@Latterdaytruth Help them do hard things and be uncomfortable. With no scouting program in place, you’re gonna have to dig hard and convince parents that they need to be uncomfortable and stress themselves a little.
@Mormonger Deuteronomy 4:2 instructs, "You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you." Written between 640 and 609 BCE. Is everything after this verse made up? I don’t think so.
@ldsfootnotes President Hinkley clearly didn’t think Elizabeth Smart was guilty of unchasity when she was raped by her kidnapper. She was too young and couldn’t fight that guy. She is lucky to be alive.
@DehlinMillstone Kind of like Americans who died fighting for Britain in 1940 before the US entered the war. Or the American pilots who fought Imperial Japan in China before the US entered the war.
“This is a great occasion for us and we’re just very pleased. … We are going to be very good citizens, good neighbors, good friends. … We feel comfortable being with people of different faiths but who have accountability to God.”
—Elder Quentin L. Cook