Notable quotes:
"The family that prays together is together, even when they are far apart."
"Building faith in Jesus Christ is the beginning of reversing any spiritual decline in your family and in your home. That faith is more likely to bring repentance than your preaching against each symptom of spiritual decline."
"The restoration of the gospel started with a humble question pondered in a humble home, and it can continue in each of our homes as we continue to establish and practice gospel principles there."
Summary points:
Talk summary:
On April 6, 1830 in the Whitmer family home in Fayette, New York, the Prophet Joseph Smith officially organized the restored Church under the direction of the Lord. The event brought together a small group of people in the home where they felt the Holy Ghost and were in a “holy place.”
“That miraculous feeling is what we all want in our homes. ... My purpose today is to teach what I know of how we can qualify for that feeling more often and invite it to last longer in our families. As you know from experience, that is not easy to do."
Contention, pride and sin have to be kept at bay. Even good people eventually face a spiritual decline if they don’t protect the things that make a strong family.
“Building faith in Jesus Christ is the beginning of reversing any spiritual decline in your family and in your home. That faith is more likely to bring repentance than your preaching against each symptom of spiritual decline.”
Five principles — growing in faith, praying with love, teaching early repentance, cultivating the missionary spirit and visiting the temple — help families feel and keep the Spirit in their homes.
“The restoration of the gospel started with a humble question pondered in a humble home, and it can continue in each of our homes as we continue to establish and practice gospel principles there.”
To those who have tried “with full heart” for the blessing of a gospel-oriented home and it has not been granted, he promised something he learned from a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:
“He said, as well as I can remember, ‘You are worrying about the wrong problem. You just live worthy of the celestial kingdom, and the family arrangements will be more wonderful than anything you can imagine.’ ”
