The church's 2009 Primary sharing-time theme — "My Eternal Family" — provides a foundation on which the general Primary leaders hope children will someday build an eternal family.

"The family is foundational in the gospel and in our Heavenly Father's plan. It is central to everything. We are all a part of families, no matter what that family looks like," said Cheryl C. Lant, Primary general president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Sister Lant and her counselors, Margaret S. Lifferth and Vicki F. Matsumori, told the Church News that they want children to understand this year that they have an important role in building an eternal family. Primary children can strengthen the families they have now, and prepare for their future families, they said.

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