What three words would you say best describe who you tried to be in life and how you want to be remembered?

Here's where I get to imagine how I wish I was.  The three words: "Father," "Teacher," "Disciple."

I'm going to cheat here a little and insist that the term "father" incorporates "husband."  You can't be one without the other.  My fatherhood cannot be comprehended without you mother's motherhood.  Of all the things important to me, none has been more important than raising a family together with your mother.  And there is nothing that I have succeeded at other than this.  David O McKay said that no success could compensate for failure in the home.  I would add the corollary, that success in the home will compensate for any and all other failure.  My children are my Mount Rushmore, and long after Rushmore has crumbled to dust, my posterity will continue righteously in the priesthood.

"Teacher" is also a cheat word because we are all teachers in all that we do.  I will not say that everyone I have taught has been better for my teaching.  So many would do well no matter who their teacher might have been.  But there are a few whose lives are better because I taught them.  This is why I teach.  And when I have been blessed to teach the gospel, my joy is full.

I want it to be said of me that I was a disciple of Christ.  When I got serious about finding a wife, my chief factor (the deal breaker) was her faith in Christ, or her desire to follow Christ.  Together Mother and I have done this, imperfectly, as all humans do.  It has taken me a lifetime to begin to follow Christ as one should.  No worries.  If in this life we learn to bend all of our will to do His will we have discovered the one great mystery, the one great secret that is the key to all others.  I want to be thought of as one who sat at the Savior's feet and listened to his teachings, and then went and did what I was taught.  I have not always been this, but through the miracle of repentance, I am becoming this.