Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Harmony, happiness, peace, and love in the home can help give children the required inner strength to cope with life’s challenges. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your 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 both of these suggestions.• In the proclamation on the family, we are counseled that “fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners”

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

PurposeTo help participants better understand the principle of love and to encourage those who are married to nurture the love in their marriages.Preparation1. And so love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness” (“Oneness in Marriage,” Ensign, Mar. 1977, 5).

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

He said simply, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church” (Ephesians 5:25). This kind of love can be shown for your wives in so many ways.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Consider ways these characteristics can help husbands and wives nurture their love and friendship.• With your spouse, make a plan to spend time alone together each week.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Parents will counsel their children in greater love and wisdom. Love at home and obedience to parents will increase.

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Primary 1: I Am a Child of God

These things remind us of their love for us.• What things remind you of Heavenly Father’s and Jesus’ love for you? As each child comes up and looks in the mirror, say, “This is (child’s name), and Heavenly Father and Jesus love (child’s name) very much.”TestimonyBear your testimony that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ live and that they love each of us.

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The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part A

We Are Commanded to Love Just a few hours before His crucifixion, the Savior taught His disciples, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” (John 13:34). Christlike Service Builds Love President Harold B. Lee said that one night he had what “must have been a vision,” in which he was told: “ ‘If you want to love God, you have to learn to love and serve the people.

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Young Women Manual 2

How can you show love to him?3. How can you show love to him?4.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor

And then treat everybody right. 6We ought to be full of charity, of brotherly kindness and affection and love one towards another and love towards all men. I wish that we could feel that brotherly love continued, and that it was spreading and increasing, flowing, from the fountain of life—from God, from heart to heart as oil is poured from vessel to vessel, that harmony, sympathy, kindness and love might be universal among us.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

During these outings he often extended his love to others by stopping to visit hospitals or people’s homes. 4In a tribute to President Grant, Elder John A. Widtsoe of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote: “His greatest love has always been humanity. This love has manifested itself, not merely in a general concern for all mankind, but in a care for individuals.

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Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part A

How can showing love and consideration for our wives help us establish homes of peace and love? How can it increase love in their marriage?

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Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part B

Well, Dad, I’m telling you now: I love you.’ “For one electrifying moment the father and son embraced each other as the pent-up love and appreciation of years came flooding out” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1969, 22–23; or Improvement Era, June 1969, 52–53). Why should we tell family members we love them?

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 2

What is the relationship between love and service? How has service increased your love for others?

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The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

ChildrenLearning to love children is important for each of us in preparing for an eternal home. His counsel was simple, but far-reaching when he said:“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” (John 13:34).

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New Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

What did he tell them to do to show their love for him? What does this tell us about the Savior’s love for us?

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New Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

How do we sometimes show love for the world rather than love for God? See 1 John 2:9, 11; 3:14–15, 17; 4:20.) Why is our love for others a measure of our love of God?

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

PurposeTo help class members understand that God gives us commandments because of his love for us and that we should obey the commandments because of our love for him.Preparation1. They love Heavenly Father and Jesus.Have class members read and mark John 14:15.• Why do you think love for Heavenly Father and Jesus is such an important reason for obeying the commandments?

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The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

One of President Smith’s greatest attributes was the love he showed for the entire human family. Class members might be encouraged to make a similar set of goals for themselves.George Albert Smith Exemplified the Principle of Love in Word and DeedTell the class members that many stories are told of President Smith’s love and concern for others.

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

I enjoyed the association with and loved my three brothers and was most happy and comfortable being with my parents.“When I arrived in Salt Lake City I immediately set about to find work. Emphasize that this plan is given because of Heavenly Father’s great love for us.Knowing the Plan Helps Us Make Wise DecisionsActivityGive each class member or pair of class members a pen or pencil and a copy of the “Mortality Maze” (or have all class members work together on a large copy of the maze).

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