The Divine Institution that is Essential to His Eternal Plan

Being Married for almost 20 years, I have found that Marriage is a gift from our Heavenly Father.  It has not always been easy or felt like a gift but in those 20 years we have grown as a couple and have a better understanding of what this plan is about and how important our marriage is.

Elder Parly P. Pratt expressed his feelings after learning about the importance of Marriage from Joseph Smith.

"It was from him that I learned that the wife 

of my bosom might be secured to me for time 

and all eternity; and that the refined 

sympathies and affections which endeared 

us to each other emanated from the 

fountain of divine eternal love . . .

"I had loved before, but I knew not why.  

But now I loved-with a pureness-an intensity 

of elevated, exalted feeling, which would lift 

my soul from the transitory things of this 

grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean. . . .

In short, I could now love with the spirit and 

with the understanding also."