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Divide into groups and travel in cars to the first destination which is a temple, your church building (if the temple is too far away, or if you are doing this activity on a Monday and the temple grounds are closed, etc.), or a room in the church if you are doing the entire activity in the church. The group leader will explain what the pre-mortal existence was like (see Abraham 3:22-28 and Moses 4: 1-6)</div>
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The temple represents life as we knew it with our Heavenly Father before we came to earth. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="dominant" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">IN THE PREMORTAL REALM,</span> spirit sons and daughters knew and worshipped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life. The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">for full text click <a href="http://lds.org/family/proclamation?lang=eng">here</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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Explain that we felt happy and secure there in the care of our Heavenly Father, and that one reason we shouted for joy when we heard Heavenly Father's plan was the fact that we knew our Savior would help us through mortality. Witness to the truth of what Elder Holland stated:</div>
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If the activity is being done in a church, a picture of a temple could be shown. While at this destination, have a few people assigned to hand out the keys you have collected. Give each group member three or four keys. Explain that they are important, but don't explain why. </div>
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Travel to the next destination which is the local "Pizza Place" or another room in the church if your are doing the activity there. On the way there, explain that the purpose of mortality is to </div>
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Every so often, have certain pre-assigned leaders ask the children to trade the gold house keys they were given for tokens. Make the odds good - one key for three tokens. They will usually be trading them off like crazy! The games are so fun to play! Adapt if doing this activity in a church (perhaps using tickets). In the following picture, this little boy asks for the key back because he is "onto the fact" that the keys might be valuable.<br />
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When most of the pizza is gone, and the group members have had a ton of fun, most of the keys should be collected by the leaders. Do not force anyone to give keys in exchange for tokens.<br />
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Suddenly it is time to "die." The "Grim Reaper" comes (figuratively - we don't want any kids getting scared!). Have everyone walk out the doors without any of the decorations, party hats, balloons, pizza, treats, or tokens, etc. When we die, we do not take any things like that with us, right? </div>
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Travel in the cars to the funeral home. Before entering the funeral home, explain death and its part in the plan. Discuss Romans 5:12.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life does not begin with birth, nor does it end with <span class="highlight" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fefbbf; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">death</span>. Prior to our birth, we dwelled as spirit children with our Father in Heaven. There we eagerly anticipated the possibility of coming to earth and obtaining a physical body. Knowingly we wanted the risks of mortality, which would allow the exercise of agency and accountability. “This life [was to become] a probationary state; a time to prepare to meet God.” (<a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/12.24?lang=eng#23" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alma 12:24</a>.) But we regarded the returning home as the best part of that long-awaited trip, just as we do now. Before embarking on any journey, we like to have some assurance of a round-trip ticket. Returning from earth to life in our heavenly home requires passage through—and not around—the doors of <span class="highlight" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fefbbf; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">death</span>. We were born to die, and we die to live. (See <a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/6.9?lang=eng#8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Cor. 6:9</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.) As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Elder Russell M. Nelson <i>Ensign</i> May 1992 "Doors of Death"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"> </span></div>
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If the funeral director wants to be involved, he can explain about what it is like when the spirit is no longer in the body. Don't get too graphic! One leader can now speak to all of the group members. If you want to, take a few minutes to "process" what earth life was like and let the kids ask any questions. What did the treats, games, and prizes represent? (worldly pleasure) What did the keys represent? (ordinances and covenants)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #38761d;">STEP 4: THE SPIRIT WORLD</span> </span></div>
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Discuss the Spirit World. Helpful scriptures include:</div>
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Pearl of Great Price Chapters 10-16, 18, 20-22</div>
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Alma 40:12,13<br />
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Here in the "spirit world" the leaders can reward those who have kept their keys. Have some extra nice treats or other rewards for those who have keys, and invite them up to the front to receive them. Those who don't have keys will likely complain at the unfairness of this situation saying that they did not know the value of the keys - they weren't told. This is a prime opportunity to explain that there are those who did not know of gospel truths, or have the opportunity to hear and understand gospel truths during earth life in a way they could accept and live them. <i>In the spirit world these people will have an opportunity to hear, understand, and accept the gospel.</i><br />
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Doctrine and Covenants 138</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A vision given to President Joseph F. Smith in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 3 October 1918. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">32 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Thus was the gospel preached to those who had </span><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote86" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=32a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">died</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> in their sins, without a </span><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote87" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=32b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">knowledge</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> of the truth, or in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px;"> </span></span><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote88" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=32c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">transgression</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">, having </span><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote89" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=32d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rejected</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> the prophets.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">33 </span>These were taught <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote90" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=33a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">faith</a> in God, repentance from sin, <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote91" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=33b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">vicarious</a> baptism for the <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote92" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=33c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">remission</a> of sins, the <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote93" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=33d&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">gift</a> of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">34 </span>And all other principles of the gospel that were necessary for them to know in order to qualify themselves that they might be <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote94" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=34a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">judged</a> according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">35 </span>And so it was made known among the dead, both small and great, the unrighteous as well as the faithful, that redemption had been wrought through the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 9px;"> </span><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote95" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=35a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sacrifice</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> of the Son of God upon the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 11px;"> </span></span><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng#" id="footnote96" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=dc-testament&bookUri=dc&chapterUri=138&noteID=35b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Invite (or this may happen naturally) the group members who kept keys to bring those without keys to the front to receive their rewards (symbolizing being taught the gospel, along with their repentance and acceptance of the gospel - made possible through the atonement of Jesus Christ our Savior).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7693035920556032954" name="9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #486fae; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 </span>For it is expedient that an <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/34?lang=eng#" id="footnote12" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=34&noteID=9a&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">atonement</a> should be made; for according to the great <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">b</sup><a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/34?lang=eng#" id="footnote13" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=34&noteID=9b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">plan</a> of the Eternal God there must be an atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish; yea, all are hardened; yea, all are <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/34?lang=eng#" id="footnote14" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=34&noteID=9c&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fallen</a> and are lost, and must perish except it be through the atonement which it is expedient should be made.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7693035920556032954" name="10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;">mercy</a> can satisfy the demands of <a class="footnote" href="http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/34?lang=eng#" id="footnote34" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=34&noteID=16b&lang=eng" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">justice</a>, and encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands of <sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; 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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn’t easy. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">You may ask, why do we stay up here if its so dangerous? We stay because Anatevka is our home. And how </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in a word – tradition! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Because of our traditions, we’ve kept our balance for many, many years. Here in Anatevka we have </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">traditions for everything – how to eat, how to wear clothes. For instance, we always have to keep our heads </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">covered and always wear a little prayer shawl. This shows our constant devotion to God. You may ask, how </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">did this tradition start? I’ll tell you – I don’t know! But, it’s a tradition. Because of our traditions, everyone </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">knows who he is and what God expects him to do.”</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(great musicals for the American Theater, ed/ Stanly</span></i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> R</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ichards, vol. 1 Radnor Penn: Chilton Bk Co 1973 p. 393) </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">And speaking of recognizing traditions, we don’t want to be like the woman who </span><br />
