Recent Advice from
the General Authorities:
“Our most important and powerful assignments
are in the family.”[1]
“If children are strengthened with faith and
testimony they will be less likely to need rescued as teenagers. A strong
spiritual foundation can make the difference for a lifetime.”[2]
“You
can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as you are guided and corrected by the
Spirit of God.”[3]
“The best counsel for us to give young people
is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and
corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise,
and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
When they share with us what they are doing and feeling, we must ourselves have
qualified for the Spirit. Then they will feel in our praise and our smiles the
approval of God. And should we feel the need to give corrective counsel, they
will feel our love and the love of God in it, not rebuke and rejection, which
can permit Satan to lead them further away.
“The example they
most need from us is to do what they must do. We need to pray for the gifts of
the Spirit. We need to ponder in the scriptures and in the words of living
prophets. We need to make plans which are not only wishes but covenants. And
then we need to keep our promises to the Lord. And we need to lift others by
sharing with them the blessings of the Atonement which have come in our lives.
“And we need to
exemplify in our own lives the steady and prolonged faithfulness that the Lord
expects of them. As we do, we will help them feel from the Spirit an assurance
that if they will persist, they will hear the words from a loving Savior and
Heavenly Father: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been
faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou
into the joy of thy lord.”4 And we who help
them along the way will hear those words with joy.”[4]
“Home
is the most important place to prepare the youth of today to lead the families
and the Church of tomorrow. It rests upon each one of us as mothers and fathers
to do all we can to prepare our youth to be faithful, righteous men and women.
It is in the home where we must teach the gospel by precept and by example.”[5]
“As
mothers in Israel, you are your daughters’ first line of defense against the
wiles of the world.”[6]
“All
youth will be more likely to make and keep covenants if they learn how to
recognize the presence and the voice of the Spirit… keeping covenants is the
safest road to eternal happiness.”[7]
“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 and important 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. According to the great plan
of happiness, it is parents who are entrusted with the care and development of
our Heavenly Father’s children.”[8]
“The
influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the
most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world.”[9]
“Teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in the
home adds another layer of insulation to protect our children from worldly
influences.”[10]
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