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1. What should come first and foremost in importance

to our lives here on earth?

2. How can we make God number one in our lives?

3. How can we develope a personal relationship with God?

4. What goals can we set as individuals and a family to help us live in accordance with Gods will?

5. What should come second in our lives?

6. How can we be closer as a family?

7. How can all of us help run a more functional home?

8. How can we have fun together as a family?

9. How can we be of more support to each other?

10. What should come third in our lives?

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Suggested answers:

1. What should come first and foremost in importance to our lives here on earth?

Our personal relationship with Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost.

MATTHEW 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt alove the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt alove thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law• and the prophets.

"Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened." (President James E. Faust )

"The most important thing every one of us can do is to examine our own commitment and devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ."There is no time for spiritual apathy. While the strides the church has made are enormous, there is still an overwhelming task before Latter-day Saints: to minister to spirits on both sides of the veil. "True discipleship, therefore, precludes any complacency." Each member of the church will have to know individually that Jesus is the Christ." (Elder M. Russell Ballard )

"Elder Holland urges members never to forget Lord"

2. How can we make God number one in our lives?

By having a personal relationship with him.

3. How can we develop a personal relationship with God?

By doing the things he has asked of us, by repenting and making ourselves worthy to be in his presence, and by, strengthening your faith through prayer and scripture reading, study, and by partaking of sacred ordinances.

"Knowing [Him] requires personal obedience, prayer, a closeness to the spirit and revelation".(Elder Harold G. Hillam)
"Before the Savior's crucifixion and resurrection, he promised his disciples God would send "the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost." The Holy Ghost empowered Jesus' apostles, and the church flourished. ." The influence of the Holy Ghost can be smothered through transgression and neglect. The adversary "can take over our thoughts and lead us to mischief. But each of us has agency; ever and always light presides over darkness." Always nearby are leaders and teachers. "We can learn to sort out the promptings from the temptations and follow the inspiration of the Holy Ghost."(President Boyd K. Packer)
"God has promised that the Holy Ghost will testify to each of us that sacred truths have been restored and that Joseph Smith was called by God to be a special witness of Christ and his gospel." It is the power of the spirit that convinces people who are investigating the church to pray about its message. Promptings of the Holy Ghost also help guide members to those who seek the truth. "Before I was a member of this church, I asked God, the Eternal Father, in fervent prayer about the truths of the Restoration. I know today, even as I knew that day, that hour, that moment 37 years ago by the power of the Holy Ghost, that the principles and doctrines of the Restoration of the gospel are true." (Elder Gary J. Coleman)
"As we seek and pray in faith,then the Lord will guide us. The elect hear the voice of the Lord, the Lord knows them and they will not harden their hearts." (Elder Kikuchi)
"If you will ask God if these are true, having faith in Jesus Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you by the power of the Holy Ghost," (Elder John B. Dickson Quoting the Book of Mormon )
"We are to be creators in our own right -- builders of an individual faith in God, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and faith in his Church,"(Elder Nelson)
Elder Wirthlin made it clear that to receive the Lord's help, we must be ready to accept it.
Brothers and sisters, we are children of God," "Shouldn't we be about our Father's business?
"'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. When [you] see through the eyes of faith ...confidence replaces fear because [you] turn to God, " (Elder Eyring)

4. What goals can we set as individuals and a family to help us live in accordance with Gods will?

Start with areas that your family has trouble...(pay a full tithing, church attendance, set aside times for family prayer and study, and personal times for individual prayer and scripure study, to make service projects, set goals for keeping healthy, keeping moral, etc.)

5. What should come second in our lives?


Our Family
"Families are to be sealed together for all eternity," Nelson said. "A welding link is to be forged between the fathers and the children. In our time, a whole, complete and perfect union of all dispensations, keys and powers are to be welded together." Nelson also told members to learn to understand their significant responsibilities. "Both the creations of God and the creations of man teach us the importance of each component," said Nelson. "So it is with each son or daughter of God."

6. How can we be closer as a family?

By doing things together as a family . By supporting each other in our goals and decisions. By working on our weaknesses together. By having family home evenings. By setting family goals etc..

7. How can all of us help run a more functional home?

Have a working chore schedule that the whole family is involved in for daily as well as weekly chores. Have a working schedule for meals, scripture study and prayers. and all family activities. Give incentives.

8. How can we have fun together as a family?

Schedule in weekly or monthly family outings. Rotate
taking turns in choosing the activity.

9. How can we be of more support to each other?

By helping each individual accomplish his goals, by listening better, by love, by establishing eternal values, and standards, together. And also by allowing for mistakes and natural consiquences, and by forgiving one another tresspasses against each other.

We are to love and care for one another." (Elder Nelson)
"The world needs fathers who are committed to fatherhood. fathers should do whatever it takes to be good, responsible fathers. He said if a good example has not been set for them, fathers should resolve to establish themselves as anchors for all those who come after them. "If all is not perfect in your home, then let it begin with you," he said. The gospel is designed to teach us what to do as fathers and mothers and it would seem that when families are intact, we may very well do good things because a Father showed the way. Elder Dunn said he first understood how important he was to his father when he heard him pray for his family in prayer. He said many young people, away from home for the first time, have not quit and gone home because of the good influence of their fathers and mothers. " (Elder Dunn)
"Build your families and your faith in God. We are to be creators in our own right -- builders of an individual faith in God, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and faith in his Church. We are to build families and be sealed in holy temples. We are to build the church and kingdom of God upon the earth. The entire creation was planned by God. Before he created the world, he announced a divine plan to his spirit children that would provide an opportunity for them to progress toward an eternal exaltation. go to the temple, to do their family history and to do work for the dead. Families are to be sealed together for all eternity. A welding link is to be forged between the fathers and the children. In our time, a whole, complete and perfect union of all dispensations, keys and powers are to be welded together. Nelson also told members to learn to understand their significant responsibilities. Both the creations of God and the creations of man teach us the importance of each component, So it is with each son or daughter of God. We should care for the earth, be wise stewards over it, and preserve it for future generations," Nelson said. "And we are to love and care for one another." (Elder Nelson)
"I hope each of us will long remember what we have heard, but more importantly, what we have felt. May it become an anchor in our lives, a guide by which to live, a training time where we learned to shape our actions toward others, and our attitudes toward ourselves. I want the effects of conference to be felt in LDS homes. I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in our criticism, and more generous with our compliments. take a little time to meditate and think of what you can do to improve your lives and become better examples of what Latter-day Saints should be. Let us stand a little higher and let the nobility of good character shine through our lives," (President Hinckley)

10. What should come third in our lives?


Our Jobs careers, friends, hobbies, service. etc.

When we do what we love, we rejoice along the way ... We are a joyful people. We are participants, walking across a bridge of time at one of the greatest moments in the history of this world. This is not a time for dragging feet or stooped shoulders." (President Mary Ellen Smoot) "Calls will stretch you, The Holy Ghost will tell you what to do when your own abilities and efforts are not enough."