Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you.

This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help. "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.