The Eternal Family: A Plain and Precious Part of the Plan of Salvation.

Why am I here? 

Whatis the purpose of my existence? 

Where will I go when I die?

Why are families so important?

 

The family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children. In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshipped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life. 

(The Family, A Proclamation to the World)

"God and his plan are eternal. He instituted marriage and family in the beginning. God Created the earth, the garden, and our first parents in order to create families for all of His children to be born into the experience mortal life-especially mortal family life. The Fall ocurred because Adam and Eve chose to obey God´s commandment to multiply and replenish the earth and thus create the first family. The Savior completed the atonement in order to reconcile God´s children with the Father and with one another. Thus, the great plan of happiness is God´s plan for happiness in time and in eternity.
God commands his children to marry and become one, and the Savior taught that "what therefore GodGod hath joined together, let not man put asunder" (Matthew 19:6, see also 1 Corinthians 11:11) Marriage and family are eternal, and priesthood keys have been given to prophets to seal on earth and in heaven. The Lord told Moses, "Behold this is my work and my glory, to bring to pass th eimmortality and eternal life of man." (Moses 1:39), and Hetold the Prophet Joseph Smith that the new and everlasting covenant of marriage "was instituted for the fulness of my glory" (D & C132:6). The work and glory of God is to assist His children to make and keep sacred covenants designed to allow them to be sealed together eternally to one another and to Him, and thereby enjoy all God enjoys. It should be the work and glory of all Latter-day Saints to make and keep these sacred covenants, to teach these transcendent truths to those who do not yet know of them, and to work in God´s holy temples to make these covenants and ordinances available to all the children of God.
The eternal nature of the marriage covenant and the promise of the everlasting family association are among the most beautiful and essential doctrines of the restored gospel. I fact, the purpose of the gospel and the Church is to exalt the family.
Elder Hugh B. Brown stated:
The family concept is one of the major and most important of the whole theological doctrine. In fact, our very concept of heaven itself is the projection of the home into the eternity. Salvation, then, is essentially a family affair, and a full participation in the plan of salvation can be had only in family units. (1966, 103.)


From the time of Adam and Eve and on to the present day, God´s covenant people rejoice in the plain and most precious doctrine of eternal families." (Hawkins, 2012. p. 344-345)

We can be happy families! 

We can!!!

By reading "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," we can learn the importance of the family.

We were sent to this earth to progress and gain experiences and knowledge, we all pass for different type of challenges and trials. It is a great blessing, to be surrounded by people who loves us and that will do all they can to help us achieve our goals, OUR FAMILY!

References:

Brown, H. B., (1966, October). In Conference Report, 101-105.