Week 2.

So this week in class we talked a lot about fertility. For a discussion board we has to participate, this statement and questions were given to us ;Decisions relative to when, how often or even whether to have children is a very personal once, and a very significant one. It may be, however, that we are prone to leaving God's direction and preference out of our decision-making process. Does it really matter how many children I have? Why, and who is affected by my decisions? I believe that it does matter. The decision process is a private matter that stays between a husband, the wife, and the Lord. I can not wait until I will be able to start a family. I love children and want children of my own. There is just one thing that I need to do first, get married. Do not worry though I am working on that. But I want to be able to bring pure and holy spirits into this world. I really enjoyed the quotes that where provided along with our assignment. I agree with the quotes and they are straight to the point. They instruct us on what we need to do regarding children.
 

“There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty?—To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into the families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can.”
 - President Brigham Young

 "You did not come on earth just to “eat, drink and be merry.” You came knowing full well your responsibilities. You came to get for yourself a mortal body that could become perfected, immortalized, and you understood that you were to act in partnership with God in providing bodies for other spirits equally anxious to come to the earth for righteous purposes. And so you will not postpone parenthood. There will be rationalists who will name to you numerous reasons for postponement. Of course, it will be harder to get your college degrees or your financial start with a family, but strength like yours will be undaunted in the face of difficult obstacles. 
“Have your family as the Lord intended. Of course it is expensive, but you will find a way, and besides, it is often those children who grow up with responsibility and hardships who carry on the world’s work. And, John and Mary, do not limit your family as the world does. I am wondering now where I might have been had my parents decided arbitrarily that one or two children would be enough, or that three or four would be all they could support, or that even five would be the limit; for I was the sixth of eleven children. Don’t think you will love the later ones less or have few material things for them. Perhaps like Jacob, you might love the eleventh one most. Young people, have your family, love them, sacrifice for them, teach them righteousness, and you will be blessed and happy all the days of your eternal lives.“
 - President Spencer W. Kimball (in an open letter to all young couples, found here in the Ensign, June 1975)