It is within our families that we learn unconditional love, which cancome to us and draw us very close to God's love. It is within families that values are taught and character is built. Father and mother are callings from which we will never be released, and there is no more important stewardship than the responsibility we have for God's spirit children who come into our families.


M. Russell Ballard, "Let Our Voices be Heard," Ensign, Nov. 2003, 16.