From D. Kelly Ogden and his book “8 Mighty Changes God Wants for You Before You Get to Heaven”:
We believe that prayer follows four basic steps: We address our Heavenly Father—not the “Lord,” as that term in common Latter-day-Saint usage refers to the second member of the Godhead, our Savior, and we are not praying to him, we are praying to our Father in the Savior’s name. We address the Father in a reverent, respectful tone (as we hear Him addressed in the Holy Temple, for example). Then we thank him for the blessings we enjoy. We ask for things we feel we need. And finally we close in the name of Jesus Christ, and say “Amen.”
We also use the language of prayer such as thee, thou, they, and thine. Our leaders have taught that those terms constitute a reverential way of speaking with our Father in Heaven—different from the way we talk with anyone else. Those who know various world languages could point out that in some languages the pronouns we use in prayer are the formal manner of speaking to someone, while other languages use informal terms. We don’t speak as we do in prayer because of linguistics; we’re simply; we’re simply following the pattern we have been taught to use, in English, when speaking to our Father.
Some people come into the Church from other churches and are accustomed to using you and your. Is that a sin? Certainly not, but we are encouraged to learn as quickly as possible the proper form of address in prayer. And these forms are not easy at times. We say, “you can” but, in prayer, “thou canst”; “you will” but, in prayer, “thou wilt”: you do, but in prayer “thou doest” or “thou dost.” So it takes some practice. If you are not acquainted with those forms, how do you learn them? From practice, listening to others pray who do use the correct form, and from studying the correct form, and from studying the scriptures—that is in the language of our King James Bible and the scriptures the Restoration.~~~D. Kelly.Ogden, “Mighty Changes God Wants for You” (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2004), p.27-28
