Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Father Adam and Mother Eve taught their sons and daughters the gospel. Teaching the Gospel Strengthens FamiliesAs we teach our children the gospel through word and example, our families are spiritually strengthened and fortified.The words of living prophets are clear regarding our sacred duty to strengthen our families spiritually.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

President Harold B. Lee, the 11th President of the Church, counseled:“All the principles and ordinances of the gospel are in a sense but invitations to learning the gospel by the practice of its teachings. This resource contains principles and practical suggestions to help Church members improve as gospel teachers.

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Preparing to Enter the Holy Temple

Those who have been to the temple have been taught an ideal: Someday every living soul and every soul who has ever lived shall have the opportunity to hear the gospel and to accept or reject what the temple offers.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

The tree on the right represents a child who is learning the gospel because of parents’ words and example. Answers may include that parents can teach their children to obey the laws and ordinances of the gospel and stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all places.)• What can grandparents and other extended family members do to help parents teach gospel principles to children?

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Ideas for ApplicationAccording to your own needs and circumstances, follow one or more of these suggestions.• As a family, plan an activity in which you will give service together.• Do a household job with one of your children or with a

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.Building Fortresses of Faith in the HomeBut there is a desperate need for parents, leaders, and teachers to help our youth learn to understand, love, value, and live the standards of the gospel. It usually is not convenient to share the gospel with others.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

One way parents show love for their children is to take time to help them learn and apply gospel principles. Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught:“The gospel of work is part of ‘the fulness of the gospel.’ Though joyful, missionary work is work.

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Young Women Manual 3

Lack of knowledge about the gospel• How do you think these things can be overcome? Allow class members to share their personal experiences with sharing the gospel.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

I believe that no other man who ever walked the face of the earth was a greater converter of souls to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He always filled my being and lifted me up as I listened to him proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor

During this same period of his life he received a strong impression that God had called him to one day preach the gospel in the United States of America.His Search for the Kingdom of GodIn 1830 John Taylor’s parents and other family members emigrated to Toronto, Canada, leaving him behind in England to sell the family farm and settle other family business. His duties required a significant amount of travel, but he tirelessly preached the gospel and oversaw many spiritual and temporal matters relating to the Church there.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

No man or woman who seeks God’s Spirit and follows its promptings can fail. 8The disposition of too many men is to practice all those things that are gratifying to the appetites and to the passions; but the requirements of the gospel are such that we are not permitted to gratify our appetites; that it is necessary for us to be self-sacrificing, to overcome and subdue these appetites. But it seems that in too many cases, in a very short time after their return home, they lose their interest and settle down, confining their labors to their own immediate affairs.It is clearly necessary for you and me, if we expect to reap the reward of faithful service, to labor diligently whether at home or abroad proclaiming the principles of the Gospel.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith

You can only correct your children by love, in kindness, by love unfeigned, by persuasion, and reason. 10Fathers, if you wish your children to be taught in the principles of the gospel, if you wish them to love the truth and understand it, if you wish them to be obedient to and united with you, love them! and prove to them that you do love them by your every word or act to them.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith

It is because the people of the world have not the gospel. That is the principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

No individual singer, or organization of singers, in the Church, should ever render a selection unless the words are in full harmony with the truths of the gospel, and can be given from the heart of the singer. The leader of the mob, Joseph Jarvis, afterwards joined the Church, and he stated to Elder Kimball that the sentiments of the hymn, and the inspiration attending the singing, as above related, converted him to the Gospel.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

I can’t help fearing that her life is not going to be spared.” 2Despite the realization of such fears, President Grant found hope and peace as he relied on the truths of the gospel. There is something about the Gospel that causes men and women to acknowledge God in life and death, in joy and sorrow, in prosperity and in adversity.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

We reap many blessings when we diligently attend to personal and family prayers.From the Life of Heber J. GrantAs a young boy, Heber J. Grant frequented President Brigham Young’s home. If Heber happened to be there at prayer time, he was invited to

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young

You can say that the Lord and his Gospel are not worthy of notice, or you can bow to them (DBY, 153). Why is faith in Jesus Christ the first principle of the gospel?

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

We have a great responsibility to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are anxious that the gospel should go to every honest soul.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

It is in keeping with the teachings of our Savior to let our light so shine, that men, seeing our good works, will glorify God and be led to embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”Continuing with the letter, Elder Grant read: “ ‘This it is that inspires respect. We have received a testimony of the gospel, and we do know that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ, that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young

The day will come when the Gospel will be presented to the kings and queens and great ones of the earth; but it will be presented with a different influence from that with which it has been presented to the poor, but it will be the same Gospel. Truth is my text, the Gospel of salvation my subject, and the world my circuit (DBY, 322).

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