Young Women Lesson 42: Gratitude and Appreciation

Gratitude is a Spirit-filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. This afternoon I am honored to represent those Relief Society leaders who, here in this very Tabernacle, shared the doctrines of the kingdom, emphasized the significance of women’s...

Young Women Lesson 41: Optimism

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life. When I was young I loved playing sports, and I have many fond memories of those days. But not all of them are pleasant. I remember one day after my football team lost a tough game, I came home feeling...

Young Women Lesson 40: Self-Mastery

In recent years, we Latter-day Saints have been teaching, singing, and testifying much more about the Savior Jesus Christ. I rejoice that we are rejoicing more. As we “talk [more] of Christ,” 1 the gospel’s doctrinal fulness will come out of obscurity. For example, some of our friends...

Young Women Lesson 39: Preventing Disease

This lesson may be used as the basis of a Mutual activity. Consider inviting a physician or nurse to visit with the young women about current health issues and practical helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle and prevent disease. Or consider inviting a physical and mental health care...

Young Women Lesson 38: Physical Health

This talk was directed to young men, but it has valuable principles for the young women, too.

The certainties of the gospel, the truth, once you understand it, will see you through these difficult times. Young men speak of the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the...

Young Women Lesson 37: Maintaining Chastity through Righteous Living

Sometimes we think we can live on the edge and still maintain our virtue. But that is a risky place to be. On one of the trails in a canyon near my home, there is a sign that says Stay on the Path. As one embarks on that trail, it soon becomes very clear that this is sound advice. There are hills...

Young Women Lesson 36: Honesty

When we are true to the sacred principles of honesty and integrity, we are true to our faith, and we are true to ourselves. In front of this vast worldwide audience and with some reservation, I make a personal confession. I do this as an introduction to a subject that has weighed heavily on my mind...

Young Women Lesson 35: Wise Choices

Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. My dear brothers and sisters, I am humbled as I stand before you this morning. I ask for your faith and prayers in my behalf as I speak about those things which have been on my mind and which I...

Young Women Lesson 34: Hold Fast to the Lord's Standards

Live by your standards. Stand up for what you believe in. With each of you, I gratefully sustain God's will for His people. Thank you, President Monson, for the purity of your heart. When young Joseph Smith told the truth about his sacred experience in the grove, he was persecuted and...

Young Women Lesson 33: The Sacred Power of Procreation

Be clean — in language, in thought, in body, in dress. My dear brethren of the priesthood, what an inspiration it is to look into the faces of the 21,000 here in the Conference Center, with the knowledge that millions are gathered in church halls and other locations throughout the world. I regret...

Young Women Lesson 32: The Importance of Life

I want to tell you of an incident that happened many years ago. Two of our sons, then little boys, were wrestling on the rug, and they had reached that line which separates laughter from tears. So I worked my foot carefully between them and lifted the older one back to a sitting position on the...

Young Women Lesson 31: The Law of the Land

Neither mobbings nor the army could turn the Saints aside from what they knew to be true. It is my purpose to show that in troubled times the Lord has always prepared a safe way ahead. We live in those "perilous times" which the Apostle Paul prophesied would come in the last days.1 If we are to be...

Young Women Lesson 30: Strengthening Testimony through Service

Look for ways to bless the lives of others through seemingly simple acts of service. President David O. McKay once quoted Abraham Lincoln as saying, "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother."1 These words well explain my feelings about my own mother. Viola Jean Goates Snow, Jeanie to...

Young Women Lesson 29: Exaltation

In God’s eternal plan, salvation is an individual matter; exaltation is a family matter. Gratefully we welcome Elder D. Todd Christofferson to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Wholeheartedly we sustain this wonderful First Presidency and all who have been called. Brethren and sisters, when...

Young Women Lesson 28: Agency

Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. During World War II, President James E. Faust, then a young enlisted man in the United States Army, applied for officer candidate school. He appeared before a board of inquiry...