Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds. The scriptures speak of 'the shield of faith wherewith,' the Lord said, 'ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked' (D&C 27:17). This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.