A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth.

The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.