Increasing Desire to Serve

“One of the assurances that you are being purified is an increasing desire to serve others for the Savior. Home teaching and visiting teaching become more of a joy and less of a chore. You find yourself volunteering more often in a local school or helping care for the poor in your community. Even though you may have little money to give to those who have less, you wish you had more so that you could give more (see Mosiah 4:24). You find yourself eager to serve your children and to show them how to serve others.”

President Henry B. Eyring, “Service and Eternal Life, Ensign Mar 2014, 4. 

The Gospel of Jesus Christ Will Bless and Comfort

“The fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ brings great comfort in stressful times of mortality. It brings light where there is darkness and a calming influence where there is turmoil. It gives eternal hope where there is mortal despair. It is more than just beautiful doctrine. It is a reality in our lives that if we can be obedient and obtain the eternal rewards that God grants us, if we will draw nigh unto Him and embrace the eternal doctrine, we will be blessed.”

“Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. . . . It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.”

Rachel Jankovic, in Neil L. Andersen, “Children,” Ensign, Nov. 2011, 28. 

Providing Opportunities

“If we provide our young people with teaching opportunities, encouraging them not to be ashamed of the gospel, we will help them greatly.”

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Tending the Flock: Teaching Leadership Skills to Youth,” Ensign, June 2008, 18. 

Your Missionary Badge

“If you’re not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now if the time to paint one on your heart—painted, as Paul said, ‘not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God,’"

Elder Neil L. Anderson, “It’s a Miracle,” Ensign, May 2013, 78.

Teaching Unbelievers

“The sons of Mosiah . . . went among the Lamanites. Teaching a people whose traditions were seemingly not conductive to spiritual growth, these faithful missionaries nonetheless helped bring about a mighty change of in these Lamanites. We know that . . . ‘as many of the Lamanites as believed in their preaching, and were converted unto the Lord, never did fall away’ (Alma 23:6).”

Elder James B. Martino of the Seventy, “Repentance That Brings Conversion,” Ensign, Sept. 2012, 58. 

A Voice of Warning

“Because the Lord is kind, He calls servants to warn people of danger. . . .  Think of Jonah. He fled at first from the Lord’s call to warn the people of Nineveh who were blinded to the danger by sin. He knew that wicked people through the ages have rejected prophets and sometimes killed them. Yet when Jonah went forward with faith, the Lord blessed him with safety and success.”

President Henry B. Eyring, “Let us Raise Our Voice of Warning,” Ensign, Jan 2009, 3. 

Discouragement

 “Discouragement will weaken your faith. If you lower your expectations, your effectiveness will decrease, your desire will weaken, and you will have greater difficulty following the Spirit.”

Preach My Gospel, 10. 

Prayerful Selection with Family History Work

 “There are many tasks to be performed in temple and family history work. We should encourage our members to make prayerful selection of the things they can do in their individual circumstances and in view of their current Church callings.”

Dallin H. Oaks, “Family History: ‘In Wisdom and Order,’” Ensign, June 1989, 8.