I would like to take our next question from our audience here in Accra.

Who has a question for Elder and Sister Renlund? Your name, and ask your question. My name is [INAUDIBLE],, and I'm from Ghana, Accra. And my question is, you see many people not living the law of chastity in our country. Can you please tell me why it's important to live the law of chastity? Thank you. Before we talk about the law of chastity, let's go back to Heavenly Father's plan. Again, He wanted all of His children to come to earth to receive a body and then gain experience, that they could one day return to Him. In many ways, imagine being in the very southernmost part of Ghana, and you need to come to Accra. Let's say there are roads, but you have no map and you have no GPS system. You do have a car, and it has petrol in it. But you have no other way to get here. The commandments of God are very much like road signs that help you. And one of those road signs is "Stay on the road." Living the law of chastity is like that. Not living the law of chastity is like driving off the edge of the road into the ditch, putting the car in reverse, and putting the accelerator to the floor and going as fast as you can backwards, looking only at the rearview mirror. It's not going to turn out well. So God gives a commandment that is to help us get to where we need to be. And as we follow these road signs that we call commandments, we then have a chance to get to where we want to be and receive all the blessings that Heavenly Father has. The law of chastity is one of those because as we live the law of chastity, we receive the blessings that Heavenly Father can give, and can only give, to those who choose to keep His commandments. It helps in the relationship. So I think, I think the first question that we ask--and you've obviously thought about this beautifully--is, why does God care about my moral behavior?

And as we try to answer that question--why would God care?--and it's very clear, if we don't understand His plan of salvation and exaltation, living the law of chastity wouldn't make any sense. So as you talk to people about living the law of chastity, if they don't understand the plan, then the law of chastity doesn't make much sense. But if you understand the plan, that what He wants is for each of His children to be saved, to achieve salvation, but then each, as families, is to be exalted and to have the kind of life He has. And that only happens with people who are committed to each other in a very specific way to live the law of chastity, that they abstain from sexual relations before marriage and that they're absolutely faithful to each other after marriage. One of the great blessings we receive in this life, that we didn't have in our premortal life, is a body.

But one of the tests we have here is to see if we can control our body and have our spirit rule our body. When we choose to follow our Heavenly Father, He tells us that our body is sacred. It can be like a temple, and there is a way it's to be used. It's to be used in the way that our Heavenly Father has revealed in a family setting. There are so many blessings that we receive when we live the law of chastity. One, we know that the Holy Ghost will only dwell with those who are clean and pure. And so the promise of having the Holy Ghost with you is one of the blessings of living a chaste life. The other thing is, you can have a great deal of self-respect. If you know who you are, a daughter or son of our Heavenly Father, you know who you need to be and how you need to conduct your life. It gives you direction, and it gives you a lot of self-respect to say, "Well, then, I know who I am. This is how I should treat my body." You'll build trust in a relationship when you are married. You'll build love that could not otherwise be there. So our Heavenly Father wants us to be happy. He's told us how. Now, we can say, "No, we don't want to follow those commandments." What we're saying is, "I don't want to be happy." But one of those great blessings that He's promised us is happiness and His Spirit if we live the law of chastity and are clean before Him. Thank you for your question.