JohnPAB

I'm the Teacher's Quorum president in my branch, I currently have 2 baptized young men at my responsibility. One of them particulary, is one of my best friends, but he's a bit inactive at the moment. He seems to be uninterested in the church, I know he has a testimony, but it seems like he doesn't care as much anymore, he misses sunday meetings and activites a lot. I try to be an example for him as best as I can, I even managed to start keeping the sunday, something I used to struggle with, and when he asks me to play some video game or something of the sort with him I tell him I can't because it's Sunday. It seems to make no difference. I'm currently alone in the Quorum presidency, should I call him as a counselor? Could the notion of responsibilites make him more interested in the Church? I don't know what I can do to help him, please advise.

I honestly don't really know the answer to your question, but usually, when a man is ordained to the priesthood, there is more than one on the laying of hands.

The way I see it, is that Elder Richards was expressing his opinion of why God would make someone "negro", because he couldn't understand how a loving God could do such a thing to one of his children without reason. And why was being a "negro" such a bad thing? Why couldn't "negros" receive the priesthood? Because the church needs to follow the laws of the country, and back then, "negros" didn't have equal rights to white people in America, which was where the Church was settled, something critics seem to overlook. Now, why I think God made some of his children "negros", differs from Elder's OPINION, I think it was very much the opposite, I think it was because they showed to be the most faithful, and God wanted to test them and trial them accordingly to their faith, and many "negro" members of the church were indeed faithful enough to endure, and I know that they received many eternal blessings for it.

Well, you can tell them that it isn't an american religion, I'm from Portugal, here we have thousands of members, and hundreds of youth. You didn't mention if you had a testimony, if you don't, you should work on getting one, I can tell you, it got IMPOSSIBLE for me to deny the church and not to go to Church every sunday after getting my testimony.

When people ask me that question, I always say, temples are a piece of heaven down here on Earth, when you're inside the temple, even just inside the temple grounds, you feel disconnected from the rest of the world, it's like you're looking down at Earth, you feel like you're somewhere higher. When I look at a temple, my first thought is that it doesn't seem to belong there.

Greetings brothers and sisters, I'm a 15 years old member from Portugal. I was born in a half recent mormon family, my father wasn't a member. I was baptized when I was 9 and have been an active member even since, and acquired a real testemony when I was almost 14. My father was baptized almost 2 years ago, and this year we went to the temple of Madrid to be sealed as a family for eternity, except for my brother, who became inactive shortly after my father was baptized. I joined because I wanted to have more contact with fellow mormons from different cultures, maybe learn a few things, and maybe even teach a few too, who knows. Hope I can have a good time around here. I'd like to leave you my testimony that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only church on Earth with the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, that it was restored by Joseph Smith, who was a prophet of God, who translated the Book of Mormon, which is a true account of the people of Christ who lived in America and a witness of Christ's glory in that same continent, that Christ lives even now, and that he loves us all and so does God, the father. I bare my personal testemony that prophet Thomas S. Monson is a true prophet of God, and so were the ones who preceded him, that the temples are holy buildings and that the ordinances made there are both true and eternal, that this is the glory and work of God. And especially, I bare testimony that families can be united for eternity. And all these things I know, for it has been confirmed to me by the spirit as a result of personal experiences, and I know that God knows it, and I shall not deny it. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.