Our stake Relief Society President visited our ward on Sunday for Ward Conference, and asked that all the sisters in the stake memorize the The Family Proclamation to the World by the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles. I know that my memorization skills are non-existent but nevertheless, I am going to ask Heavenly Father to bless me with the Gift to Memorize, if there is such a gift. I've started to memorize it by posting one paragraph in large print on my bathroom mirror. Sister Robinette Jensen said we would be blessed in our lives and I already feel the blessings in mine. It's such a marvelous opportunity to learn the inspired words of a Prophet of God and his Apostles.
“The world we are in is a world of turmoil, of shifting values. Shrill voices call out for one thing or another in betrayal of time-tested standards of behavior. The moral moorings of our society have been badly shaken. …
“… With so much of deception concerning standards and values, with so much of allurement and enticement to take on the slow stain of the world, we have felt to warn and forewarn. In furtherance of this we of the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles now issue a proclamation to the Church and to the world as a declaration and reaffirmation of standards, doctrines, and practices relative to the family which the prophets, seers, and revelators of this church have repeatedly stated throughout its history.”
President Gordon B. Hinckley, before reading “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” in “Stand Strong against the Wiles of the World,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 99–100.
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