"I know that our Heavenly Father lives. I know that His Son, Jesus Christ, atoned for our sins and those of everyone we will ever meet. He was resurrected. He lives. He leads His Church. He holds the keys of the priesthood. Through inspiration to those who hold keys in the Church, He calls every president of every priesthood quorum. I testify that the priesthood was restored with all its keys to Joseph Smith. And I bear solemn witness that those keys have been passed to the present day to the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who is the president of the priesthood in all the earth."
Topic: priesthood, keys, inspiration
Reference: (Henry B. Eyring, "A Priesthood Quorum," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 45)
Family has always been a very important part of my heritage, and family will always continue to be very
important to me I believe. One of the reasons that family is so important to me is because I value my
coexistence, but probably the most influential reason that family is important to me is my religious
belief that 1) the family is ordained of God, and 2) the family is the fundamental unit of society. I also
strongly believe that
"the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations
the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets."
In my family I do not only include my immediate family, my immediate relatives, and the family I married into,
but I also include my best friends as family members. They are invited to everything that we do as family.
Friends are a very integral part of this life also I believe, and they are very important to our relationship
with others. Also friends are often able to give less biased more sound advice than are close relatives or in-
laws. Below I have attempted to somewhat construct a family tree to illistrate my relationships in my family.
