The Father's plan designed the pattern of family to help us learn, apply and understand the power of love... there is seemingly no end to the capacity to love. The feeling of love from our Heavenly Father is like a gravitational pull from heaven.
** I know this doesn't count towards my 10, but I really liked it.
President Henry B. Eyring- 3/31/12, Families under Covenant
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/families-under-covenant?lang=eng&query=family+under+covenant
"There is nothing as important that will come to your family as being sealed in the temple. Lift and lead your family home to Heavenly Father and the Savior." 1) Gain sure witness that keys of the priesthood are with us. 2) Love your wife. 3) Enlist entire family to love each other. 4) Correct in the Lord's way"
** There are things we must to to make sure we are able to be with our family together. Most importantly we need to be sealed in the temple. Then, we must teach and practice love in our homes.
L. Tom Perry - July 2012, The Strength of Our Heritage
http://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/07/the-strength-of-our-heritage?lang=eng&query=finding+joy
"The prophets have warned us that the home is the place to save society.4A proper home, of course, is not created automatically when a boy and girl fall in love and marry. It takes those same virtues that were taught in pioneer homes—faith, courage, discipline, and dedication—to make a marriage successful. Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow their example and embrace their traditions. Yes, pioneer faith is needed as much in the world today as in any period of time. Once again, we need to know that heritage. We need to teach it, we need to be proud of it, and we need to preserve it. "
** It takes hard work to make a proper home for our families. Just as it was hard work that made the desert blossom as a rose, we need faith, courage, discipline and dedication in our families.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks- April 2012, Sacrifice
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/sacrifice?lang=eng&query=sacrifice
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/sacrifice?lang=eng&query=sacrifice
“Perhaps the most familiar and most important examples of unselfish service and sacrifice are performed in our families. Mothers devote themselves to the bearing and nurturing of their children. Husbands give themselves to supporting their wives and children.”
**Elder Oaks educates us on the different aspects of sacrifice and then points out where we need to focus our unselfish service and sacrifice to prepare for the destiny that the Lord provided for us.
L.Tom Perry - April 2003, The Importance of the Family
http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=3c7776e6ffe0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1
"We need to make our homes a place of refuge from the storm, which is increasing in intensity all about us. Even if the smallest openings are left unattended, negative influences can penetrate the very walls of our homes." -He then tells of how media has a negative image of families."
** I need to realize where the world is seeping into my home and prevent it from influencing my family.
Robert D. Hales - April 1999, Strengthening Families: Our Sacred Duty
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1999/04/strengthening-families-our-sacred-duty?lang=eng
"The key to strengthening our families is having the Spirit of the Lord come into our homes. The goal of our families is to be on the strait and narrow path."
** We can strenghten our family by teaching them our history, our values & how to choose right from wrong. Know what they do in their spare time, get to know their teachers and coaches, use extended family to stregthen your children.
Thomas S. Monson- April 2012, As We Close this Conferencehttp://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/as-we-close-this-conference?lang=eng&query=family+challenges
"My dear brothers and sisters, may your homes be filled with love and courtesy and with the Spirit of the Lord. Love your families. If there are disagreements or contentions among you, I urge you to settle them now. Said the Savior:
“There shall be no disputations among you. …
“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.
“[But] behold, this is not my doctrine … ; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away."
** Keep contention out of your home. Fill your home with love and courtesy. Settle your differences or contentions now.
Elder Quentin L. Cook – April 2012 In Tune with the Music of Faith
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/in-tune-with-the-music-of-faith?lang=eng
"God loves all His children. He wants all of them to return to Him. He desires everyone to be in tune with the sacred music of faith."
“Our great desire is to raise our children in truth and righteousness. One principle that will help us accomplish this is to avoid being overly judgmental about conduct that is foolish or unwise but not sinful.”
**We need to show by example that we believe and follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We need to live in harmony with what the church teaches. Don't be overly harsh about unwise, not sinful, behaviors.
Henry B. Eyring - April 2010, Help Them on Their Way Home
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/help-them-on-their-way-home?lang=eng&query=family
"Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child’s life to put feet firmly on the path home. Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.
The family has an advantage in the first eight years of a child’s life. In those protected years, because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, Satan’s use of the mists of darkness to hide the path to return home is blocked."
**Family is important because it is where a child's life starts. Satan has no power in the first 8 years. We have the chance to get their feet firmly planted on the path home.
Thomas S. Monson - October 2007, Three Goals to Guide You
"1-Study diligently. A study of the scriptures will help our testimonies and the testimonies of our family members. Our children today are growing up surrounded by voices urging them to abandon that which is right and to pursue, instead, the pleasures of the world.
2-Pray earnestly. Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray.
3-Serve earnestly. Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person’s family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good."
** As we study, pray and serve, teaching our family to do this also, we will grow stronger in the gospel and we will know we have prepared them to serve our Heavenly Father.
Henry B. Eyring - YW Broadcast 2011, A Living Testimony
"One of the doctrines of the gospel I was taught when I was young is that the greatest of all the gifts of God is eternal life. 6 I learned that part of eternal life is to live together in love in families forever.
From the first time that I heard those truths and they were confirmed to my heart, I felt obligated to make every choice I could to avoid contention and seek peace in my family and in my home.
Now, only after this life can I enjoy the fulness of that greatest of all blessings, eternal life. But amidst the challenges of this life, I have been given at least glimpses of what my family in heaven can be like."
**We live together as families in heaven. We need to seek peace in our homes. Look for glimpses of what it will be like to be in heaven with your family.
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