Month: December 2017

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treacherous mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father. — President Thomas S. Monson, “Obedience Brings Blessings,” General Conference, April 2013

Sisters, we are all in this together. We need each other. Oh, how we need each other. Those of us who are old need you who are young. And, hopefully, you who are young need some of us who are old. It is a sociological fact that women need women. We need deep satisfying and…

Be faithful to the covenants and ordinances of the gospel. Qualify for those sacred ordinances step by step. Honor the covenants connected with them, and you will be happy. Then, your lives will be in order. If we do these things, we can receive the Lord’s promise: “They shall be my people, and I will…

An ordinance is an earthly symbol of a spiritual reality. It is an act of symbolizing a covenant of agreement with the Lord. It is an act in anticipation of a blessing from heaven. It is an act that connects heaven and earth, the spiritual and the temporal. — Elder John A. Widtsoe