For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, … they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.

Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

Physical conditioning from regular exercise is important. And we can do so much more to keep our bodies strong.