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One idea is to have a few discussions as a couple to decide which traditions to carry on from your families of origion, and what new traditions you want to begin in your family. <br />
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A great source for studying family traditions is a book entitled<br />
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on the Family" edited by David C. Dollahite (School of Family Life BYU 2000)<br />
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Our children surprised us one Christmas with a "Family Tradition Book" of our traditions along with comments from all of them. At the time this gift was given, we had several of our seven children married an a bunch of grand-children. Our kids got this ideas from our friends, the Petersons, who made a tradition book for their parents. WE LOVE IT !!!!!! Here are some catagories:<br />
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I (Angelle) grew up with "brown bag" birthdays where<br />
all the gifts were in brown paper bags and the<br />
person giving the gift hit us on the head with<br />
the bag before we could open it. <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Heavy heavy hang over thy poor head -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> what do you with this person with a bump on the head!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We co</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ntinue that tradition (which probably got started because </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> my parents were short on funds as they raised their children in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the early years, and couldn't </span>afford nice wrapping paper. ha! ha!<br />
Another tradition we have is to say some wonderful things<br />
about the birthday person (and tell hem that we love them)<br />
while he or she opens the gift from each of us. One of our sons<br />
used to say "I love this person because I am genetically<br />
obligated to!" haha...<br />
We tried to teach the kids that we love no matter what, and<br />
we appreciate and love some things they do and are also.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693035920556032954.post-15343428677835366062011-07-08T21:32:00.000-07:002012-08-28T23:27:28.571-07:00QUOTES FROM THE FAMILY EXPO ADDRESS: PRESSING FORWARD AS PARENTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> Pressing Forward As Parents – Principles and Promises That Will Pick Us Up, Guide Us, and Bring Us Peace</span> by </b></i><b>S</b><i><b>cott and Angelle Anderson</b></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This address was given at the 2000 Family Expo Conference</span></span><br />
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I. Planting the Promises in Our Hearts as Parents<br />
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A. "There are no perfect families, either in the world or in the Church, but there are many good families." Elder Maxwell (Ensign May 1994 p. 119) Finding balance (see Mosiah 4:27) "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you ... let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:27) "I submit to you that may be one on the Savior's commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful Latter-day Saints, almost universally disobeyed..." Elder Holland (CES Fireside, Mar. 2, 1997) "But learn that he who doeth the works of righteousness shall receive his reward, even peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come." (D&C 59:23)<br />
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B. The Tree of Life<br />
1. 1 Nephi 8:24-28 This group were "clingers" (perhaps nervous or even panicked). They came to the tree <br />
and were ashamed. They heeded the people in the great and spacious building and fell away. The gospel <br />
was not internalized.<br />
2. Compare I Nephi 8:30-33. This group pressed forward-- "continually holding fast." They arrived at the<br />
tree and immediately fell down in reverence and gratitude. They 'heeded not' those in the great and<br />
spacious building. The gospel was internalized.<br />
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C. Nephi 31:20--A pattern of principles to help us press forward.<br />
1.Steadfast in Christ (see I Nephi 2: 12 and 16) "Now, parents, there is substantial help for you if you will <br />
accept it. I add with emphasis that the help we propose is not easy, for the measures are equal to the <br />
seriousness of your problem. There is no patent medicine to effect an immediate cure. And parents, if you <br />
seek for a cure that ignores faith and religious doctrine, you look for a cure where it will never be found.<br />
When we talk of religious principles and doctrines and quote scripture, interesting isn't it, how many don't <br />
feel comfortable with talk like that? But when we talk about your problems with your family and offer a<br />
solution, then your interest is intense.<br />
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Know that you can't talk about one without the other and expect to solve your problems. Once parents<br />
know that there is a God and that we are His children, they can face problems like this and win. If you are<br />
helpless, He is not. If you are lost, He is not. If you don't know what to do next, He knows. It would take<br />
a miracle, you say? Well, if it takes a miracle, why not." Pres. Packer ("That All May Be Edified" SLC:<br />
Bookcraft 1982)<br />
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2. Brightness of Hope (see Alma 5 8:8-12) - Facing an 'innumerable' host, embarrassments etc. they <br />
poured out their whole souls in prayer to be strengthened and delivered, "...God did visit us with<br />
assurances that He would deliver us ... He did speak peace to our souls ... grant unto us great faith..."<br />
which gave them hope and courage with a with a determination to conquer.<br />
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"There are some great spiritual promises which may help faithful parents in this church. Children of eternal<br />
sealings may have visited upon them the divine promises made to their valiant forebears who nobly kept<br />
their covenants. Covenants remembered by parents will be remembered by God. The children may thus<br />
become the beneficiaries an inheritors of these great covenants and promises. This is because they are the <br />
children of the Covenant." Pres. Faust (Ensign, Nov. 1990)<br />
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"The prophet Joseph Smith declared-and he never taught a more comforting doctrine-that the eternal<br />
sealings of faithful parents and the divine promises made to them for valiant service in the Cause of Truth, <br />
would save not only themselves, but likewise their posterity. Though some of the sheep may wander, the<br />
eye of the Shepherd is upon them, and sooner or later they will feel the tentacles of Divine Providence<br />
reaching out after them and drawing them back to the fold. Either in this life or the life to come, they will<br />
return." (Orson F. Whitney, in Conf. Report, April 1929, p. I 10.) (Ensign, May 1992)<br />
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3. Love of God and of all men<br />
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"And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of<br />
God, or if ye have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of<br />
your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should<br />
remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God...and ye will not have a mind to injure<br />
one another, but to live peaceably ... (see Mosiah 4:10-15)<br />
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4. Feast Upon the Word of Christ "Wherefore I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold,<br />
the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do." (2 Nephi 32:3)<br />
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5. Endure to the End "If ye keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life,<br />
which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God." (D&C 14:7)<br />
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"A successful parent is one who has loved, one who has sacrificed, and one who has cared for, taught, <br />
and ministered to the needs of a child. If you have done all of these and your child is still wayward or<br />
troublesome or worldly, it could well be that you are, nevertheless, a successful parent. Perhaps there are<br />
children who have come into the world that would challenge any set of parents under any set of<br />
circumstances. Likewise, perhaps there are others who would bless the lives of, and be a joy to, almost<br />
any father or mother. "My concern today is that there are parents who may be pronouncing harsh<br />
judgements upon themselves and may be allowing these feelings to destroy their lives, when, in fact they<br />
have done their best and should continue in faith. That all who are parents might find joy in their efforts <br />
with their children is my prayer..." Pres. Hunter (Ensign, Nov. 1983)<br />
"...he (Lehi) began to be desirous that his family should partake of it (the fruit) also." (I Nephi 8: 12)<br />
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II. Planting the Promises in the Hearts of Our Children<br />
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A. Malachi's Prophecy (Mal. 4.-5-6) "Elijah will plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children will turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at the coming of the Lord. (D&C 2:2-3) ..seek diligently to turn hearts (see D&C 98: 16) "...Moroni's adaptation of Malachi's prophecy extends the spirit of the fifth commandment [(Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.")] far beyond simply showing respect for parents, as important as that is. Moroni promised that the Spirit of Elijah (which is the priesthood power by which families may be scaled together) would actually plant in the hearts of the children a desire to realize the same promises the Lord gave to Abraham-and, for many Latter- Day Saint children, the promises made to their parents in the temple. And that blessing, if realized, will save not only them but also the 'whole earth' from being 'wasted.' "How miraculous, literally, that a thirst, even a yearning, for these marvelous blessings might actually take root in our children's own hearts. I suspect that most all parents in Zion pray every night, as we do, that this inborn hunger will be planted in the hearts of their children, supplementing all we can do to help them be receptive to it." (Bruce C. and Marie K. Hafen<br />
The Belonging Heart Deseret Book Co, 1994, SLC. Utah p. 188)<br />
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B. Teaching and Nourishing<br />
"We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want to have forever." Elder Eyring (Ensign, Feb. 1998. p. 18)<br />
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1. Family Gospel Living, Study, and Instruction-Family Home Evening, family prayer, Sunday time and <br />
teaching, routines, music, family activities etc. (see appendix "a Plan for Family Gospel Study" and First Presidency letter 11 Feb. 1999)<br />
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"...it is clear that no matter where a family lives, it is family life and gospel living, intimately intertwined, that most help teenagers become competent, spiritually strong, and faithful Latter-day Saints." Brent L. Top and Bruce A. Chadwick, "Helping Teens Stay Strong" (Ensign, March 1999)<br />
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"I know of no other practice that will have so salutary an effect upon your lives as will the practice of kneeling together in prayer...your children will be blessed with a sense of security that comes of living in a home where dwells the Spirit of God. They will know and love parents who respect one another, and a spirit of respect will grow in their own hearts." Pres. Hinckley ( Satellite Broadcast Jan. 29, 1984)<br />
"What can parents do to help youth internalize gospel principles? 1. Be a good example 2. Hold regular family home evening, family prayer, and scripture study 3. Teach practical applications of gospel principles 4. Provide settings for potential spiritual experiences 5. Encourage children to come to know for themselves" Brent L. Top and Bruce Chadwick, "Helping Teens Stay Strong," (Ensign, March 1999)<br />
