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(SINGING) A long time
ago in a beautiful--

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We are the Thai family.

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We live in Hong Kong.

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There's eight of us,
six kids in the family.

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And we're members of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

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Saints.

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My wife and I have
been married 15 years.

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It has been quite a ride.

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I am Frank [INAUDIBLE],
a number of the Church

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of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.

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I feel very great and honored
to be a father and a husband.

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And I always strive to
live that responsibility

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to glorify my Father in Heaven.

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[SINGING]

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We're the [INAUDIBLE] family.

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As normal families do,
you have your arguments

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and your squabbles.

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But at the end of the
day, these children

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are quite a tight knit group.

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We are the [INAUDIBLE] family,
and we have three boys.

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After getting married and have
the children, we feel the love.

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And you would give
anything for your child.

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And it changed me.

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Where is your shoes?

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As your child is born, you just
have this extreme love for them

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that is hard to explain.

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And as you watch
your child grow,

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you just want them to be happy.

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The Church teaches that a family
is the most important part

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of the plan that our
Heavenly Father has for us.

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Several years ago, the
prophet of the Church

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and leaders of the Church
made a proclamation

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called A Proclamation
on the Family.

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And in that document,
the proclamation

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outlined our core beliefs
regarding the family,

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the definition of what a family
is, of what a marriage is.

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Now there's a lot of different
kinds of families in the world

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today, different circumstances.

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I think what the Church
teaches us is there's an ideal,

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and then there's
certain principles

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that would apply regardless
of what kind of family

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that you belong to.

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The ideal that we're
taught is that there's

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a father and mother in the
home, then their leading

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a [INAUDIBLE] father.

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And they try their best to teach
their children accordingly.

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Being a single parent, it's hard
to do like any parenting job.

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But being a member of the Church
is being a member of a family

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as well.

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And I find a lot of
joy, and support,

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and love through the Church
and through the Gospel

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and what it brings
to me and my family.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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I am a single mother,
but I'm not alone.

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In difficult times, the leaders
and members of the Church

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help me and that makes
my burdens light.

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The proclamation of the family
is to every man and woman

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on this earth that family
is central to God's plan.

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And as parents, we need to
take great responsibility

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by taking good care
of our children

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and ensuring that we take them
back to our Heavenly Father.

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When you really think about
and practice what that means,

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it means that God cares
about her marriage.

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God cares about our family.

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He cares about the way I raise
my children and the effort

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that I put to that.

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He cares about my
relationship with my wife

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and how I treat my wife.

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Once a week, we have a
night, family [INAUDIBLE]

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that's dedicated just to
talking about a Gospel topic.

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We have family home evening.

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That's one thing
we do as a family

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that we're pretty careful
about doing all the time.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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As we read the
scriptures as a family

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and have family home
evening and family prayers,

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we can feel the love
of our Heavenly Father.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Central to the plan
of our Heavenly Father

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is the role of the
family in this life

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and the potential to have
eternal family relations.

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The gospel teaches
us that our families

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can continue to be as a
family even after we die.

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The teaching of
the Gospel really,

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really help us to know things
in eternal perspective.

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That we have our
life before, and then

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that we have a life after.

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And then the unit of the
family is really eternal.

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True happiness can only come
and develop through a family.

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So I think we strive to
defend and to protect

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the values, the core
principles of family,

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because we realize
that that is where

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the true source of
happiness comes from.

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People are always
saying that they always

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notice something different
about the kids, about us.

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And what it is is the
fundamental belief

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in the teachings of the
Gospel and Jesus Christ

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and the Atonement of Christ.

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What they see is really
the spirit of Christ in us.

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And it just happens that we
portray that in performing,

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but what they're
really seeing is

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our belief in eternal families.

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(SINGING).

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The family is our
great defense of life.

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I feel very blessed
that I do have a family.

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It's challenging.

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it's not easy, but
it's very rewarding.

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[SINGING]

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