This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'

As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.