Our Savior, shortly before His Crucifixion, said to His disciples: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  Ye are my friends."  Having been so richly blessed by Christ's friendship, I pray that we will now be to others what He is to us:  a true friend. At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend. 

Marlin K. Jensen
Friendship: A Gospel Principle
April, 1999 General Conference
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1999/04/friendship-a-gospel-principle?lang=eng