Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be different. Our recreation should be different. Our concern for family will be different. As we establish this distinctiveness firmly in our life's pattern, the blessings of heaven await to assist us.

Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.