To Be a Real Man in the Best Sense Is to Be a Man of God

Fathers: Your task as a father and head of your family is to lead all of your family back to Christ.

To come to Christ is to learn to love Him with all of our heart, might, mind and strength.

With the following particulars:

Heart: Be and teach everyone in your family to be honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and to do good to all men through faith in Christ.

Might: Use all the influence and power you have and encourage your family to build the kingdom of God on the earth (the LDS Church) and to establish Zion (the society run by Christ’s pure love unfeigned where all persons are of one heart, one mind, dwell in righteousness and will not allow anyone in their group to be poor). Meanwhile, see that everyone in your family has good nourishment, clothing, shelter and physical safety.

Mind: Believe in Christ and teach everyone in your family to full trust in Jesus Christ and to come to know that God hears and answers prayers, that we will all stand before him to be judged of our works done in this mortality, and that we will spend the rest of eternity after the resurrection doing that which we finally chose to be found doing in mortality, be it good or evil.

Strength: To honor the physical tabernacle loaned to us by Christ for this mortality, and to use it to protect all women, the weak, the ill and infirm, the aged, and to give that great gift of mortal life to all the spirits God chooses to send to mortality through your lineage, to be born in the New and Everlasting Covenant.

And never, ever, be selfish.