What Do Healthy Families Do?

Healthy families enjoy being together, and healthy family members who spend quality and quantity time create stronger families, communities, and nations.

I belong to a large extended family. My parents descended from ancestors who had large families, and they are the parents of twelve children who all lived to adulthood. My parents have seventy grandchildren and two hundred and something great grandchildren. The family continues to grow, while the older generation is graduating to the next life.

This weekend is a family reunion for all of my parents posterity, and we expect about 150 people to attend. There will be some games and other activities for the children and teenagers, but the adults will mostly visit with each other and catch up on our lives for the past year.

We love to be together, and we look forward to our annual reunions. We are blessed to belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which teaches us that families can be together forever and prepares us for eternity. Despite many weaknesses, our family is a strong family, and our family members strengthen their communities and their nation.