We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.

Wonderful, glorious things are in store for you if you will only believe, obey, and endure.

Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.

From the Book of Mormon come other precious promises, including promises of peace, freedom, and blessings if we 'will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ' (Ether 2:12).

It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.

All that occurs within the walls of the temple is uplifting and enobling.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.