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Troy Smith Ulisses Soares
Devotional by Ulisses Soares | January 29, 2023

"I also encourage you not to be afraid to live by what you know is true because the Lord will be with you and help you in your challenging circumstances. In the scriptures, we learn about courageous people who lived by their beliefs, even after being threatened with being killed. Daniel, the Old Testament prophet, is one example of that."
The social and political tumult we’ve witnessed in the United States and around the world this century has people questioning what is happening. Some see a parallel between our Internet age and the era following the Gutenberg Press. Both inventions made it cheap and easy to spread opinions that challenge the common ideas that bind a society together and make cooperation and community possible (Gurri 2018). It is good that ideas are challenged, and oppressive ideas give way to better things. But what is “better”?
Elder Ulisses Soares
Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

June 07, 2017