Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. 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.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

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.

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).