“As you center your home on the Savior, it will naturally become a refuge not only to your own family but also to friends who live in more difficult circumstances.”—Elder Richard G. Scott, “For Peace at Home”

Center Your Home on the Savior

“Family commitments and expectations should be at the top of our priorities to protect our divine destiny.”—Elder Quentin L. Cook, “Roots and Branches”

Family Commitments

“Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world.”—Elder L. Tom Perry, “Mothers Teaching Children in the Home” Do Not Copy.

Family Time

“There is no shame in a couple having to scrimp and save. It is generally during these challenging times that you will grow closer together as you learn to sacrifice and to make difficult decisions.”—President Thomas S. Monson, “Priesthood Power” Do Not Copy.

Grow Closer

“Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.”—“The Family: A Proclamation to the World” Do Not Copy.

Happiness in Family Life

“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect.” —President Thomas S. Monson, “Heavenly Homes—Forever Families”

Home Is Love, Sacrifice, and Respect

“Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.” —Elder Marvin J. Ashton, “A Yearning for Home” Do Not Copy.

Home Should Be an Anchor

“The Savior focuses on the individual and the family.”—Elder Hugo E. Martinez, “Our Personal Ministries.” God wants all of His children back, and He needs your help. Learn how you can be a savior on Mount Zion for your ancestors at familysearch.org/findnames. Do Not Copy.

Individuals and Families

Making dinner more fun: “Have a formal dinner party in the middle of the week. Have all the boys, including dad, become waiters for an evening. As a family, set some basic guidelines for table manners, eating schedules, snack times, and cleanup. Use shopping time as a one-to-one time with your children.”—Family Home Evening Resource Book, “Making Work Fun”

Making Dinner More Fun

“Dear sisters, we rely on the moral force you bring to the world, to marriage, to family, to the Church.”—Elder D. Todd Christofferson, “The Moral Force of Women”

Moral Force

“God has devised means to save each of His children. For many, that involves being placed with a brother or a sister or a grandparent who loves them no matter what they do.”—President Henry B. Eyring, “To My Grandchildren”

No Matter What

“If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.”—Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “Because She Is a Mother”

Parenting

“The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.”—Elder Dallin H. Oaks, “The Great Plan of Happiness” Created by Jenae Nelson.

Posterity

“Jesus Christ gave His life as a vicarious atonement. He resolved the ultimate question raised by Job. He overcame death for all mankind, which we could not do for ourselves. We can, however, perform vicarious ordinances and truly become saviors on Mount Zion for our own families in order that we, with them, might be exalted as well as saved.”—Elder Quentin L. Cook, “Roots and Branches.” To find family names that need temple ordinances, visit familysearch.org/findnames.

Saviors on Mount Zion

“Everyday activities in our homes may be simple but because they are simple, frequent, and repeated, they offer important opportunities to build individuals and families.”—Shirley R. Klein, “Three Tools to Build a Sacred Home”

Simple Activities

Simple ways to make work fun: “Have your children pretend to be puppets, robots, or soldiers. Wind them up and let them do their work. Scrub to music, especially fast, rousing music. Hold family ‘panic-pickup-time.’ Set your timer and see how many things can be picked up and put away in ten minutes. Play ‘Beat the Clock.’ Time a job to see how much time it normally takes to complete it. Then set your timer and race against the clock.”—Family Home Evening Resource Book, “Making Work Fun”

Simple Ways to Make Work Fun

10 tips for parents of young adults: “1. Find out what your children want and love. 2. Prayerfully study D&C 121:34–46. 3. Invest in relationships with many young adults. 4. Point out their gifts. 5. Trust them with their decisions. 6. Praise them for their efforts. 7. Seek for inspiration. 8. Talk about money. 9. Be humble. 10. Measure true success.”—Wendy Ulrich, “Ten Tips for Parents of Young Adults”

Ten Tips for Parents of Young Adults

“The most important of the Lord’s work that you fathers will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.”—President Harold B. Lee, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee (2000), 134

The Lord’s Work

“The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave.”—“The Family: A Proclamation to the World”

The Plan of Happiness

"“These are grand principles. They are worth every sacrifice.”—Wilford Woodruff In his talk “Roots and Branches,” Elder Quentin L. Cook quoted President Wilford Woodruff, who said: “There is hardly any principle the Lord has revealed that I have rejoiced more in than in the redemption of our dead; that we will have our fathers, our mothers, our wives and our children with us in the family organization, in the morning of the first resurrection and in the Celestial Kingdom. These are grand principles. They are worth every sacrifice.”"  

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