Accept Your Body

“I plead with you young women to please be more accepting of yourselves, including your body shape and style, with a little less longing to look like someone else. We are all different. Some are tall, and some are short. Some are round, and some are thin. And almost everyone at some time or other wants to be something they are not! … Every young woman is a child of destiny and every adult woman a powerful force for good.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “To Young Women,” Ensign, Nov. 2005, 29.

Put Phone Down

"For the Spirit to dwell in us, we have to have time and space. Learn to put your Smartphones down. Insert time when your technology is intentionally not accessible."

- Neil L. Anderson

The Proclamation and the World

The Plan and the Proclamation

By Elder Dallin H. Oaks

Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

 In our day, the differences most evident are cohabitation without marriage, same-sex marriage, and the raising of children in such relationships. Those who do not believe in or aspire to exaltation and are most persuaded by the ways of the world consider this family proclamation as just a statement of policy that should be changed. In contrast, Latter-day Saints affirm that the family proclamation defines the kind of family relationships where the most important part of our eternal development can occur....

We must try to balance the competing demands of following the gospel law in our personal lives and teachings, even as we seek to show love for all....

Just 20 years after the family proclamation, the United States Supreme Court authorized same-sex marriage, overturning thousands of years of marriage being limited to a man and a woman. The shocking percentage of United States children born to a mother not married to the father came more gradually: 5 percent in 1960,532 percent in 1995,6 and now 40 percent.