We can have His Spirit with us by keeping [the covenant in the Sacrament]. First, we must promise to take His name upon us. That means we must see ourselves as His. We will put Him first in our lives. We will want what He wants rather than what we want or what the world teaches us to want.
Second, we promise always to remember Him. We do that every time we pray in His name. We also keep our promise to remember Him when as families we pray together and when we read the scriptures.
[The faith to keep all of the commandments of God] turns our call as a home teacher or a visiting teacher into an errand from the Lord. We go for Him, at His command... That faith-that the Lord calls servants-will help us ignore their limitations when they reprove us, as they will. We will see their good intent more clearly than their human limitations. We will be less likely to feel offense and more likely to feel gratitude to the Master who called them.
We must speak no ill of anyone. We must see the good in each other and speak well of each other whenever we can... We do not know the hearts of those who offend us. Nor do we know all the sources of our own anger and hurt.
There is a protection against pride, that source of disunity. It is to see the bounties which God pours upon us not only as a mark of His favor but an opportunity to join with those around us in greater service. A man and his wife learn to be one by using their similarities to understand each other and their differences to complement each other in serving one another and those around them.
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