We had mission workshop and the workshop President Sperry gave us was the workshop he gives the missionaries when they are going home. Since he and Sister Sperry are going home he gave it to all of us. It is about families and finding are eternal companion! Needless to say we were all a bit trunky! But we quickly got over it.
So he first started talking about the creation and how the earth was truly made for us to come and create families. Then we talked a bit about how important family is. We can see how important family is because of the greatness of Satan's fight against it. Some ideas given were same sex marriage, the degradation of the importance of children, the attitude of spouses to one another, selfishness, and the pleasures of the world and then the kicker....hanging out! You know, having personally gone through the affects of Satan's temptations I can say just how powerful and harsh they are, and they aren't going to stop!
President Hinckley once said that Satan's attack is now on the family. Why? Because besides Christ, family is central to his plan. We see many ways Satan is attacking the family, but as eternal law requires there is equal and greater tools and happiness available to families, like prayer, family home evening, making and keeping covenants, being honest, setting family goals, clinging (not just holding) onto your spouse, and allowing Heavenly Father into your life daily!
We examined the examples of Nephi and his family. They went back to Jerusalem to get wives ( I Nephi 7:1) and they even had weddings. Then the big day came when Nephi was done building the ship and they set sail to the promised land. As the scriptures tell in I Nephi 18:9 Laman and Lemuel and theiir wives began to make themselves merry and become exceedingly rude! They even bound up Nephi to eventually kill him. This is when we see the faith and love of his sweet wife in verse 19 it says, that not even the tears and prayers of his wife and children could soften their hearts. Nephi was large in stature, obviously a faithful and righteous man......What kind of person was his wife? Did she honor the priesthood? It seems to be this way. Nephi got the kind of wife that was comparative to himself. Laman and Lemuel as well.
So what kind of person do you want to marry?
Or what if you are already married, what kind of relationship do you want to have?
I know I am not married yet but I have seen lots of examples of how a good relationship works and how a not so good one works and the good and especially best relationships arent easy and they include 3 people ALWAYS!! The husband, the wife, and Heavenly 'Father. We must always rely on him to lead and guide us.
I am so grateful for my family. I know I knew them before we came to this earth and I pray everynight that we may each become worthy to continue our journey together as an eternal family. It is absoultely possible. We were once broken but by carefullly applying the teachings of Jesus Christ and using the atonement we have found happiness and hope for a brighter future. The family truly is central to this plan and there is a way to be sure of an eternal companion and to know how to raise failies in this ever changing and dangerous world. But as with all the commandements of God, we must first exercise faith!
I don't know Heavenly Fathers plan for me after the mission, but I'm excited to find out!
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