Lesson 8: Eternal Families

Sister Gill taught a wonderful and thought provoking lesson this week on Eternal Families. Thanks to the girls for their comments and questions. It was comforting to know that we can be sealed for eternity with our families through temple work. Heavenly Father loves us and wants us all and (our families) to return to be with him.

"The whole aim and purpose of the gospel is to enable men and women—united as one in the Lord—to create for themselves eternal family units in eternity. Celestial marriage prepares us for the greatest joy and happiness known to mortals and for eternal life in the realms ahead. May we say, as many have done before, that what men call Mormonism is the very system of laws and truths which will make of earth a heaven and of man a god"

You cannot live with your families eternally unless you are striving now to live a celestial law. You will spend eternity in the kingdom you have prepared yourselves for, and it is worth every effort to qualify now for the blessings of the celestial kingdom.