We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.

I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we dwell upon our blessings rather than our disappointments. No matter how pessimistic one's view may become of the times and the seasons, we can always fall back on special friendship, on faithful, personal love, and on simple, true dealings in our own personal lives.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.