I have felt to provide each member of the Relief Society throughout the world three goals to meet:
- Study diligently.
- Pray earnestly.
- Serve willingly.
- Study Diligently
Our children today are growing up surrounded by voices urging them to abandon that which is right and to pursue, instead, the pleasures of the world. Unless they have a firm foundation in the gospel of Jesus Christ, a testimony of the truth, and a determination to live righteously, they are susceptible to these influences.
It is our responsibility not only to teach them to be sound in spirit and doctrine but also to help them stay that way, regardless of the outside forces they may encounter. This will require much time and effort on our part – and in order to help others, we ourselves need the spiritual and moral courage to withstand the evil we see on every side.
Required is the courage to hold fast to our standards despite the derision of the world.
“Not unknown are cases where [those] of presumed faith . . . have felt that, since by affirming their full faith they might call down upon themselves the ridicule of their unbelieving colleagues, they must either modify or explain away their faith or destructively dilute it, or even pretend to cast it away. Such are hypocrites.”President J. Reuben Clark Jr.
- Pray Earnestly
Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks.
- Serve Willingly
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