"Unto" and "Recieive"

This post has been sitting on my draft board for three days now.  I couldn't figure out how to end it.  But maybe that last line is all I really needed to say.  

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Know this, that ev'ry soul is free

To choose his life and what he'll be;

For this eternal truth is giv'n:

That God will force no man to heav'n.

- Hymn 240

Perhaps one of the hardest discoveries we learn in the family setting is that no one can make anyone believe or do anything. 

[We can] call, persuade, direct aright,

And bless with wisdom, love, and light,

In nameless ways be good and kind,

But never force the human mind.

This is a good thing though because agency is what we fought for, right?  It is just difficult when we see loved ones fighting against the very things that will make them free!  And nothing can be more heart-wrenching when we have done everything we could  to convince them, persuade them, with wisdom, love, and light or  when we have exhausted all our energies and still "they would not."  

Notice the word that occurs in these two scripture references when King Benjamin addresses his people: It says he "speaks unto" -  Mosiah 2:1, Mosiah 3:1, -  

The word is "unto".... not "into". It is placed before us, it connotes "personal choice". 

As I pondered on this and other scriptures that use the word "unto",  I noticed  another significant word "receive".

"If he come unto you receive him" -  Colossians 4:10

"him whom I have appointed unto you to receive" - D&C 43:2 

Also, when we were confirmed a member of the Church we hear the words in the blessing  "and say unto you receive the Holy Ghost" - John 20:22 

How many thousands of times do we hear in the Gospel the word "receive"?  
What does it mean especially in terms of receiving the Holy Ghost? receiving Christ, receiving a blessing...     Or receiving His image in our countenance ?