I imagine a place where my children can come home, feel comfortable talking about their successes and worries, and where love and respect abound for all. I imagine a home where husband and wife can calmly talk about issues in the family. I imagine a home where everyone has friendship and gives compliments, and leaves the negative behind.
There are many things I envision for my future family. I only pray that I can find that person who I will be able to communicate with and work together with to raise a family.
"In selecting a companion for life and for eternity, certainly the most careful planning and thinking and praying and fasting should be done to be sure that of all the decision, this one must not be wrong," said Pres. Spencer W. Kimball."In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts... It brings with it sacrifice, sharing, and a demand for great selflessness."
There are several times President Gordon B. Hinckley has talked about his wife and their relationship. He always emphasizes how he and Marjorie walked side by side and she was never a step behind.
It is a great example of what a marriage should be, because life together and eternity afterward are a long time; and it is only through obedience and respect for one another that you can receive the promised blessings.
"The one who marries to give happiness as well as receive it, to give service as well as to receive it, and who looks after the interests of the two and then the family as it comes will have a good chance that the marriage will be a happy one," Kimball said.
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