Members Are More Likely To Seek Counsel

Because We Love The Lord, We Should Be Spiritually Sensitive To Moments When The Powerful And Important Truths Of The Gospel Can Be Shared With Others. Perhaps More Importantly, However, We Should Seek At All Times To Purify Ourselves And To Lead Such Worthy Lives That The Light Of Christ Emanates From Us In All That We Say And Do. Our Day-to-day Lives Should Stand As Immutable Witness Of Our Faith In Christ.

There Are Conversations Going On About The Church Constantly. Those Conversations Will Continue Whether Or Not We Choose To Participate In Them. But We Cannot Stand On The Sidelines While Others, Including Our Critics, Attempt To Define What Our Church Teaches... We Are Living In A World Saturated With All Kinds Of Voices. Perhaps Now, More Than Ever, We Have A Major Responsibility As Latter-day Saints To Define Ourselves, Instead Of Letting Others Define Us.

Pollinate The World With The Pure Love Of Christ.

And Fathers, . . . Listen To [your Returned Missionary Sons], And Connect With Them In Regular, Focused Conversation. Talk With Them In Depth About Their Feelings And Desires. Pray With Them And Give Them Blessings As They Face The Important Decisions In Their Future.

The One-cylinder Ward Is One In Which The Bishop Handles All The Problems, Makes All The Decisions, Follows Through On All The Assignments, And Faces Every Challenge. Then, Like Any Other Overworked Cylinder, He Starts To Sputter And Behave Erratically. Eventually, He Burns Out Altogether.