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Are There So Many Fascinating, Exciting Things To Do Or So Many Challenges Pressing Down Upon You That It Is Hard To Keep Focused On That Which Is Essential? When Things Of The World Crowd In, All Too Often The Wrong Things Take Highest Priority. Then It Is Easy To Forget The Fundamental Purpose Of Life. Satan Has A Powerful Tool To Use Against Good People. It Is Distraction. He Would Have Good People Fill Life With 'good Things' So There Is No Room For The Essential Ones. Have You Unconsciously Been Caught In That Trap?

What I Am Trying To Teach Is That When We Keep The Temple Covenants We Have Made And When We Live Righteously In Order To Maintain The Blessings Promised By Those Ordinances, Then Come What May, We Have No Reason To Worry Or To Feel Despondent.

Lay The Burden At The Feet Of The Savior.

You Don't Need To Compromise Your Standards To Be Accepted By Good Friends. The More Obedient You Arethe More The Lord Can Help You Overcome Temptation. You Can Also Help Others Because They Will Feel Your Strength. Let Them Know About Your Standards By Consistently Living Themno One Intends To Make Serious Mistakes. They Come When You Compromise Your Standards To Be More Accepted By Others. You Be The Strong One. You Be The Leader. Choose Good Friends And Resist Peer Pressure Together.

I Have Been Taught That We Can Make Many Choices In Life, But We Cannot Choose Our Final Destiny. Our Actions Do That.