What is WALEO?

When our oldest child Charissa was about 3 years old, Eric Carter had just given me a copy of the Seven Habits book, and Winona and I were writing a family motto. Charissa added the line, "We all love each other!" The first letters of that sentence spell WALEO, and she loved saying "WALEO!" We still recite the family motto every week in our family night.

Black family motto
I am an important part of the Black family.

I can be proud of my family and ancestors.

We are brothers and sisters, so we are kind to each other in word and deed.

We all love each other.

We want to always stay together, so we read the scriptures, we listen to the prophet, and we will do what they say.

We will "seek learning, even by study and also by faith."

We value beauty.

We will share our blessings by serving others.

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DC 88:118, Jacob 2:17, DC 108:7, Hymn 219 (Grace Noll Crowell and Phillip Landrage, "Because I Have Been Given Much"), DC 88:133, DC 136:28