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Let me just read to you a little statement from the
Prophet Joseph F. Smith.
He said this: "There can be no genuine happiness separate and
apart from the home, and every effort made to sanctify and
preserve its influence is uplifting to those who toil
and sacrifice for its establishment.
Men and women often seek to substitute some other life for
that of the home; they would make themselves believe that
the home means restraint; that the highest liberty is the
fullest opportunity to move about at will.
There is no happiness without service, and there is no
service greater than that which converts the home into a
divine institution, and which promotes and preserves family
life."
And so we can feel that, can't we?
We can.
Sitting in this little home built by a pioneer
mother--single mom with a 15-year-old boy and a
9-year-old boy, I guess, carrying the timbers and doing
whatever had to be done so they could be sheltered
through the winter of 1848--
It's a holy place.
It is a holy place.
It's still a holy place.
You can still feel.