"We must build a consistent, planned, program of introducing the principles of the gospel... It rests solely upon the shoulders of parents to establish a gospel foundation in the lives of their children. Of course, there are other organizations that can help, but we want to be certain that we know what they are learning, and that we take the time and have the patience to determine carefully, and in a planned way, that they are growing up with a sure foundation on which to build their lives." Elder L. Tom Perry (Ensign, Nov. 1988, p. 74)<br />
"True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior." Pres. Packer (Ensign, Nov. 1986)<br />
"We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, and we prophecy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." (11 Nephi 25:26)<br />
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"...the hearts of you fathers and mothers must be turned to your children right now, if you have the true spirit of Elijah, and not think that it applies merely to those who are beyond the veil. Let your hearts be turned to your children ... If you are neglecting your family home evening, you are neglecting the beginning of the mission of Elijah just as certainly as if you were neglecting your genealogy research work." Harold B. Lee Priesthood genealogy seminar, 1973; quoted in Leaun G. Otten and C. Max Caldwell, Sacred Truths of the Doctrine and Covenants 2 Vols. [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982]<br />
"I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully<br />
and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will permeate our homes and all who dwell therein. The spirit of reverence will increase- mutual respect and consideration for each other will grow. The spirit of contention will depart. Parents will counsel their children in greater love and wisdom. Children will be more responsive and submissive to the counsel of their parents. Righteousness will increase. Faith, hope, and charity-the pure love of Christ-will abound in our homes and lives, bringing in their wake peace, joy, and happiness. Marion G. Romney (Conf. Report, April 1980, pp. 90-91)<br />
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"There are those hours on Sunday and in a family home evening on Monday the opportunity to combine genuine caring, teaching the gospel, and the bearing of testimony. Across the earth there are families who love and understand their covenants who do that. There is a caution I would give and a promise I would offer about such choices of how to us family time. For a person not yet a member of the Church, to fail to provide such moments of love and faith is simply a lost opportunity. But for those under covenant, it is much more. There are few places where it can matter more for those for whom we are accountable. For members of the church, my caution is that to neglect those opportunities is a choice not to keep sacred covenants. Because God always honors covenants, I can make a promise to those who in faith keep the covenant to create experiences of giving love and bearing testimony with their families. They will reap a harvest of hearts touched, faith in Jesus Christ exercised unto repentance, and the power to keep covenants strengthened. I bear solemn testimony that this is the true Church of Jesus Christ, in which the ordinances and the covenants are offered, which if accepted and honored produce peace in this life and assure us eternal life in the world to come." Elder Eyring (Ensign, Nov. 1998 p. 30)<br />
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2. "One by One'-including parent-child interviews, parent-child "dates," keeping memory books and records, father's blessings, knowing, helping, and celebrating each child (see "What we want our children to have" interview forms, family information sheets, and related ideas in appendix)<br />
The dedication of the book, Cheaper By the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. And Ernestine Gilbreth Carey reads: "to Dad, who only reared twelve children, and to Mother, who reared twelve only children" (New York: Harper and Row, 1949)<br />
Alma the Younger as a Father - (Alma 35-42) Key time in history of church (country falling apart) People offended by the strictness of the word Alma calls his sons together Corianton - (see also D&C 121:41-44) Results (See Alma 49:30) Compare Pahoran-contention in family (Helaman 1)<br />
"A ride in the car, a special meal at a restaurant, or a friendly discussion late at night are good opportunities for parents to strengthen ties with youth." Brent L. Top and Bruce Chadwick "Helping Teens Stay Strong" (Ensign, March 1999 p. 32)<br />
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3. Strengthen Family Unity a. Work as a team!<br />
Family spirit-story, flag, symbol, motto, scripture, hymn, song, cheer, mission statement, etc.<br />
Teamwork--Stewardships, Responsibilities, Councils (see appendix-Family Executive Committee Meeting, Family Council, Family Committees)<br />
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"We found that three family characteristics in particular were significant in fostering moral strength [in youth]: family connectedness, parental regulation, and intellectual autonomy (freedom to express opinions)." Brent L. Top and Bruce A. Chadwick, "Helping Teens Stay Strong" (Ensign, March 1999)<br />
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"My plea-and I wish I were more eloquent in voicing it-is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight. They need happiness. Thy need love and nurture. They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of 35 the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation." Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley, (Ensign, Nov. 1994 )<br />
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"No success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In such a family God can work miracles and will work miracles." Pres. David 0. Mckay (April, 1964)<br />
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Build and maintain traditions of church and temple attendance, learning, reading, talking, laughing, planning, counseling, singing, working, playing, celebrating, traveling, eating, and serving together-- and supporting each other. (see appendix for tradition worksheets and the tradition of giving a gift to the Savior)<br />
"Foster wonderful family traditions which will bind you together eternally. In doing so, we can create a bit of heaven right here on earth within individual families. After all, eternity will be but an extension of righteous family life." Ezra Taft Benson (Ensign, Nov. 1989) "Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities." First Presidency (The Family: A Proclamation to the World) "My counsel<br />
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My counsel to you is to fill up your memory bank and your book of life with as many 'I'm glad I did' activities as you can possibly crowd into one lifetime." Elder L. Tom Perry (Ensign Aug. 1993)<br />
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"To have a time when the family meets at the kitchen table may take considerable adjustment and careful planning, but what could be of more importance to the unity of the family, the spiritual growth of the family, the bridges built between members of a family as they talk, listen, and respond, surrounded by love? Our major success is simply trying-over and over." Elder Le Grand R. Curtis, " A Table Encircled With Love," Ensign, May 1995)<br />
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See list of dinnertime conversation ideas, ideas for mealtime traditions and celebrations, and teaching the gospel around the table in the article "Mealtime, Family Time" Janene W. Baadsgaard (Ensign, Sep. 1998)<br />
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...... teach them to love one another and to serve one another. (Mosiah 4:15) "Richer than I you could never be, For I had a mother who read to me." Strickland Gillian "Read to your children. Read the story of the Son of God. Read to them from the New Testament. Read to them from the Book of Mormon. It will take time, and you are very busy, but it will prove to be a great blessing in your lives as well as in their lives. And there will grow in their hearts a great love for the Savior of the world, the only perfect man who walked the earth. He will become a very real living being, and His great atoning sacrifice as they grow to manhood and womanhood, will take on a new and more glorious meaning in their lives." Pres. Hinckley (quoted in Church News, 6 Dec. 1997)<br />
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"I hope that everyone gets to the temple on a regular basis. I hope your children over 12 years of age have the opportunity of going to the temple to be baptized for the dead. If we are a temple-going people, we will be a better people, we will be better fathers and husbands, we will be better wives and mothers. I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed, life will be better for you. Now, please, please, my beloved brethren and sisters, avail yourselves of the great opportunity to go to the Lord's house and thereby partake of all of the marvelous blessings that are yours to be received there." Pres. Hinckley (Fireside, Lima, Peru, 9 Nov. 1996)<br />
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Keep Records (see "Family Book" in appendix)<br />
"And again, let all the records be had in order ... to be held in remembrance from generation to generation, saith the Lord of Hosts." D&C 127:9<br />
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Strengthen extended family connections<br />
"For most ... life is not a matter of legislative battles, judicial decrees and executive decisions. It is a fabric of helping hands and good neighbors; bedtime stories and shared prayers; loving-packed lunchboxes and household budget balancing- tears wiped away and a precious heritage passed along.; it is hard work and a little put away for the future. In a healthy society, heroes are the men and women, [and] children who hold the world together one home at a time; the parents and grandparents who forgo pleasures, delay purchases, foreclose options, and commit most of their lives to the noblest undertaking of citizenship; raising children who, resting on the shoulders of the previous generation, will see farther than we and reach higher." (The White House Report on the Family, Nov. 1986, pp. 8-9; as quoted in Conference Report, April 1987, p. 103 by Pres. Faust.)<br />
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"The ultimate purpose of all we teach is to unite parents and children in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, linked to their generations, and assured of exaltation..." Pres. Packer (Ensign, May 1995)<br />
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"I would hope that our own children, as the generations go on, would know of their<br />
heritage, to know that thy had fathers who believed and to know that they had fathers who had investigated and who had been out in the world declaring the truth ... feeling it in their hearts and souls that what we do is true." Elder David B. Haight (Ensign, May 1998 p. 8)<br />
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"One of the important skills [in making a person resilient] is the ability to be and feel connected to others." USA Weekend, (March 5-7,1999)<br />
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"Have You thought of something that made you feel connected? Perhaps it was the quilt you slept under ... I believe that these feelings of connection are symbolic of relationships that are eternal. I have great confidence in the spirit of Elijah. We must respond to that spirit. The turning of the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers will provide the power to keep us on course-to keep us connected." Janette Hales Beckham (Ricks College Education Week June 5, 1999)<br />
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"Enlarge the memory"-records, histories, journals, stories, scrapbooks, photographs, videos, song books, family trivia game, ancestor birthday parties, hero to dinner, keepsakes, heirlooms, memorabilia, remembering feelings and experiences, etc.<br />
Foster ties and togetherness-gatherings, parties, family history and temple work, service, trips, reunions, talent shows, sing-ins, writing, oral histories, info sheets, videos, establishing family organizations, round-robin letters, Internet conversations, etc. (see also "Family History: A Work of Love" Mary Ellen Smoot Ensign, March 1999)<br />
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4. Stay on the Path and Never give up!<br />
"And he did exhort them then with all the feeling of a tender parent, that they would hearken to his words, that perhaps the Lord 38 would be merciful to them, and not cast them off, yea, my father did preach unto them." (I Nephi 8:37).<br />
