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Saturday, November 22, 2008

At the MTC it was busy and felt a little like organized chaos. You pull up front and you jump out and get luggage and everything out and then you are immediately asked to move your vehicle so all the others can do the same thing.
You are whisked in one direction to drop off your luggage while you maneuver through people who are coming out of some doors crying because they just said goodbye to their missionaries. Then you go back up the walkway from where you came and head inside, after taking as many pictures as you can! Once at the doors, there is a place marked for missionaries to enter and for families to enter. Once inside there a loads of people all with the same look on their faces, one of happiness mixed with dread. You then meet up with your missionary and then down the hall to "the room". Once inside the room, you watch wonderful video snippets of "Mormon commercials" and then learn about the MTC. The MTC President and his wife say a few words, you sing "Called to Serve" and then they instruct you to say goodbye and the families go out one door and your missionary goes out another. That place runs like a well oiled machine. I felt great comfort when one of the sisters said that all of the people who were there for the missionaries had covenanted to take care of them and to have their best interest at heart. That made me feel better, knowing that those brothers and sisters had done just that to take care of my missionary. It was a grand experience with so many emotions to even label. Such a great sacrifice for those great young men and women. A sacrifice that will bring forth great blessings....

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For all my boys

"The girl you marry will take a terrible chance on you. She will give her all to the young man she marries. He will largely determine the remainder of her life. She will even surrender her name to his name? There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen. Let no member of this Church ever lose control of himself in such an unnecessary and vicious manner. Let him bring to his marriage words of peace and composure.

I constantly deal with those cases of members of the Church who have been married in the temple and who later divorce and then apply for a cancellation of their temple sealing. When first married, they are full of great expectations, with a wonderful spirit of happiness. But the flower of love fades in an atmosphere of criticism and carping, of mean words and uncontrolled anger. Love flies out the window as contention enters. I repeat, my brethren, if any of you young men have trouble controlling your temper, I plead with you to begin the work of making that correction now. Otherwise you will bring only tears and sorrow into the homes which you will someday establish?

The girl who marries you?will wish to be married to someone who loves her, who trusts her, who walks beside her, who is her very best friend and companion. She will wish to be married to someone who encourages her in her Church activity and in community activities which will help her to develop her talents and make a greater contribution to society. She will want to be married to someone who has a sense of service to others, who is disposed to contribute to the Church and to other good causes. She will wish to be married to someone who loves the Lord and seeks to do His will."