"What matters Most Is What Lasts Longest"

"[The] devastated and displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina .. were hungry, frightened people who had lost everything and needed food,medical attention, and help of all kinds, but what they wanted and needed most was their families.

"Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families--our parents and children and siblings--for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings."

M. Russell Ballard, "What Matters Most Is What Lasts Longest," Ensign, Nov. 2005, 41