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"Now parents, I desire to inspire you with hope. You who have heartache, you must never give up. No matter how dark it gets or no matter how far away of how far down your son or daughter has fallen, You must never give up. Never, never, never." Boyd K. Packer (Conf. Report Oct. 1970)<br />
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"Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God and that yours is a custodial relationship to them, that I was a parent before you were parents and that I has not relinquished His parental rights or interest in these His little ones. Now, love them, take care of them ... Welcome them into your homes, and nurture them with all of your hearts. They may do, in the years that come, some things you would not want them to do, but be patient, be patient. You have not failed as long as you have tried. Never forget that!" Pres. Hinckley, Salt Lake University Third Stake Conference, 3 Nov. 1996)<br />
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"A child, even one raised with great love and care and carefully taught, may choose, when an adult, not to follow those teachings for a variety of reasons ... we understand the principle of agency. We pray that life's experiences will help them regain their desire and ability to live the gospel. They are still our children, and we will love and care about them always. We do not lock the doors of our house nor the doors to our hearts." Elder Robert D. Hales (Ensign, Nov. 1993, p. 10)<br />
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"The gospel is good news! Man is that he might have joy. Be happy! Let that happiness shine through your faces and speak through your testimonies. You can expect problems. There may be occasional tragedies. But shining through it all is the plea from the Lord: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden light. (Matthew 11:28-30). 1 enjoy these words of Jenkins Lloyd Jones which I clipped from a column some years ago: Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey .. delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.' "I repeat, my brothers and sisters, the trick is the thank the Lord for letting you have the ride; and really isn't it a wonderful ride? Enjoy it! Laugh about it! Sing about it! Remember the words of the writer of proverbs: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." (Prov. 17:22) Pres. Hinckley (address to Religious Educators, Sept. 1978)<br />
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"If you're on the straight and narrow path and pressing forward, and you die, you'll never get off the path. There is no such thing as falling off the straight and narrow path in the life to come, and the reason is that this life is the time that is given to men to prepare for eternity ... so, if you're working zealously in this life-though you haven't fully overcome the world and you haven't done all you hoped you might do-you're still going to be saved. You don't have to live a life that's truer than true. You don't have to have an excessive zeal that becomes fanatical and becomes unbalancing. What you have to do is stay in the mainstream of the Church and live as upright and decent people live in the Church-keeping the commandments, paying your tithing, serving in the organizations of the Church, loving the Lord, staying on the straight and narrow path." Bruce R. McConkie, The Probatioiiary Test of mortality, address given 10 Jan., 1982</div>
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After giving a lesson on motherhood, Janeane Baasgauard was approached by a mom who said: I have one child in preschool, one in elementary, one in jr high, one in high school, and one on a mission!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Because our Father in Heaven loves his children, he will not leave us to guess about what matters most in this life concerning where our attention could bring happiness or our indifference could bring sadness." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“And these words… shall be in thy heart; And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them
when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest
by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up.” Deut. 6:6-7 </span></span><br />
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gospel [to our children]…Of course there are other organizations that can help,
but we should want to be certain that we know what they are learning, and that
we take the time and have the patience to determine carefully and in a planned,
organized way, that they are growing up with a sure foundation on which to
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all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then
learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a
great store of useful knowledge which will not only be a great blessing to
yourselves and your children, but to your fellow men.”</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></span><br />
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calls to troubled souls in truly tempting tones. Do not yield to his
enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the
soul will not be met by a never-ending quest for joy amidst the thrills of
sensation and vice. Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love.
Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.” Thomas S. Monson,
Ensign, July 1988</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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holding family home evenings, and studying the scriptures with our children are
important foundations. As we strive to create a spiritual environment, our
family members can be led to those experiences that will help them build their
own personal testimonies” </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 10pt;">“If
you wish your children to be taught in the principles of the gospel, if you
wish them to love the truth and understand it, if you wish them to be obedient
to and united with you, love them! and prove … that you do love them by your
every word and act to[ward] them” (President Joseph F. Smith,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="emphasis"><i><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Gospel Doctrine,</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>5th ed. [1939], 316).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">God does notice us, and he watches over
us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.
Therefore, it is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom” (Spencer W. Kimball “Small Acts of
Service,”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ensign,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Dec.
1974, pp. 2, 5).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">“Every noble impulse, every unselfish
expression of love, every brave suffering for the right; every surrender of
self to something higher than self; every loyalty to an ideal; every unselfish
devotion to principle; every helpfulness to humanity; every act of
self-control; every fine courage of the soul, undefeated by pretense or policy,
but by being, doing, and living of good for the very good’s sake—that is
spirituality” (“Something Higher Than Self,” in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Speeches
of the Year,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>12 Oct.
1965, pp. 4–5).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">President Ezra Taft Benson
taught that “when you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed” (“Born
of God,”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ensign,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Nov.
1985, 5). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">“I find that when I get
casual in my<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="highlight"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">relationships</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">with divinity and when it seems … no divine voice is speaking, … if I
immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality
returns” (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 8.5pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">: “We sow our thoughts, and we reap our
actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we
reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny” (quoted in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
Home Book of Quotations,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>sel.
Burton Stevenson [1934], 845).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">“For verily, verily I say unto you, he
that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is
the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with
anger, one with another” (<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/3_ne/11/29#29" target="contentWindow"><span style="color: #003366;">3 Ne. 11:29</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">To
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<span style="color: #333333;"> <sup>“</sup>…seek
me <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">diligently</b> and ye shall find me…”
(D&C 88:63)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Search <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">diligently</b>, pray
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covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another.” (D&C
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grow, by your
faith with great <span class="searchword1">diligence</span>, and with patience,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">diligence</b>, and patience, and
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“H</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">appily, the Lord really does increase the capacity of the diligent…”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> Neal A. Maxwell,
“Wisdom and Order,” <i>Ensign</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">, Jun 1994, 41</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">“As our
sons were growing up, our family did what you have done and what you now do. We
had regular family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening. Now, I am sure what I am about to describe has
never occurred in your home, but it did in ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Sometimes
Sister Bednar and I wondered if our efforts to do these spiritually essential
things were worthwhile. Now and then verses of scripture were read amid
outbursts such as “He’s touching me!” “Make him stop looking at me!” “Mom, he’s
breathing my air!” Sincere prayers occasionally were interrupted with giggling
and poking. And with active, rambunctious boys, family home evening lessons did
not always produce high levels of edification. At times Sister Bednar and I
were exasperated because the righteous habits we worked so hard to foster did
not seem to yield immediately the spiritual results we wanted and expected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Today if you could ask our adult sons what they remember about family
prayer, scripture study, and family home evening, I believe I know how they
would answer. They likely would not identify a particular prayer or a specific
instance of scripture study or an especially meaningful family home evening
lesson as the defining moment in their spiritual development. What they would
say they remember is that as a family we were consistent.” </span><span lang="EN">David A. Bednar, “More
Diligent and Concerned at Home,” <i>Ensign</i>, Nov 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of your own. How have we done in preparing you for this new life?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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our concern, and with loving-kindness said, “Mom and Dad, we have had our
challenges over the years, but I have always known that you loved me and you
loved the gospel of Jesus Christ. And
