Family

-How can I prepare now to be a righteous wife & mother?

-How can I strengthen my family?

How can I prepare to be a righteous Wife & Mother?

Focus on the Savior Develop Christlike attributes

How can I focus on the Savior?

• Daily prayer/Constantly have a prayer in your heart • Read the scriptures, conference talks, New Era • Seminary • Go to the temple • Attend church and YW activities • Spiritual music • Pictures, posters, surroundings

What Christlike attributes will help me as a Mother?

• Patience • Love • Kindness • Compassion • Understanding • Sense of Humor • Spiritual • Calm • Organized • Serves others • Educated • Hard working • Positive • Dedicated • Believing/Testimony

Scriptures:

• D&C 88:123-125 • Moroni 7:45 • Alma 56:47-48

Becoming a righteous wife and Mother won’t happen overnight, it takes time and…

Preparation

• Like any other “job” you need to learn about the position and be trained by someone with experience.

• Who can you learn from?

Mom, Grandma, Older Sister, Aunts, Friends Mom, YW Leaders, neighbors

Look to your Mother…

• Share “Mothers & Daughters” Video

There is nothing as

life changing

as the influence of a righteous woman. Model yourselves after your Mother

NOT celebrities.

If my Mom has a question,

she studies

to figure it out.

If I become more like her, I’ll become

more like Christ.

• • • Seek Learning: You Have Work to Do!

Mary N. Cook, 1 st Counselor in YW General Presidency God gave you moral agency and the opportunity to learn while on earth, and He has a work for you to do. To accomplish this work, you have an individual responsibility to seek learning. Some of your most important learning will be outside of the classroom. Surround yourself with exemplary women who can teach you skills in homemaking, art, music, family history, sports, writing, or speaking. Get to know them and ask them to mentor you. When you have learned something new, teach it at Mutual or become a mentor to other young women as part of the requirements for your Honor Bee.

Gaining knowledge now will pay huge dividends when you become a mother. “A mother’s education level has a profound influence on the educational choices of her [children].” A mother’s education can hold the “key to halt [the] poverty cycle.” Educated women “tend to: Give birth to healthier babies, have children who are healthier, be more confident, resilient and have improved reasoning and judgment.”

• Seek Learning: You Have Work to Do!

Mary N. Cook, 1 st Counselor in YW General Presidency We learn in “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” that “mothers are primarily responsible for the now.

nurture of their children.” Providing an education for your children is part of that nurturing and is your sacred responsibility. Like the stripling warriors, who “had been taught by their mothers,” you will be the most important teacher your children will ever have , so choose your learning carefully. Bless your children and your future home by learning as much as you can

Parable of the 10 Virgins

In the 25th chapter of Matthew, the parable of the ten virgins teaches us that spiritual preparation is vital and must be achieved individually. You may think it selfish that the five wise virgins did not share their oil, but it was impossible. Spiritual preparation must be acquired individually,

drop by drop

, and cannot be shared.

The time is now for you to diligently apply yourselves to increasing your spiritual knowledge —

drop by drop

—through prayer, scripture study, and obedience. The time is now to pursue your education —

drop by drop

. Each virtuous thought and action also adds oil to your lamps, qualifying you for the guidance of the Holy Ghost, our divine teacher.

How do the roles of men & women compliment each other in marriage?

How do these items work together?

Marriage is a TEAM

Men and women are given different responsibilities that complement or “complete" each other to bring about God’s purposes.

• D&C 121:41-43 • Corinthians 11:11 • In His wisdom…God created Man & Woman

Equal Partners

Husband Wife

Divine Roles

• What are your Divine Roles as a wife and Mother?

Strengthen Home & Family

Ideas for strengthening your family and your future family: