Marriage/Family/dating

If you are a young man of appropriate age and are not married, don’t waste time in idle pursuits. Get on with life and focus on getting married. Don’t just coast through this period of life. Young men, serve a worthymission. Then make your highest priority finding a worthy, eternalcompanion. When you find you are developing an interest in a young woman, show her that you are an exceptional person that she would findinteresting to know better. Take her to places that are worthwhile. Showsome ingenuity. If you want to have a wonderful wife, you need to haveher see you as a wonderful man and prospective husband.

If you have found someone, you can form an extraordinarily wonderfulcourtship and marriage and be very, very happy eternally by staying withinthe bounds of worthiness the Lord has established.

If you are married, are you faithful to your spouse mentally as well asphysically? Are you loyal to your marriage covenants by never engaging inconversation with another person that you wouldn’t want your spouse tooverhear? Are you kind and supportive of your spouse and children?....

As I have thought back over our life together, I realize how blessed we’ve been. We have not had arguments in our home or unkind words between us. Now I realize that blessing came because of her. It resulted from her willingness to give, to share, and to never think of herself. In our later life together, I tried to emulate her example. I suggest that as husband and wife you do the same in your home.Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage. It is the primary cause of contented, well-developed children. Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother’s love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child’s trusting mind and heart? As a mother you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child’s special talents and unique capacities. With your husband you can nurture, strengthen, and cause those traits to flower....

I feel sorry for any man who hasn’t yet made the choice to seek an eternal companion, and my heart weeps for the sisters who haven’t had the opportunity to marry. Some of you may feel lonely and unappreciated and cannot see how it will be possible for you to have the blessings of marriage and children or your own family. All things are possible to the Lord, and He keeps the promises He inspires His prophets to declare. Eternity is a long time. Have faith in those promises and live to be worthy of them so that in His time the Lord can make them come true in your life. With certainty, you will receive every promised blessing for which you are worthy.




Elder Richard G. Scott, "The Eternal Blessings of Marriage" April 2011 Conference