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">"We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want to have forever."</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">Elder Eyring <i>Ensign</i>, Feb. 1998</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Family Home Evening, family prayer, Scriptures, Sunday time, wholesome family recreation </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">(see First Presidency letter </span><st1:date day="11" month="2" year="1999"><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">11 Feb. 1999</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">) “</span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 8pt;">Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one event may appear to be very impressive or memorable. But just as the yellow and gold and brown strokes of paint complement each other and produce an impressive masterpiece, so our consistency in doing seemingly small things can lead to significant spiritual results. “Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great” (<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/64/33#33" target="contentWindow"><span style="color: #003366;">D&C 64:33</span></a>). Consistency is a key principle as we lay the foundation of a great work in our individual lives and as we become more diligent and concerned in our own homes.” </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 8pt;">David A. Bednar, “More Diligent and Concerned at Home,”</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 8pt;">Ensign</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 8pt;">, Nov 2009</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">"...it is clear that no matter where a family lives, it is family life and gospel living, intimately intertwined, that most help teenagers become competent, spiritually strong, and faithful Latter-day Saints." </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">Brent L. Top and Bruce A. Chadwick, "Helping Teens Stay Strong" <i>Ensign</i>, March 1999<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">"We must build a consistent, planned, program of introducing the principles of the gospel... It rests solely upon the shoulders of parents to establish a gospel foundation in the lives of their children. Of course, there are other organizations that can help, but we want to be certain that we know what they are learning, and that we take the time and have the patience to determine carefully, and in a planned way, that they are growing up with a sure foundation on which to build their lives." </span><span style="color: black;">Elder L. Tom Perry <i>Ensign</i>, Nov. 1988<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">"...the hearts of you fathers and mothers must be turned to your children right now, if you have the true spirit of Elijah, and not think that it applies merely to those who are beyond the veil. Let your hearts be turned to your children ... If you are neglecting your family home evening, you are neglecting the beginning of the mission of Elijah just as certainly as if you were neglecting your genealogy research work." </span><span style="color: black;">Harold B. Lee Priesthood genealogy seminar, 1973; quoted in Leaun G. Otten and C. Max Caldwell, <i>Sacred Truths of the Doctrine and Covenants </i> Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company 1982<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">"I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will permeate our homes and all who dwell therein. The spirit of reverence will increase- mutual respect and consideration for each other will grow. The spirit of contention will depart. Parents will counsel their children in greater love and wisdom. Children will be more responsive and submissive to the counsel of their parents. Righteousness will increase. Faith, hope, and charity-the pure love of Christ-will abound in our homes and lives, bringing in their wake peace, joy, and happiness.” </span><span style="color: black;">Marion G. Romney <i>Ensign</i> May 1980<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75;">And it came to pass that after much tribulation and joy, they brought forth many children. Janalyn was born in 1972, the year of seeking the University of Utah degree while dwelling in the apartment. Jonathan was born in 1974, the year of the first Seminay teaching job. Scott and Angelle discovered that having two children was not only more fun than only one child, but more work, too. But they did not mind the work, so they added a third child in the bi-centennial year of 1976. Angeli was born two months prematurely weighing just over three pounds -teaching that miracles sometimes come in small sizes. Spencer tipped the scales in the opposite direction weighing in at ten and seven ounces. Shortly after his birth (which taught that miracles also come in large sizes), the family moved to the "farm" and Scott began teaching and attending college at Brigham Young University. In the year 1983, Lolly was born in the midst of Scott and Angelle (and various helpers) building a new home, Scott finishing a doctoral degree in marriage and family therapy, and a term as bishop of the Bluffale 2nd Ward. Nate was born in the year 1987, and the next year, year both Angelle and Scott walked through the BYU graduation line - he with a PhD and she with a BA. The year 1990 brought in a new decade and the last of the seven children born to Scott and Angelle. Jenali was destined to be the most spoiled of all of the children, but she has always enjoyed having it that way. And all of these children were born of goodly parents who love them more than they have words to say.</span></span></div>
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in which your family can feel the spirit witness of the importance of work. A chance to work and reap rewards from laboring together will also witness of the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">joy</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">of work!!!</span></div>
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Hi everyone!<br>
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">WE LOVE FHE AND ALWAYS WILL!</span></i> Thats not to say it hasn't been a challenge to have it over the years...<br>
We will post more on the subject...but for now, you can go to<br>
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and 14562 articles will come up when you click the search bar and type in Family Home Evening!<br>
LDS.org also has sections specifically on FHE and strengthening your family. Wow!<br>
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</div><a href="https://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/2010/09/family-home-evening.html#more">Continue reading...</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693035920556032954.post-37401799713343255052010-09-27T10:24:00.001-07:002015-04-03T10:22:32.528-07:00Family Executive Committee Meeting, Family Council, Parent-Child Interviews<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">When we first introduced this concept to our children, they were not sure they wanted to participate, so we initiated <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"ice-cream interviews"</span> and they liked them a lot! After a while, they discovered that having mom or dad (or both of us) all to themselves was not all so bad! In fact, the interviews got quite lengthy, so we had to limit the amount of time they could take, and then plan for some more one-on-one time during the week.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The goal was to have personal a parent interview (PPI) with each child each week. More often than not, we ended up having them on fast Sundays. The records kept on our "forms" are priceless. They are a journal of sorts, and have helped us remember what was said and decided, our hopes, dreams, concerns, and feelings...its all there - right on paper!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Agenda (items to discuss)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Discussion of each family member--one by one</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Action plans</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Time of next Meeting</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Hugs and Kisses</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Closing prayer</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Family Council</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Date</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Conducting</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Opening Song/hymn (can be the one for the month)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Scripture (one for the month or other)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Opening Prayer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Calendaring: Sunday - Saturday</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Stewardship Committee Report and Review</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Action plans</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Time of next meeting</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Hugs and Kisses and Family Squishes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Closing Prayer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><i><b>Personal Parent Interview (PPI):</b></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Name</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Date</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Interview with _______________ </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Scripture of the month (or other)</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>song (hymn for the month or other)</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>O.Prayer</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Feelings/happy things in life/ compliments/ applause/gratitude/ask for forgiveness</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>List concerns to be discussed now and/or during </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>personal/parent time</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Family Night assignment and input</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Family Stewardship committee goals, needs and ideas</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Calendar items</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Finances and tithing</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Personal Time with parent or parents for the upcoming week</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Dinner day (menu)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>Primary/Personal Progress/Scouting/Duty to God info, updates, ideas, goals</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b>hugs and expressions of love to each other</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Closing prayer</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; line-height: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Steven B. Glade, “Twelve Tips for Parent-Child Interviews,” </span></b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ensign</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Jun 1997, 59</span></b></span></span><br />
<a href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=e90b57b60090c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>read</b></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; line-height: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Carlos E. Asay, “Parent-Child Interviews,” </span></b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ensign</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Nov 1983, 14</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; line-height: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Wendell P. Droubay, “Heart to Heart,” </span></b></span><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ensign</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Jun 1997, 57</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=5cfa57b60090c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD">read</a></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>M. Russell Ballard and Barbara Ballard, “Family Councils: A Conversation with Elder and Sister Ballard,” </b></span><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ensign</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>, Jun 2003, 14</b></span></span> </span><br />
<a href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=325a74536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>read</b></span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;"><b>M. Russell Ballard, “Counseling with Our Councils,” </b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Ensign</b></i><b>, May 1994, 24</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=ae53425e0848b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">read</span></b></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: #666666; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;"><b><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;"><b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px;"><b>Ensign</b></i><b>, Nov 1993, 76</b> </b></span></span></span></span><b>“M. Russell Ballard, Strength in Counsel,”</b></span><a href="http://url/%22"><br /></a><a href="http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=ac5b425e0848b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>read</b></span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><b>Marvin K. Gardner, “Family Councils: Making Decisions Together,” </b><i style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Ensign</b></i><b>, Dec 1978, 18</b></span></span><br />
