Being part of a family is a great blessing. Your family can provide you with companionship and happiness, help you learn correct principles in a loving atmosphere, a Strong families require effort. Your family will be blessed as you do your part to strengthen it. Be cheerful, helpful, and considerate of family members. Many problems in the home come from family members speaking and acting selfishly or unkindly. Seek to be a peacemaker rather than to tease, fight, and quarrel. Show love for your family members each day. Share your testimony with your family through words and actions. Your righteous example can make a difference in strengthening your family and help you prepare for eternal life. Honor your parents by showing love and respect for them. Obey them as they lead you in righteousness. Willingly help in your home. Participate in wholesome family activities and traditions. Join your family in family prayer, family scripture study, and family home evenings. Keeping these commandments strengthens and unifies families. If your family does not do these things together, pray and study the scriptures yourself. Your example may encourage your family members to join you. Strengthen your relationships with your brothers and sisters. They can become your closest friends. Support them in their interests, and help them with challenges they may be facing. God desires that all of His children come into the world as part of an eternal family with a mother and father who love and care for each other and for their children. If this is not your experience, be patient and continue to live righteously. Look for worthy role models. Prepare now to fulfill your divine roles as a husband or wife and as a parent. Commit to marry in the temple and establish your own eternal family.
"for the strength of YOUth"
Family is a great blessing in our lives. Families provide a way for us to grow and learn in a safe environment. I am so grateful to my family for the strength and encouragement that they give me. Not only am I grateful to my immediate family but my ward and friends are part of my family as well. I would not be here without all of the people in my life. Thank you! Each of you have blessed me in ways that you will never understand. I have watched you and learned from you and have felt safe with you. You truly are my family. The blessing of families was given to us by God so that we can have joy. Relationships are built for a reason, they form bonds that can never be broken. I love each of you, and I am so grateful for your examples. I want to thank my dad for all that he does to support me, I see your love. No family is perfect but as we strive to keep our homes a safe place where the gospel is taught we will all be protected that much more from the influence of the world. As a missionary I see families everyday that fall apart because of harsh words and actions towards one another. If this is you, stop it. Our families are all that we have that can last through eternity. Treasure those relationships. I thanks all of you for your love and support.
<3 Sister Black
"for the strength of YOUth"
Family is a great blessing in our lives. Families provide a way for us to grow and learn in a safe environment. I am so grateful to my family for the strength and encouragement that they give me. Not only am I grateful to my immediate family but my ward and friends are part of my family as well. I would not be here without all of the people in my life. Thank you! Each of you have blessed me in ways that you will never understand. I have watched you and learned from you and have felt safe with you. You truly are my family. The blessing of families was given to us by God so that we can have joy. Relationships are built for a reason, they form bonds that can never be broken. I love each of you, and I am so grateful for your examples. I want to thank my dad for all that he does to support me, I see your love. No family is perfect but as we strive to keep our homes a safe place where the gospel is taught we will all be protected that much more from the influence of the world. As a missionary I see families everyday that fall apart because of harsh words and actions towards one another. If this is you, stop it. Our families are all that we have that can last through eternity. Treasure those relationships. I thanks all of you for your love and support.
<3 Sister Black