VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE Nurturing Families Together
Prayerfully study this material
and seek to know what to share. How will understanding “The Family: A
Proclamation to the World” increase your faith in God and bless those you watch
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A “husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children.”1 “The home is to beGod’s laboratory of love and service,” said President Russell M.Nelson, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
“Our Heavenly Father wants husbands and wives to be faithful toeach other and to esteem and treat their children as an heritagefrom the Lord.”2
In the Book of Mormon, Jacob said that the love that husbandshad for their wives, the love that wives had for their husbands,and the love that both had for their children was among the
One of the best ways to invite love and harmony into our homesis by speaking kindly to our family members. Speaking kindlybrings the Holy Ghost. Sister Linda K. Burton, Relief Society
general president, asked us to consider: “How often do weintentionally ‘speak kind words to each other’?”3
Additional Scriptures Romans 12:10; Mosiah 4:15; Doctrine and Covenants 25:5
Living Stories Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the TwelveApostles shared a childhood experience that impressed uponhim the importance of a loving family. When he and his brotherswere boys,
their mother had radical cancer surgery that made itvery painful for her to use her right arm. With a family of boys,there was a lot of ironing, but as his mother ironed, she often
stopped and went into the bedroom to cry until the pain subsided. When Elder Christofferson’s father realized what was happening,he secretly went without lunches for almost a year to save enough money to buy a machine that made ironing easier. Out of his love for his wife, he set an example of nurturing within families for his boys. Of this tender interaction, Elder Christofferson said, “I was not aware of my father’s sacrifice andact of love for my mother at the time, but now that I know, I sayto myself, ‘There is a man.’”4
Consider This
How does loving and caring for one another invite the Spirit intoour homes?
“Producing Eternal
Thoughts”
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8/1/16
Learning to be in
tune with others
thinking of the
eternal not just here
what would Father do
if he were here
and all that can make
us eternal;
Watching over sisters
and brothers
making thus the veil
more sheer
producing eternal
thoughts clear
learning that which
is eternal!
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