Family

"We will not always be safe from the adversary's influence, even within our own homes. We need to protect our nestlings."
(President Boyd K. Packer, "These Things I Know", April 2013 General Conference)

"I offer some final thoughts for those who love a family member who is not making good choices. That can challenge our patience and endurance. We need to trust in the Lord and in His timing that a positive response to our prayers and rescue efforts can occur. We do all that we can to serve, to bless, and to submissively acknowledge God’s will in all things. We exercise faith and remember that there are some things that must be left to the Lord. He invites us to set our burdens down at His feet. With faith we can know that this straying loved one is not abandoned but is in the watchcare of a loving Savior."
 (Elder Richard G. Scott, "For Peace at Home", April 2013 General Conference)

"In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives, and the top of our priorities. Families lie at the center of our Heavenly Father's plan."
(Elder L. Tom Perry, "The Importance of the Family", April 2003 General Conference)

"Latter-day Saints recognize the transcendent importance of the family and strive to live in such a way that the adversary cannot steal into our homes. We find safety and security for ourselves and our children in honoring the covenants we have made and living up to the ordinary acts of obedience required of the followers of Christ."
(President Boyd K. Packer, "These Things I Know", April 2013 General Conference)

"While our individual salvation is based on our individual obedience, it is equally important that we understand that we are each an important and integral part of a family and the highest blessings can be received only within an eternal family. When families are functioning as designed by God, the relationships found therein are the most valued of mortality. The plan of the Father is that family love and companionship will continue into the eternities. Being one in a family carries a great responsibility of caring, loving, lifting, and strengthening each member of the family so that all can righteously endure to the end in mortality and dwell together throughout eternity. It is not enough just to save ourselves. It is equally important that parents, brothers, and sisters are saved in our families. If we return home alone to our Heavenly Father, we will be asked, 'where is the rest of the family?' This is why we teach that families are forever. The eternal nature of an individual becomes the eternal nature of the family."
(Robert D. Hales, "The Eternal Family", October 1996 General Conference)

"We need to make our homes a place of refuge from the storm, which is increasing in intensity all about us. Even if the smallest openings are left unattended, negative influences can penetrate the very walls of our homes."
(Elder L. Tom Perry, "The Importance of the Family", April 2003 General Conference)

"As we give devoted service to Him, He draws closer to those we love in our families. Every time I have been called in the Lord's service to move or to leave my family, I have come to see that the Lord was blessing my wife and my children. He prepared loving servants of His and opportunities to draw my family closer to Him."
(President Henry B. Eyring, "Come unto Me". April 2013 General Conference)

"Your prayers and the prayers of those who exercise their faith will bring the Lord's servants to help your family members. They will hep them choose the way home to God, even as they are attacked by Satan and his followers, whose purpose it is to destroy families in this life and in eternity."
(President Henry B. Eyring, "Come unto Me", April 2013 General Conference)

"The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ through faith and repentance so they may experience His Redemption - peace and joy now and immortality and eternal life in the world to come."
(Elder D. Todd Christofferson, "Redemption", April 2013 General Conference)

"My mother understood the value of teaching her children about standards, values, and doctrine while they were young. [...] she recognized that parents are entrusted with the education of their children and, ultimately, patents must ensure that their children are being taught what their Heavenly Father would have them learn. My siblings and I were quizzed very carefully by our mother after we had been taught away from the home to be certain that correct lessons were reaching our ears and shaping our minds."
(Elder L. Tom Perry, "Mothers Teaching Children in the Home", April 2010 General Conference)

"Teaching in the home is becoming increasingly important in today's world, where the influence of the adversary is so widespread and he is attacking, attempting to erode and destroy the very foundation of our society, even the family. Parents must resolve that teaching in the home is a most sacred responsibility. While other institutions, such as church and school, can assist parents to 'train up a child in the way he [or she] should go' (Proverbs 22:6), ultimately this responsibility rests with parents"
(Elder L. Tom Perry, "Mothers Teaching Children in the Home", April 2010 General Conference)

"Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact."
(Elder David A. Bednar, "Watching with All Perseverance", April 2010 General Conference)

"Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home."
(President Boyd K. Packer, "These Things I Know", April 2013 General Conference)

"The main effects of these depreciating attitudes about the sanctity of marriage are the consequences to families-the strength of families is deteriorating at an alarming rate. This deterioration is causing widespread damage to society. I see direct cause and effect. As we give up commitment and fidelity to our marriage partners, we remove the glue that holds our society together."
(Elder L. Tom Perry, "Obedience to Law Is Liberty", April 2013 General Conference)

"We live in a very dangerous world that threatens those things that are most spiritual. The family, the fundamental organization in time and eternity, is under attack from forces seen and unseen. The adversary is about. His objective is to cause injury. If he can weaken and destroy the family, he will have succeeded."
(President Boyd K. Packer, "These Things I Know", April 2013 General Conference)

"Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected."
(President Boyd K. Packer, "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them", April 2012 General Conference)



Position Statement

I know that family is extremely important. I do not have children yet but I support the rest of my family in teaching there kids and I strive to support my family especially in the gospel and teaching there kids the gospel and how to live a gospel centered life. Also I try to stay close to my family and often think about the things that I have learned from them also many times I either don't have my phone with more or I turn it on silent because I don't necessarily want others to distract me with I am with my family the only time I do have the volume on is when I know that I have an important call coming that I need to talk to the person. I know that the family is important in Heavenly Fathers plan and that I can be together again with the ones who have gone before me and that I have in this life if we all do our part and strive for no one to get left behind.

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