I don't think it's called for for members of the Church to live in fear, to see all that's going on around us and say, "How can we ever raise a family when all of this temptation and difficulty is about us?"

Well, you can, because you can be guided and you can teach your children to be guided. In all of that you can live a happy life and find in the consummation of all of this, in the next existence, that the family can be together.

Now, sometimes there are those that are lost. We have the promise of the prophets that they are not lost permanently, that if they are sealed in the temple ordinances and if the covenants are kept, in due time, after all the correction that's necessary to be given, that they will not be lost.


President Boyd K. Packer, "The Proclamation on the Family" - Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting: Building Up a Righteous Posterity February 9, 2008