Wilma M. Rich and Jackie Rich Howa

I have since learned these gifts are not uncommon to Church members who experience the death of a loved one. Accepting this blessing does not show disloyalty to our loved ones who have passed on but possibly comforts them.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > October 2000

You must take something, or you can never endure the severe operation to which you must be subjected.’ “ ‘No,’ answered the boy, ‘I will not touch one particle of liquor, nor will I be tied down, but I will tell you what I will do. The surgeons began operating by boring into the bone of his leg, first on one side of the affected part, then on the other side, after which they broke it loose with a pair of forceps or pincers.

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Merrill J. Bateman

In reflecting on the accident, I have thought about the lessons taught by death—particularly the death of a loved one. Another lesson taught by death concerns the importance of eternal families.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 1995

Kersten Campbell

But surviving spouses from around the world bear witness that there is life after the death of a loved one and that a loving Father in Heaven will help provide the way to move forward. That is why when the missionaries knocked on her door soon after her husband’s death and taught her about eternal families, she believed them.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > January 2010

Merrill J. Bateman

In reflecting on the accident, I have thought about the lessons taught by death—particularly the death of a loved one. Another lesson taught by death concerns the importance of eternal families.

Gospel Library > Magazines > New Era > April 1996

Dallin H. Oaks

Exaltation is an eternal family experience, and it is our mortal family experiences that are best suited to prepare us for it. Others suffer the death of a loved one or the loss or postponement of a righteous goal like marriage or childbearing.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > November 2000

Dallin H. Oaks

Exaltation is an eternal family experience, and it is our mortal family experiences that are best suited to prepare us for it. Others suffer the death of a loved one or the loss or postponement of a righteous goal like marriage or childbearing.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > January 2001

Merrill J. Bateman

In reflecting on the accident, I have thought about the lessons taught by death—particularly the death of a loved one. Another lesson taught by death concerns the importance of eternal families.

Gospel Library > Magazines > New Era > April 2003

Dallin H. Oaks

Dallin H. Oaks Liahona July 2002 Some years ago I enjoyed a newspaper cartoon that showed a clergyman in conversation with a hippie-dressed couple astride a motorcycle. “We are church goers,” one was saying to the clergyman. “We’ve been going for years … we just haven’t got there yet.” 1 Many of our extended family and friends haven’t yet gotten to church either. As I experienced the death of loved ones, including my father, my mother, and my wife, the comforting revelations of the Holy Ghost gave me the strength to carry on.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > July 2002

Kevin Fitzwater

Returning from the hospital, I gathered the children around, and we talked of eternal families, of a loving Father in Heaven, and of the certainty of resurrection and eternal life. People react individually to the death of a loved one.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > June 1992

Gordon B. Hinckley

It was only a dance ballad, but it was a question that has been asked through the centuries by men and women who loved one another and looked beyond today into the future of eternity. If the Lord will give me strength, I can work and earn enough for another car and furniture and dishes, but if I should lose these my loved ones, I would be poor indeed in both life and in eternity.’ ” Marry Right and Live Right How shortsighted so many of us are, how prone to look only at today without thought for the morrow.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > July 2003

Dallin H. Oaks

Dallin H. Oaks Ensign May 2002 Some years ago I enjoyed a newspaper cartoon that showed a clergyman in conversation with a hippie-dressed couple astride a motorcycle. “We are church goers,” one was saying to the clergyman. “We’ve been going for years … we just haven’t got there yet.” 1 Many of our extended family and friends haven’t yet gotten to church either. As I experienced the death of loved ones, including my father, my mother, and my wife, the comforting revelations of the Holy Ghost gave me the strength to carry on.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 2002

Bonnie D. Parkin

We felt the love of the Lord in a significant way as opportunities for growth presented themselves.”2 What would a “blessing basket” add to your family? As you recall, only one of the cleansed lepers returned to express his appreciation.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 2007

Bonnie D. Parkin

We felt the love of the Lord in a significant way as opportunities for growth presented themselves.”2 What would a “blessing basket” add to your family? As you recall, only one of the cleansed lepers returned to express his appreciation.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > May 2007

Just as we grieve at the death of a loved one, we will grieve at the death of an important relationship. When a loved one dies, we have the hope that our family ties will continue beyond the grave.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > February 2007

Gordon B. Hinckley

Has a child ever been buried by parents who did not long for the assurance that their loved one would again be theirs in a world to come? Can anyone believing in eternal life doubt that the God of heaven would grant his sons and daughters that most precious attribute of life, the love that finds its most meaningful expression in family relationships?

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > June 1992

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith

A Aaronic Priesthood administers in outward ordinances, 109 holders must be called of God, 110 John the Baptist held, 84–85 made without an oath, 109 magnifying offices in, 111–12 quorums established, 13 restoration of, xv, 7–8, 78–80, 85, 89

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Joy F. Evans

All families sometime experience the death of a loved one. This was a teaching time for the children as we talked about trusting Heavenly Father even when our prayers were answered differently from how we had hoped, and about personal responsibility to live worthily to become an eternal family and to have each person with us.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > February 1999

Gordon B. Hinckley

Has a child ever been buried by parents who did not long for the assurance that their loved one would again be theirs in a world to come? Can anyone believing in eternal life doubt that the God of heaven would grant his sons and daughters that most precious attribute of life, the love that finds its most meaningful expression in family relationships?

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > October 1980

Gordon B. Hinckley

It was only a dance ballad, but it was a question that has been asked through the centuries by men and women who loved one another and looked beyond today into the future of eternity. If the Lord will give me strength, I can work and earn enough for another car and furniture and dishes, but if I should lose these my loved ones, I would be poor indeed in both life and in eternity.’ ” Marry Right and Live Right How shortsighted so many of us are, how prone to look only at today without thought for the morrow.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > July 2003