Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.

Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but you are not lost, for Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.