"Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and emp...

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
~ Ezra Taft Benson ~












When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the m...
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