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The Savior told us, "Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed." In our day, the Church urges us to have family prayer every night and every morning. Family prayer is a powerful and sustaining influence. During the dark days World War II, a 500-pound bomb fell outside the little home of Brother Patey, a young father in Liverpool, England, but the bomb did not go off. His wife had died, so he was rearing five children alone. He gathered them together at this very anxious time for family prayer. They "all prayed earnestly and when they had finished praying, the children said: 'Daddy, we will be all right. We will be all right in our home tonight.' "And so they went to bed, imagine, with that terrific bomb lying just outside the door half submerged in the ground. If it had gone off it would have destroyed probably forty or fifty houses and killed two or three hundred people. "The next morning the whole neighborhood was removed for forty-eight hours and the bomb was finally taken away. "On the way back Brother Patey asked the foreman of the A.R.P. Squad: 'Well, what did you find?' "Mr. Patey, we got at the bomb outside of your door and found it ready to explode at any moment. There was nothing wrong with it. We were puzzled why it did not go off." Marvelous things happen when families pray together.

Pray in Your Families

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(3 Nephi 18:13–25) President James E. Faust talks about the importance of praying in your families.
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