Heres an example

2. What is the difference between a Soul
Mate and an Eternal Companion?
Soul Mates are defined as your “other half”. It is fantasy that
you will never experience frustration or problems down the
road.
Why would this be a false fantasy?
God has given us agency to choose for our selves. Any good
man or woman can have happiness and a successful marriage
if both are willing to pay the price.
What do you suppose the “Price” is for a happy successful
marriage?

3. Eternal companion: A spouse that you are willing to change and
endure hardship for to posses your marital bonds for eternity.
Soul Mates: A spouse we seek to satisfy all our desires that we will
find no fault or hardship with.
• In order to have an eternal companion we are to become one, not find
one.
• Does believing in soul mates really do any harm?
• The trouble lies in unrealistic expectations. While dating, marriage is
portrayed as perfect and trouble free.

4. Eternal Companions
are equal partners
How is a marriage equal if the father is to preside in the home?
Roles in the family give us obligation towards one another, not power
over one another. Genesis 3:16 states: Adam “ruling with” not “ruling
over” Eve.
Ruling with your spouse is applied when you seek council and advice
from one another for the future of the family.

5. How can you become equal when you have so
many differences of opinion and background?
The best way to look at it is by the “Triangle Analogy”
. Draw a triangle and place God, husband,
and wife on each corner. What happens as
the husband and wife move closer to God?
Partners become equal as they come closer
to Heavenly Father.

6. Why is family Interaction
pertinent for eternity?
The benefits of family interaction are: enhanced
communication, problem solving, trust, and
expressed love towards one another.
What are some examples of effective family
interaction?

7. Effective family interaction
Activities Benefits
Playing Board Games Family Cohesiveness
Family Trips (Disney Land ) High Levels of
Adaptability
Family Rituals (Birthdays, Holidays, Family Unity
Etc.)
Family Meals Family
Communication

8. What is a parent’s greatest influence on
their children?
A parents most powerful tool is religious faith.
Religious communities are more likely to exhibit
behavior in harmony with good moral values.

9. Questions that could effect
eternity
If parents don’t teach their children, where will the
children go for answers?
How does knowledge influence decisions?
Why do we have families?

10. Mothers are a necessity
President Thomas S. Monson asked: “One cannot
remember mother and forget God, Why?
Ponder your answer with these words.
Partners in creation,
service,
sacrifice.

11. Temporal and Eternal Views
on Procreation
Why do we have children?
In a temporal perspective, we have children for
economical liabilities and to carry on our family
name.

12. Eternal Reasoning
In an eternal perspective, we have children to cultivate our faith,
hope, charity, love, knowledge, patience, humility, and diligence.
These attributes are what will prepare us to be exalted beings

13. Why Man and Woman?
In The Family: A Proclamation to the World its states
“Children are entitled to be reared by a mother and a
father.”
Should the parents be entitled to the children or should
the children be entitled to the parents?

14. The social structure of the family was designed by
Heavenly Father.
What is the purpose of Gender?
Provider/Nurturer

15. Sacred or Secular
Secular: Worldly rather than spiritual.
When people perceive something as sacred, it changes
the way they treat it.
Example: A wedding ring in the secular world
represents commitment, but in a sacred view it
represents an eternal union.

16. How do I obtain an sacred
point of view?
A key aspect of coming to view a relationship as
sacred is to first include God an active member of
the relationship.
How will you include God in your relationship?
Sacred

17. Forgiveness
We are bound to encounter conflict in the family,
some offenses may feel impossible to forgive.
Think of all the offenses that Heavenly Father has gone
though with his children. (Yet he has forgiven them;
How?)
Murder, Adultery, Abuse, Theft, Etc…

18. Forgiveness Motivates
Repentance
Our Heavenly Father has forgiven us because He knows the
power of repentance.
As we come to understand the power of repentance, we will
gain a stronger desire to forgive.
Apologies facilitate forgiveness, and forgiveness motivates
repentance.

19. Divorce
If there is a point in your marriage where you are
contemplating divorce, please consider the following:
Is there anything that Jesus Christ cannot heal?

20. Who do you suppose is
on the other side of the
door?
You
Why do you
suppose there
is no door
handle?
If we desire our marriage
to be healed, we must
allow the Savior to help
us.

21. Crucibles and Healing
These trying times in marriage can also be
commonly known as “crucibles”.
Crucible: Is a furnace like vessel that endures
intense heat that refines and transfigures raw
materials into a new and stronger substance.(Robinson,
Carroll, & Watson,2005; Romney 1969)

22. 2 Perspectives During
Crucibles
To Be Better To Be Bitter
Enhance relationships Heartache
Renew appreciation Injustice
Inspire faith Emptiness
Gain wisdom and attributes from God

23. What will these men bind?
Matt 18:18
“Whatsoever ye shall
bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven.”

24. Temple Covenants
Families must make covenants in God’s Holy Temple
and keep those covenants to posses their family
bonds in Heaven.