Mothers have helped influence our world and Church and are still continuing to do so today. A mother has the ability and power to teach and guide her children to do what is right.
“Mothers have influenced the world greatly with each child they raise, and each child with whom they interact. I truly believe that mothers shape the future by how they shape their children,” Tina Troumbley, a junior from St. Anthony, Idaho, said.
When Eve bore Cain, she and Adam taught the gospel to their children (Moses 5: 12). Mothers following Eve should continue to teach their children to walk in the Lord’s paths.
Elisabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, taught him the importance of being faithful and walking in the Lord’s ways. Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, willingly took on her call to be the mother of the Savior of the world at a young age. Through her faithful and diligent example she not only influenced her son but mothers all over the world. Mothers today are continuing this pattern of rearing their children in righteousness. Through these great scriptural women, we can see and learn what great opportunities the calling of motherhood can hold.
Mothers have the responsibility to teach their children.
“A mother can either influence a child positively or negatively in their childhood and young adulthood,” Molly Byington, a freshman from Smithfield, Utah, said.
The two thousand stripling sons had never fought, “yet they did not fear death; ... they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them” (Alma 56; 47).
As children walk through this mortal experience, mothers around the world will be supporting them, helping them, guiding them and always showing unconditional love towards them.
President David O. McKay said, “This ability and willingness to properly rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world.
“She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the admiration and the plaudits of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters, whose influence will be felt through generations to come, whose immortal souls will exert an influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God.” (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453–54.)
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