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“We should regularly review our family income, savings, and spending plan in <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">family</span> <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffcc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">council</span> meetings. This will teach our children to recognize the difference between wants and needs and to plan ahead for meaningful use of family resources. . . . Whenever we want to experience or possess something that will impact us and our resources, we may want to ask ourselves, ‘Is the benefit temporary, or will it have eternal value and significance?’ Truthfully answering these questions may help us avoid excessive debt and other addictive behavior.”<br />
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Activities are a way to create fun for families and to help get gospel principles inside our family members - to internalize them. For ideas using activities to "finalize" a month of gospel study, go <a href="http://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/search/label/creating%20a%20Christ-centered%20home">here</a>. For information and ideas for "wholesome family recreation, go <a href="http://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/search/label/wholesome%20family%20recreation">here</a>.<br />
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Write the following activities on separate pieces of paper and place in a hat. Have everyone draw one out in turn and do them!<br />
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<b><i>Play 5 rounds of family “Pictionary”. Some possible words might be: family night, bishop, dad, mom, grandparents, work, atmosphere, etc.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Lead everyone in your favorite exercise<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Share with everyone one thing you have learned in the last three days<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Lead everyone in your favorite song<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Tell your favorite joke<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Tell everyone about your favorite place to be<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Share a favorite family memory<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Play five minutes of “snort”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i> happy, a favorite food or joke, a favorite scripture story, a favorite hero and why, <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To see how hymns can be part of an on-going gospel study program for families, click <a href="http://creatingachristcenteredmormonhome.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-gospel-topical-study.html" target="_blank">HERE </a><br />
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F I R S T PRESIDENCY MESSAGE (PREFACE)<br />
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Latter-day Saints have a long tradition of choir singing. Every ward and</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
branch in the Church should have a choir that performs regularly. We encourage</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
choirs to use the hymnbook as their basic resource.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Music in Our Homes</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Music has boundless powers for moving families toward greater spirituality</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
and devotion to the gospel. Latter-day Saints should fill their homes with</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
the sound of worthy music.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Ours is a hymnbook for the home as well as for the meetinghouse. We</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
hope the hymnbook will take a prominent place among the scriptures and</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
other religious books in our homes. The hymns can bring families a spirit of</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
beauty and peace and can inspire love and unity among family members.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Teach your children to love the hymns. Sing them on the Sabbath, in home</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
evening, during scripture study, at prayer time. Sing as you work, as you play,</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
and as you travel together. Sing hymns as lullabies to build faith and testimony</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
in your young ones.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Music in Our Personal Lives</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
In addition to blessing us as Church and family members, the hymns can</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
greatly benefit us as individuals. Hymns can lift our spirits, give us courage,</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
and move us to righteous action. They can fill our souls with heavenly thoughts</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
and bring us a spirit of peace.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Hymns can also help us withstand the temptations of the adversary. We</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
encourage you to memorize your favorite hymns and study the scriptures that</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
relate to them. Then, if unworthy thoughts enter your mind, sing a hymn to</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
yourself, crowding out the evil with the good.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Brothers and sisters, let us use the hymns to invite the Spirit of the Lord</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
into our congregations, our homes, and our personal lives. Let us memorize</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
and ponder them, recite and sing them, and partake of their spiritual nourishment.</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Know that the song of the righteous is a prayer unto our Father in</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
Heaven, “and it shall be answered with a blessing upon [your] heads.”</span><br /><span style="color: red;">
The First Presidency</span><br />
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<b>Boy Sings Primary Songs until Rescued in </b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>Haiti</b></st1:place></st1:country-region></span></div>
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Five-year-old Gancci Saintelus jumped up and down with excitement when his mother, Soline, three-year-old sister, Angie, and one-year-old brother, Gansly, walked into his hospital room at the Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, January 21st. During the reunion, Soline cried and held her son, while Angie asked where her brother’s arm was. The family was separated seven days ago when Gancci and his dad, Olgan, left their devastated country of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region> behind to save Gancci’s life.The Saintelus family reunion was heartwarming and their story is quite miraculous. </div>
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When the earthquake struck <st1:country-region><st1:place>Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region> on Tuesday, January 12, Olgan was working at the Holiday Inn and Soline was at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Centrale chapel meeting with the bishop about a new church calling. Both parents were unharmed and went to check on their three children at home who where staying with a caretaker. They found their three-story apartment complex had collapsed.</div>
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“We thought our children had died,” remembered Olgan. “I kept praying to Heavenly Father to help us find our children.”</div>
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It took ten hours to dig their children out of the rubble. Their oldest son, Gancci, was singing primary songs that could be heard by rescue workers trying to dig him out. The Saintelus children and caretaker were the only survivors found in the collapsed building.</div>
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Gancci had the most serious injuries and needed medical attention right away. Olgan left his wife and two children at the church building and went searching for help for his son.</div>
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“I went to the hospital but they told me to wait outside,” Olgan recalled. “Many people were waiting to be helped.” </div>
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Olgan decided to take his son to his workplace at the Holiday Inn. He pleaded with people he met in the hallways of the hotel to help him.</div>
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Pressing Forward As Parents – Principles and Promises That Will Pick Us Up, Guide Us, and Bring Us Peace</span> by </b></i><b>S</b><i><b>cott and Angelle Anderson</b></i><br />
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I. Planting the Promises in Our Hearts as Parents</div>
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A. "There are no perfect families, either in the world or in the Church, but there are many good families." Elder Maxwell (Ensign May 1994 p. 119) Finding balance (see Mosiah 4:27) "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you ... let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:27) "I submit to you that may be one on the Savior's commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful Latter-day Saints, almost universally disobeyed..." Elder Holland (CES Fireside, Mar. 2, 1997) "But learn that he who doeth the works of righteousness shall receive his reward, even peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come." (D&C 59:23) B. The Tree of Life</div>
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1. 1 Nephi 8:24-28 This group were "clingers" (perhaps nervous or even panicked). They came to the tree and were ashamed. They heeded the people in the great and spacious building and fell away. The gospel was not internalized.</div>
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2. Compare I Nephi 8:30-33. This group pressed forward-- "continually holding fast." They arrived at the tree and immediately fell down in reverence and gratitude. They 'heeded not' those in the great and spacious building. The gospel was internalized.</div>
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1.Steadfast in Christ (see I Nephi 2: 12 and 16) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">N</span>ow, parents, there is substantial help for you if you will accept it. I add with emphasis that the help we propose is not easy, for the measures are equal to theseriousness of your problem. There is no patent medicine to effect an immediate cure. And parents, if you seek for a cure that ignores faith and religious doctrine, you look for a cure where it will never be found. When we talk of religious principles and doctrines and quote scripture, interesting isn't it, how many don't feel comfortable with talk like that? But when we talk about your problems with your family and offer a solution, then your interest is intense.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"There are some great spiritual promises which may help faithful parents in this church. Children of eternal sealings may have visited upon them the divine promises made to their valiant forebears who nobly kept their covenants. Covenants remembered by parents will be remembered by God. The children may thus become the beneficiaries an inheritors of these great covenants and promises. This is because they are the children of the Covenant." Pres. Faust (Ensign, Nov. 1990)</span></div>
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"The prophet Joseph Smith declared-and he never taught a more comforting doctrine-that the eternal sealings of faithful parents and the divine promises made to them for valiant service in the Cause of Truth, would save not only themselves, but likewise their posterity. Though some of the sheep may wander, the eye of the Shepherd is upon them, and sooner or later they will feel the tentacles of Divine Providence reaching out after them and drawing them back to the fold. Either in this life or the life to come, they will return." (Orson F. Whitney, in Conf. Report, April 1929, p. I 10.) (Ensign, May 1992)</div>
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"And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God...and ye will not have a mind to injure one another, but to live peaceably ... (see Mosiah 4:10-15)</div>
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4. Feast Upon the Word of Christ "Wherefore I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do." (2 Nephi 32:3)</div>
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5. Endure to the End "If ye keep my commandments and endure to the end you shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God." (D&C 14:7)</div>
