Category: My Life

Religion is not a thing apart from life. It is not principles and ordinances or missionary work or leadership as an end in themselves. It is manifested by the kind of people we are, by our relationship with our Heavenly Father and his Son and all of the commandments, by the measure in which we…

When we research our own lines we become interested in more than just names…. Our interests turn our hearts to our fathers – we seek to find them and to know them and to serve them. — President Boyd K. Packer, “Your Family History: Getting Started,” Ensign, August 2003, 17

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love. — Elder Henry B. Eyring, Ensign, November 1996, p. 32

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. — Elder Russell M. Nelson, “Prepare for Blessings of the Temple,” Ensign, March 2002, pp. 21-22

We go to the temple to make covenants, but we go home to keep the covenants that we have made. The home is the testing ground. The home is the place where we learn to be more Christlike. The home is the place where we learn to overcome selfishness and give ourselves in service to…

Adam and Eve could have avoided all [the wickedness of the world] if they stayed in the garden, but in pursuit of eternal progress they chose to leave for two reasons: family and knowledge. They would not have had children and they could not have become like the gods, knowing good from evil. And against…