Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Briefly share your convictions and testimony about marriage and the family. Eternal marriage can bring joy and great blessings in this life and throughout eternity.Emphasize that eternal marriage is central to Heavenly Father’s great plan of happiness.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

For example, you could put a coin or other small item in your shoe or keep a note to yourself in your pocket.• If the Family Home Evening Resource Book (31106) is available, read “Resolving Conflicts in Marriage,” pages 240–41.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Others come as a natural part of life.Husbands and wives can work through any challenge if they view marriage as a covenant relationship.Explain that married couples will respond to challenges differently depending on how they view their marriage relationship. But when troubles come to a covenant marriage, the husband and wife work them through.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

If the Family Home Evening Resource Book (31106) is available, study “Achieving Oneness in Marriage” on pages 239–40. What are some attitudes or customs that keep husbands and wives from being equal partners in their marriage?

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Purpose of This CourseThe Marriage and Family Relations course is designed to help Church members strengthen marriages and families and find joy in their family relationships. Your primary resources for teaching the course are the scriptures, this manual, and the Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Some of the most serious problems in marriage arise when financial resources are not managed carefully and in the best interest of the family.• In what ways is a marriage strengthened when the husband and wife work together to manage their finances? Learn to distinguish between needs and wants.Have a participant read the following statement by President Tanner (page 30 in the Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide):“Overindulgence and poor money management place a heavy strain on marriage relationships.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

The more willing each spouse is to repent and become like the Savior, the more harmonious the marriage will be.• In what ways can married couples work together to increase their faith in the Savior? Emphasize that in homes where there is only one parent, fervent personal prayer brings the blessings of God into the home.ConclusionEmphasize that when husbands and wives work together to exercise faith in Jesus Christ and to pray, they find greater happiness, unity, and ability to face their challenges.As prompted by the Spirit, testify of the truths discussed during the lesson.Refer to page...

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

If marriage is a prime relationship in life, it deserves prime time! How does negative communication—such as criticism, nagging, and fault-finding—affect a marriage?

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Remind participants to bring their copies of the Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide to class. He saw that his addiction was destroying himself and his marriage and family.

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Marriage and Family Relations Instructor’s Manual

Proper intimacy in marriage is an expression of love.Explain that the proper expression of physical intimacy in marriage is approved by the Lord. Then share the following statement by President Gordon B. Hinckley, the 15th President of the Church:“We believe in chastity before marriage and total fidelity after marriage.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Many Church leaders and marriage counselors indicate that they have not seen one marriage in serious trouble where the couple was still praying together daily. We all have a long way to go to become as Christlike as our leaders have urged us to become.“Ceaseless pinpricking,” as President Spencer W. Kimball called it, can deflate almost any marriage (“Marriage and Divorce,” 1976 Devotional Speeches of the Year [1977], 148).

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

Part A: Strengthening MarriagesLesson 1: “The Family Is Central to the Creator’s Plan”Latter-day prophets proclaim the eternal importance of marriage and the family.Eternal marriage can bring joy and great blessings in this life and throughout

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

And at the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). The first marriage was performed by God in the garden when Adam and Eve were immortal.

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Marriage and Family Relations Participant’s Study Guide

It brings with it sacrifice, sharing, and a demand for great selflessness.Many of the TV screen shows and stories of fiction end with marriage: “They lived happily ever after.” We have come to realize that the mere performance of a ceremony does not bring happiness and a successful marriage. Little frictions pyramid into monumental ones.While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

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

Eternal marriage in the temple is the only marriage that will continue after death. The Blessings of Eternal Marriage President Lorenzo Snow taught: “When two Latter-day Saints are united together in marriage, promises are made to them concerning their offspring that reach from eternity to eternity.

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Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3

Review the triangle and other information on the chalkboard, and have the young men explain which marriage has the potential to bring complete happiness and why.Temple Marriages Can Become CelestialDiscussion and story• Is a temple marriage always a celestial marriage? It requires constant effort to develop a temple marriage into a celestial one.• Why do you want a celestial marriage and not just a temple marriage?

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Gospel Principles

Eternal Marriage Is Essential for Exaltation Many people in the world consider marriage to be only a social custom, a legal agreement between a man and a woman to live together. Eternal Marriage Must Be Performed by Proper Authority in the Temple An eternal marriage must be performed by one who holds the sealing power.

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Old Testament Class Member Study Guide

Abraham emphasizes the importance of marriage in the covenant through the selection of a worthy wife for Isaac.b. After two people have been married in the temple, what must they do to ensure they have a truly eternal marriage?

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Preparing for Exaltation: Teacher’s Manual

To Latter-day Saints, marriage is much more. Marriage is the most sacred relationship that can exist.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual

PurposeTo help class members understand that eternal marriage is an essential part of Heavenly Father’s plan, to help youth prepare for eternal marriage, and to encourage married couples to abide in the marriage covenant.Preparation1. Church members should begin preparing for eternal marriage when they are young.)President Spencer W. Kimball said: “Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all … decisions and has the most far-reaching effects, for it has to do not only with immediate happiness, but also with eternal joys.

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