Franklin D' Richards

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• Franklin D. Richards
• Some members of the Church possess powerful and
  unfaltering testimonies, while others possess
  less forceful testimonies. It should be
  recognized that testimonies can be acquired,
  testimonies can be kept, and testimonies can be
  lost.
• "Many thousands have received a testimony, a
  conviction of the truthfulness
• of the restored gospel, by following the formula
  study, pray, and attend
• church. They have thus been able to better
  interpret the scriptures and
• find their place in the eternal scheme of things.
• "To those of you who feel that you have a firm
  testimony, remember a
• testimony is never static a testimony can be
  lost. To keep it alive, it
• must be fed. Continue to study, pray, attend
  church and be involved.
• This will not only keep your testimony alive, but
  it will also expand and
• become more meaningful in your life."

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• Neal A. Maxwell on Unheralded Heroes"So it is
  that the real but unheralded heroes and heroines
  of our time are the men and women of the earth
  who uncommonly resist the world's common
  temptations, who surmount the common tribulations
  of the world and continue to the very end in
  righteousness, arriving home battered slightly,
  yet much bettered. Such individuals may get
  little mortal applause or recognition, but there
  is real rejoicing elsewhere by those who really
  know what a good performance is!"

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• Quynn Tebbs was a sophomore guard on the
  University of Arizona basketball team. He's
  also LDS and a served a mission to Brazil. He
  had a promising future on the respected Wildcats
  team, but when his grandfather in Utah was
  diagnosed with terminal leukemia, he quit the
  team to move back home "There are some things in
  life that are more important than basketball,
  Tebbs said from his home in Utah Thursday. "He's
  always been one of the most important people in
  my life. He's always been there for me and now I
  need to be there for him."

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Elder L. Lionel KendrickOf the First Quorum of
the Seventy

• It has been from the beginning and it will be
  till the end that the natural man will have a
  tendency to rationalize and to blame his
  behaviors on others or on certain circumstances.
  When we attempt to place responsibility for our
  choices on others, we are responding in a less
  than Christlike manner. Blaming is an unrighteous
  form of communication.

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• When ten-year-old Truman was asked what he wanted
  for his birthday, he only looked puzzled for a
  minute before he answered, "I'll watch TV, and
  then I'll tell you
• It's hard to rear Zion's children when they are
  constantly bombarded by Babylon. One mother
  confessed, "I spent hours putting together a
  family home evening about the plan of salvation,
  and the same day my children saw cartoons. Later
  when I asked them what they remembered about the
  lesson, their faces were blank, but they knew
  every word from the 30 second advertising spots
  they had heard."

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• Wilford Woodruff
• "I feel that of all people under heaven we ought
  to be the most grateful to our God and that we
  ought to remember to keep our covenants, and
  humble ourselves before him, and labor with all
  our hearts discharge faithfully the
  responsibilities which devolve upon us, and the
  duties which are required at our hands. For we
  can afford to do anything which God requires of
  us but none of us can afford to do wrong. It
  would cost far more than this world with all its
  wealth is worth for the Latter-day Saints to do
  wrong and come under the disfavor of Almighty
  God.
• (_Journal of Discourses_ 22148 - 149, April 3,
  1881)

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• "Let us, every one, resolve within ourselves to
  arise to a new
• opportunity, a new sense of responsibility, a new
  shouldering of
• obligation to assist our Father in Heaven in His
  glorious work of bringing
• to pass the immortality and eternal life of His
  sons and daughters throughout the earth.
• (President Hinckley missionary fireside)

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