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That obligation begins with absolute loyalty. But the time isn’t far away when you will think of it, and now is the time to prepare for that most important day of your lives when you take unto yourself a wife and companion equal with you before the Lord. Perhaps you are not thinking much of that now. 2:23–24).Īs members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as young men holding the priesthood of God, you have a tremendous obligation toward the girl you marry. “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” ( Gen. She will even surrender her name to his name.Īs Adam declared in the Garden of Eden: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. … He will largely determine the remainder of her life. She will give her all to the young man she marries. The girl you marry will take a terrible chance on you. The title of my talk: “Living Worthy of the Girl You Will Someday Marry.”
They are simply wonderful and delightful young women.Īnd so tonight, in this great priesthood meeting, I wish to speak to you young men, their counterpart.
A week ago President Faust and the Young Women general presidency spoke to the young women of the Church in this tabernacle.Īs I looked at that gathering of beautiful young women the question moved through my mind, “Are we rearing a generation of young men worthy of them?”