Families

Something that I've come to understand recently is that life is all about relationships, the people that we interact with on a day-to-day basis make up who we become. Why we love certain people, how we love certain people, and what we do to show them that we love them, change us. The most important relationships that we will ever have are the relationships that we have with our families. We experience more joy, more happiness, more peace and consolation through our families than anything else; we also experience more sorrow, pain, trials, afflictions and heartache through our families than anything else. We are with each other through it all, good and bad, successes and failures, triumphs and sufferings; we're there, helping each other up when we fall, rooting for one another and cheering one another on, celebrating successes and consoling defeats. Family is always there, Heavenly Father knows that and the whole purpose of everything He teaches us and everything He does is to help our families progress. His first principals are faith in Jesus Christ and Repentance.



Having faith in Jesus Christ means that we trust in Him and follow His teachings, doing that makes us want to be better people and be like Him. repentance is change, changing from doing what we want, to doing what He wants us to do. these principals bless family life more than any other ideas or philosophies that exist. when a father, or a mother, or a child, or any member of a family do all that they can to repent and become more like the Savior, they naturally care more about others than they do themselves. family life is all about putting our loved ones first, and love takes a lot of time and effort. the effort required is that repentance, that change, giving up desires or actions that hurt or draw us away from one another and replacing them with activities that build our relationships and love for each other. this is how the Gospel of Jesus Christ blesses families, by increasing our love and our desires to share that love. I testify of the love that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father have for each of us, and I testify of the power that They have to help our families become so much more.