This video by Robert D. Hales is very good at explaining what we know about the eternal family. I love this because you can truly feel the spirit that Elder Robert D. Hales has and he has a testimony of having an eternal family.
I am going to add my testimony to Elder Robert D. Hales that I know that we will be with our families for eternity if we are sealed in the holy temple. I am so thankful for the opportunity that I had about a month to be married and sealed in the holy temple for all time and eternity. I am so thankful for the knowledge that I have to know that I will be with my family forever.
I am so thankful for this knowledge and throughout this my testimony has grown immensely and I know that in the temple we take very important covenants that will affect us for the rest of our lives
I felt that it would be appropriate to start out with the proclamation to the family. I have never read through it and really pondered it until we were asked to for this class, there are so many new things that stuck out to me especially just being married and starting a family of my own. This document was written specially for us. We need to remember that our prophet does not just write things for fun, they will benefit us in some way.
The Home: A Refuge and Sanctuary
This is a talk that his entitled "The Home: A Refuge and Sanctuary" This is a very good talk, I feel that he tells us ways that we can make our home more spiritually uplifted and things that we need to watch for and try to avoid.
I really like this video about the proclamation and the importance of building our eternal home.
This is my family and I know that by following the words of our beloved prophet Gordon B. Hinckley I will be with my family forever! I love them and am so happy to have them in my life. I am so thankful to have the knowledge that I do so that I can be with them forever.
This is my husband and I, we are excited to start our own little family and raise our children strong in the gospel! I am so thankful that I have found the one who truly does treat me like a princess!
Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.
I personally feel that this could be many different things, depending on what you and your family like to do. For my family we like to ride horses so for us we go to the mountains and go fishing, hunting and ride horses, For some that may not be what they like to do with their time, I feel that it depends on what interests you and your family!
This is a picture of my family and I driving cows in the mountains. We all love this so much! Think we have enough cowboys and cowgirls? ;)
Our prophet Thomas S. Monson tells us how we can build eternal homes, I thought that there were very good points in this to help us decide what we feel is wholesome recreational activities.
In closing of this section, I feel that we live in a world with great opportunities to find wholesome activities it just depends what we are looking for and where we are looking. In the book it says " Wholesome recreation can serve to promote positive development in our children, strengthen our marriages, and build strong families."
My family is very big on working hard. Work is just part of our daily tasks, we live on a ranch in Southern Colorado and are expected to have our chores and projects completed daily. When I was younger I complained about having to do chores most of the time, but since I am the oldest some of the time I actually enjoyed helping my dad and mom. I was in the 4-H Club for 9 years of my life I showed steers for 4 years, pigs for 3 and horses for 9 years. I loved it but it did require very hard work. We were expected to feed, water, and exercise our animals daily. This was very hard work, but it taught me the importance of hard work. My dad always says that being a hard worker can get you farther in life than most college degrees. That does not mean that he doesn't think we should not get a college degree, he strongly wants us to, he just know that it doesn't matter how smart we are as long as we are working and studying hard we will get good grades and go far in life.
I found this video on YouTube, I feel that we do need to work hard, but we also need to have fun working hard and it will pay off!
This is also another video that I found, this is more of the spiritual side to it. I know that we are supposed to work hard to spread the gospel even if at times it is discouraging.
An eighteen-year-old boy writes, “Since I can remember, I have been taught the value of hard work and honoring all of your responsibilities and your family name. As I look back to my experience in family projects, I can see how they have shaped my character and personality by letting me make many important decisions. I have gained confidence by meeting new people and am better able to express myself. But the most important thing about family work projects is that your family comes closer together in love and respect.”
I feel that parents need to work hard to be examples to their childrens. I have found a few more videos about hard work, I know that I am sharing a lot of videos but there are many good ones on this topic.
I'm a Mormon, Cowboy at Heart, and Father of Five
(I had to add this one because I LOVE horses!!)
This is a great video dealing with this topic. I feel that there are many people in our generation that are getting lazy and feel as if they do not need to work. I feel that with work we need to be charitable and look for opportunities to serve those who are working hard.
I am going to start by telling a personal experience. I got the amazing opportunity to go through the temple about 3 weeks ago and how amazing it is there. I had always hear how the temple is amazing and I could not wait until that special day when I got to go inside. I was so happy and the feeling that I got as I walked through those doors was overwhelming happiness and excitement. I was walking into God's house to marry my best friend. What more could I ask for? I know that being worth to enter in to the temple is very important and I am so happy that i was because what a special and comforting place it is.
I know that without the gospel I would be lost and into some things that would cause great sadness in my life. I know that now as I am starting my own life and have my own house I want my house to be a house of prayer and a faithful house that when a member of my family or I am having a bad day my house can be a house of refuge and a place where we can feel safe. I want my house to have the spirit and I know that if we continue to pray and do what we are supposed to we will establish a house like that.
President Boyd K. Packer says: "It is a great challenge to raise a family in the darkening mists of our moral environment." I know that there are great challenges that await my future children, but I know that if they cleave to the gospel their challenges will be easier to deal with.
We that have been through the temple know that we make special ordinances and if those are broken we need and have to repent to return to live with our heavenly father. I learned so much as I went through the temple and I know that those things that happen in the temple are very sacred and they are very dear to my heart.
Boyd K. Packer emphasized the binding power of the sealing ordinance in a 2008 Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Now sometimes there are those that are lost. We have the promise of the prophets that they are not lost permanently, that if they are sealing in the temple ordinances and if the covenants are kept by the parents, in due time, after all the correction that's necessary to be given, that they will not be lost.
