We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.

We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.

In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.

Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

When I was 66, my wife June died of cancer. Two years later--a year and a half ago--I married Kristen McMain, the eternal companion who now stands at my side.

We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.