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<span style="color: red;"> "A successful parent is one who has loved, one who has sacrificed, and one who has cared for, taught, and</span><span style="color: red;"> ministered to the needs of a child. If you have done all of these and your child is still wayward or</span><span style="color: red;"> troublesome or worldly, it could well be that you are, nevertheless, a successful parent. Perhaps there are</span><span style="color: red;"> children who have come into the world that would challenge any set of parents under any set of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> circumstances. Likewise, perhaps there are others who would bless the lives of, and be a joy to, almost </span><span style="color: red;">any father or mother. "My concern today is that there are parents who may be pronouncing harsh</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> judgements upon themselves and may be allowing these feelings to destroy their lives, when, in fact they</span></div>
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A. Malachi's Prophecy (Mal. 4.-5-6) "Elijah will plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children will turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at the coming of the Lord. (D&C 2:2-3) ..seek diligently to turn hearts (see D&C 98: 16) "...Moroni's adaptation of Malachi's prophecy extends the spirit of the fifth commandment [(Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.")] far beyond simply showing respect for parents, as important as that is. Moroni promised that the Spirit of Elijah (which is the priesthood power by which families may be scaled together) would actually plant in the hearts of the children a desire to realize the same promises the Lord gave to Abraham-and, for many Latter- Day Saint children, the promises made to their parents in the temple. And that blessing, if realized, will save not only them but also the 'whole earth' from being 'wasted.' "How miraculous, literally, that a thirst, even a yearning, for these marvelous blessings might actually take root in our children's own hearts. I suspect that most all parents in Zion pray every night, as we do, that this inborn hunger will be planted in the hearts of their children, supplementing all we can do to help them be receptive to it." (Bruce C. and Marie K. Hafen</div>
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"We must build a consistent, planned, program of introducing the principles of the gospel... It rests solely upon the shoulders of parents to establish a gospel foundation in the lives of their children. Of course, there are other organizations that can help, but we want to be certain that we know what they are learning, and that we take the time and have the patience to determine carefully, and in a planned way, that they are growing up with a sure foundation on which to build their lives." Elder L. Tom Perry (Ensign, Nov. 1988, p. 74)</div>
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"We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, and we prophecy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." (11 Nephi 25:26)</div>
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"...the hearts of you fathers and mothers must be turned to your children right now, if you have the true spirit of Elijah, and not think that it applies merely to those who are beyond the veil. Let your hearts be turned to your children ... If you are neglecting your family home evening, you are neglecting the beginning of the mission of Elijah just as certainly as if you were neglecting your genealogy research work." Harold B. Lee Priesthood genealogy seminar, 1973; quoted in Leaun G. Otten and C. Max Caldwell, Sacred Truths of the Doctrine and Covenants 2 Vols. [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982]</div>
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and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will permeate our homes and all who dwell therein. The spirit of reverence will increase- mutual respect and consideration for each other will grow. The spirit of contention will depart. Parents will counsel their children in greater love and wisdom. Children will be more responsive and submissive to the counsel of their parents. Righteousness will increase. Faith, hope, and charity-the pure love of Christ-will abound in our homes and lives, bringing in their wake peace, joy, and happiness. Marion G. Romney (Conf. Report, April 1980, pp. 90-91)</div>
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"There are those hours on Sunday and in a family home evening on Monday the opportunity to combine genuine caring, teaching the gospel, and the bearing of testimony. Across the earth there are families who love and understand their covenants who do that. There is a caution I would give and a promise I would offer about such choices of how to us family time. For a person not yet a member of the Church, to fail to provide such moments of love and faith is simply a lost opportunity. But for those under covenant, it is much more. There are few places where it can matter more for those for whom we are accountable. For members of the church, my caution is that to neglect those opportunities is a choice not to keep sacred covenants. Because God always honors covenants, I can make a promise to those who in faith keep the covenant to create experiences of giving love and bearing testimony with their families. They will reap a harvest of hearts touched, faith in Jesus Christ exercised unto repentance, and the power to keep covenants strengthened. I bear solemn testimony that this is the true Church of Jesus Christ, in which the ordinances and the covenants are offered, which if accepted and honored produce peace in this life and assure us eternal life in the world to come." Elder Eyring (Ensign, Nov. 1998 p. 30)</div>
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The dedication of the book, Cheaper By the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. And Ernestine Gilbreth Carey reads: "to Dad, who only reared twelve children, and to Mother, who reared twelve only children" (New York: Harper and Row, 1949)</div>
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"Foster wonderful family traditions which will bind you together eternally. In doing so, we can create a bit of heaven right here on earth within individual families. After all, eternity will be but an extension of righteous family life." Ezra Taft Benson (Ensign, Nov. 1989) "Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities." First Presidency (The Family: A Proclamation to the World) "My counsel to you is to fill up your memory bank and your book of life with as many 'I'm glad I did' activities as you can possibly crowd into one lifetime." Elder L. Tom Perry (Ensign Aug. 1993) "To have a time when the family meets at the kitchen table may take considerable adjustment and careful planning, but what could be of more importance to the unity of the family, the spiritual growth of the family, the bridges built between members of a family as they talk, listen, and respond, surrounded by love? Our major success is simply trying-over and over." Elder Le Grand R. Curtis, " A Table Encircled With Love," Ensign, May 1995) See list of dinnertime conversation ideas, ideas for mealtime traditions and celebrations, and teaching the gospel around the table in the article <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">"Mealtime, Family Time" Janene W. Baadsgaard (Ensign, Sep. 1998)</span></div>
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Pres. Hinckley (quoted in Church News, 6 Dec. 1997) "I hope that everyone gets to the temple on a regular basis. I hope your children over 12 years of age have the opportunity of going to the temple to be baptized for the dead. If we are a temple-going people, we will be a better people, we will be better fathers and husbands, we will be better wives and mothers. I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed, life will be better for you. Now, please, please, my beloved brethren and sisters, avail yourselves of the great opportunity to go to the Lord's house and thereby partake of all of the marvelous blessings that are yours to be received there." Pres. Hinckley (Fireside, Lima, Peru, 9 Nov. 1996)</div>
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"For most ... life is not a matter of legislative battles, judicial decrees and executive decisions. It is a fabric of helping hands and good neighbors; bedtime stories and shared prayers; loving-packed lunchboxes and household budget balancing- tears wiped away and a precious heritage passed along.; it is hard work and a little put away for the future. In a healthy society, heroes are the men and women, [and] children who hold the world together one home at a time; the parents and grandparents who forgo pleasures, delay purchases, foreclose options, and commit most of their lives to the noblest undertaking of citizenship; raising children who, resting on the shoulders of the previous generation, will see farther than we and reach higher." (The White House Report on the Family, Nov. 1986, pp. 8-9; as quoted in Conference Report, April 1987, p. 103 by Pres. Faust.)</div>
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heritage, to know that thy had fathers who believed and to know that they had fathers who had investigated and who had been out in the world declaring the truth ... feeling it in their hearts and souls that what we do is true." Elder David B. Haight (Ensign, May 1998 p. 8)</div>
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"Have You thought of something that made you feel connected? Perhaps it was the quilt you slept under ... I believe that these feelings of connection are symbolic of relationships that are eternal. I have great confidence in the spirit of Elijah. We must respond to that spirit. The turning of the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers will provide the power to keep us on course-to keep us connected." Janette Hales Beckham (Ricks College Education Week June 5, 1999) </div>
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"Now parents, I desire to inspire you with hope. You who have heartache, you must never give up. No matter how dark it gets or no matter how far away of how far down your son or daughter has fallen, You must never give up. Never, never, never." Boyd K. Packer (Conf. Report Oct. 1970)</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The gospel is good news! Man is that he might have joy. Be happy! Let that happiness shine through your faces and speak through your testimonies. You can expect problems. There may be occasional tragedies. But shining through it all is the plea from the Lord: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden light. (Matthew 11:28-30). 1 enjoy these words of Jenkins Lloyd Jones which I clipped from a column some years ago: Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey .. delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.' "I repeat, my brothers and sisters, the trick is the thank the Lord for letting you have the ride; and really isn't it a wonderful ride? Enjoy it! Laugh about it! Sing about it! Remember the words of the writer of proverbs: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." (Prov. 17:22) Pres. Hinckley (address to Religious Educators, Sept. 1978)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">For many years, when I would hear counsel to “just do your best,” feelings of inadequacy would trouble me. I seldom felt that I was doing my best. How could I be, when I was surrounded daily by evidence of my faults and mistakes? Any statement like the following could discourage me for weeks on end:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">These feelings led me to a quest to discover what “doing your best” really means, and how I could make a righteous judgment as to whether or not I was doing my best. I began by looking up the word “best” in the topical guide. I hoped to find clarification. I found that the word “best” was in the scriptures. In the topical guide, it is listed as an adjective - with five scriptural references to best gifts, best books, and best blood (of the nine-teenth century). I could find no references with the words “doing your best.” As I prayed (and studied and fasted) for further direction, I was prompted to study my patriarchal blessing. I knew that the phrase “do your best” was not there, but as I read for guidance, I made a discovery that has changed my life. I am counseled many times in my blessing to be “diligent.” With each admonition, there is a promise attached. This pattern is replete in the scriptures. The word “diligence” (or some form of it) is found 123 times in the scriptures – oftimes with a promise for obedience attached. For example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">I found that definitions of “being diligent” include: having perseverance, working zealously, being conscientiousness, showing determination and carefulness, and putting forth steady, honest effort. I found that “diligence” was also defined as being tireless, indefatigable, unremitting, and steadfast. Digging deeper into the meaning of “diligence,” I discovered that it comes from Latin words that are defined as<span style="color: #333333;"> “to love,” and “to esteem.” For me, this knowledge</span> shed a whole new light on the meaning of diligence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Diligere” and “ligi” are defined as “approval, to read, to gather, to aspire to, to value, to appreciate, and to single out.