Recognize the Good in Others

“I offer some final thoughts for those who love a family member who is not making good choices. That can challenge our patience and endurance. We need to trust in the Lord and in His timing that a positive response to our prayers and rescue efforts can occur. We do all that we can to serve, to bless, and to submissively acknowledge God’s will in all things. . . . With faith we can know that this straying loved one is not abandoned but is in the watchcare of a loving Savior.

“Recognize the good in others, not their stains. At times a stain needs to appropriate attention to be cleansed, but always build on his or her virtues.”

Elder Richard G. Scott, “For Peace at Home,” Ensign, May 2013, 31. 

We Are To Act

 “He is our perfect Father. He loves us beyond our capacity to understand. He knows what is best for us. He sees the end from the beginning. He wants us to act to gain needed experience. . . . We are expected to assume accountability by acting on a decision that is consistent with His teachings without prior confirmation. We are not to sit passively waiting or to murmur because the Lord has not spoken. We are to act.”

Elder Richard G. Scott, “Learning to Recognize Answers to Prayer,” Ensign, Nov. 1989, 31-32. 

Assignments and Fore-ordination

President Spencer W. Kimball taught: "Before we came here, faithful women were given certain assignments while faithful men were foreordained to certain priesthood tasks. While we do not now remember the particulars, this does not alter the glorious reality of what we once agreed to. You are accountable for those things which long ago were expected of you just as are those we sustain as prophets and apostles!"

"The Role of Righteous Women," Ensign, Nov. 1979, 102.