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The words “diligo, diligere, dilexi, and dilectus,”</span> are described in this manner: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">So here is the inspiration I received – a discovery that has made all the difference in my perception of how I am doing and given me hope: “Doing your best” is another way of saying, “being diligent.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma;">By replacing the words “do your best,” with the scriptural words “be diligent,” I have been able to relieve a lot of guilt and worry in my life. I have found a way to allow myself to continue in faith, unimpeded by a false concept of what is required of me. Simply put, I can <u>love</u> what I try to do and <u>never stop</u> trying to do it. I can do that – I can be diligent! I can collect on all of those amazing and needed promises found in the scriptures. And I do – every day. That is what “doing my best” is all about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Being a diligent mother has its challenges – no question. I don’t know of any other calling that demands a greater capacity to do all that is required. I have found that miracles happen when I diligently try to “keep up” as a mom. Somehow, my load is lightened or my capacity is increased as I press forward. King Benjamin’s counsel to “do all things in wisdom and order,” and to “not run faster than you have strength,” yet “be diligent” (see Mosiah 4:27) has new meaning for me in light of my discovery. One reason is this promise made by </span><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;">Elder Maxwell:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">“H</span>appily, the Lord really does increase the capacity of the diligent…”<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Diligence does have many rewards! There are too many ways to even consider them all, and too many blessings and promises to comprehend as we put “diligence” into practice. Even so, the effects of our work are not always immediately seen. More often than not, we wonder if our efforts are making a difference at all as we are raising our children. <span style="color: #333333;">I appreciate the honesty with which Elder Bednar shared the following:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext;">“As our sons were growing up, our family did what you have done and what you now do. We had regular family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening. Now, I am sure what I am about to describe has never occurred in your home, but it did in ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext;">Sometimes Sister Bednar and I wondered if our efforts to do these spiritually essential things were worthwhile. Now and then verses of scripture were read amid outbursts such as “He’s touching me!” “Make him stop looking at me!” “Mom, he’s breathing my air!” Sincere prayers occasionally were interrupted with giggling and poking. And with active, rambunctious boys, family home evening lessons did not always produce high levels of edification. At times Sister Bednar and I were exasperated because the righteous habits we worked so hard to foster did not seem to yield immediately the spiritual results we wanted and expected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;">Today if you could ask our adult sons what they remember about family prayer, scripture study, and family home evening, I believe I know how they would answer. They likely would not identify a particular prayer or a specific instance of scripture study or an especially meaningful family home evening lesson as the defining moment in their spiritual development. What they would say they remember is that as a family we were consistent.” </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">David A. Bednar, “More Diligent and Concerned at Home,” <i>Ensign</i>, Nov 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;">So comforting! Diligent parents can look forward to “parental paydays” and have hope that they will come – even when they wonder and worry during those years when their children are “breathing each other’s air.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;">On the eve of our oldest daughter’s marriage, my husband and I had an interview with her. She was not only our oldest daughter, but our oldest child. The next morning she would become the first of our seven children to marry and “leavethe nest.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;"> “Jana, tomorrow you will be beginning a family of your own. How have we done in preparing you for this new life?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial;">She observed our concern, and with loving-kindness said, “Mom and Dad, we have had our challenges over the years, but I have always known that you loved me and you loved the gospel of Jesus Christ. And that is what matters to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial;">I silently sifted through memories of the last two decades. What came through was the fact that she was right – we had been diligent. Not perfect, but definitely diligent. Steady. Steadfast. Persevering. Putting forth constant, loving effort. Choosing to keep trying. Unremitting. Indefatigable and untiring (yet often tired and fatigued). There were many times we wondered if we had “gotten through” or made a difference. But, we loved being parents then and we love being parents now. We love our family more than we have words to say. We will never give up on our quest to rear our children in the love of the Lord and His gospel and to continue on in faith. This is what makes us imperfect, but “diligent” parents who are doing our best to follow the Savior on His path to perfection. Elder Worthlin described this journey well:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7693035920556032954" name="42"></a><span lang="EN">Though you may feel weary, though you sometimes may not be able to see the way, know that your Father in Heaven will never forsake His righteous followers. He will not leave you comfortless. He will be at your side, yes, guiding you every step of the way.”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Joseph B. Wirthlin, “One Step after Another,” <i>Ensign</i>, Nov 2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Tahoma;">In my studies, I found another insight into what Elder Worthlin stated, and into what Jana was telling us on the eve of her wedding, and the beginning of her new life. In the Bible dictionary, I found the word “best” in the definition of “grace.” Since there is peace in my mind concerning my “best efforts,” this definition of grace brings only gratitude for the Savior’s atoning sacrifice and His grace, and not the guilt and confusion I used to feel. And it can do the same for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">A word that occurs frequently in the New Testament, especially in the writings of Paul. The main idea of the word is divine means of help or strength, given through the bounteous mercy and love of Jesus Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">It is through the grace of the Lord Jesus, made possible by his atoning sacrifice, that mankind will be raised in immortality, every person receiving his body from the grave in a condition of everlasting life. It is likewise through the grace of the Lord that individuals, through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and repentance of their sins, receive strength and assistance to do good works that they otherwise would not be able to maintain if left to their own means. This grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after they have expended their own <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">best</b> [<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">diligent</i></b>] efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Divine grace is needed by every soul in consequence of the fall of Adam and also because of man’s weaknesses and shortcomings. However, grace cannot suffice without total effort on the part of the recipient. Hence the explanation, “It is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do” (<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_ne/25/23#23">2 Ne. 25: 23</a>). It is truly the grace of Jesus Christ that makes salvation possible. This principle is expressed in Jesus’ parable of the vine and the branches (<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/john/15/1-11#1">John 15: 1-11</a>). See also <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/john/1/12-17#12">John 1: 12-17</a>; <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/eph/2/8-9#8">Eph. 2: 8-9</a>; <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/philip/4/13#13">Philip. 4: 13</a>; <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/93/11-14#11">D&C 93: 11-14</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Italics added.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<i style="color: #333333;">Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught women in the Church an important spiritual pattern: “By small and simple things are great things brought to pass” (Alma 37:6), during the Brigham Young University Women’s Conference on April 29, 2011. The scripture was also the theme for Women’s Conference.</i><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Many people in our contemporary world are drawn to promises of big results that occur quickly and all at once,” Elder Bednar said. “Consider, for example, all of the money spent on lottery tickets. Recall the claims of advertising messages you have received that pledge immediate weight loss, instant health, fast hair growth, and a more youthful appearance in just 14 days. We are bombarded constantly with messages from a multiplicity of sources promoting speedy supersizing, instant gratification, and outstanding performance that will impress our families and friends.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The adversary made “impressive assertions about big results” in similar ways in premortality, Elder Bednar said, citing Moses 4:1, 3. In contrast to Satan’s method and the methods of the world, “the Lord typically ministers ‘one by one,’” (3 Nephi 11:15) Elder Bednar taught. “He enables us to learn ‘line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little’ (2 Nephi 28:30). And He accomplishes His work by bringing to pass great things through small and simple means.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I believe many, if not all, of the most satisfying and memorable accomplishments in our homes, in the Church, in our jobs and professions, and in our communities will be the product of this important spiritual pattern—of simple and small things,” Elder Bednar said. “Brothers and sisters, we should find great comfort in the fact that ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.”</i></span></div>
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One December we gathered together for a family meeting. We began by asking our 11-year-old son how he would feel if on his birthday we gave presents to everyone but him. He didn’t like that idea at all. We went on to ask if there is a holiday when we give gifts to others but not to the person whose birthday we are celebrating. It didn’t take the children long to realize we were talking about Christmas. We decided to start making Christmas more meaningful by giving gifts to Jesus Christ, whose birthday we are celebrating.</div>
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Our children wondered what they could give the Savior. We talked about what He desires of us. We discussed His Atonement and His desire for us to give up our sins and be obedient. We talked about how He wants us to give of ourselves by serving and sharing our talents.</div>
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That year, we had each family member write on slips of paper the gifts they planned to give the Savior and place the slips in a box. On Christmas morning, before we opened the other gifts, we had family prayer and shared with each other the gifts we were giving the Savior for the coming year.</div>
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As the years have come and gone, the tradition of giving gifts to Jesus Christ has helped our family focus on the real meaning of Christmas and on our love and gratitude for Him.</div>
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Scott and Angelle Anderson,<br />
Bluffdale Second Ward, Bluffdale Utah Stake</div>
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