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Elder Gerrit W. Gong Two Young Women and Covenants Will of the Quorum of the Twelve Describe Their Journeys Teach You About Being Apostles YOUTH MAGAZINE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS AUGUST 2018 THENew Era A CAUSE MEET CHOOSE, PREPARE, SERVE FOR CELEBRATION ELDER GONG pp. 20–33 p. 2 pp. 16, 49 The First Presidency: Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, Henry B. Eyring The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: M. Russell Ballard, Jeffrey R. Holland, Dieter F. HAVE YOU ENLISTED? Uchtdorf, David A. Bednar, Quentin L. Cook, D. Todd Christofferson, Neil L. Andersen, Ronald A. Rasband, Gary E. Stevenson, Dale G. Renlund, Gerrit W. Gong, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR! Ulisses Soares Editor: Hugo E. Martinez Assistant Editors: Randall K. Bennett, Becky Craven Tell us about your experiences as you accept Advisers: Brian K. Ashton, Bonnie H. Cordon, President Nelson’s invitation to enlist in the LeGrand R. Curtis Jr., Edward Dube, Sharon Eubank, youth battalion of the Lord. Donald L. 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North Temple St., FACILITIES: Send address corrections to Distribution Services, Church Magazines, P.O. Box 26368, Salt Rm. 2377, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-0024, USA. Lake City, UT 84126-0368, USA. A CAUSE MEET For return, include a self-addressed, stamped CHOOSE, PREPARE, SERVE FOR CELEBRATION ELDER GONG pp. 20–33 p. 2 pp. 16, 49 envelope. Canada Post Information: Publication Agreement #40017431. New Era WHAT’S INSIDE THE MONTHLY YOUTH MAGAZINE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS August 2018 • Volume 48 • Number 8 FEATURES 2 Be One 10 Our Plan to Beat the Odds “A Cause for Celebration” They knew their marriage and “Building Bridges”— could work despite their messages from the 40th an- parents’ divorces. niversary of the revelation ETERNAL on the priesthood. TEMPLE MARRIAGE President Dallin H. Oaks President Russell M. Nelson 7 Lock-Screen Scriptures She had an idea to remem- 10 ber the scriptures even when she was busy. 13 The Unexpected Signal His text messages showed PREPARE FOR YOUR MISSION 8 Worldwide Youth that he was getting out of Devotional the spiritual “dead spaces.” Will you help gather Israel? 16 Our Savior Stands with Us 20 Sister to Sister 30 5 Things the Doctrine Meet Elder Gerrit W. Gong Two young women and Covenants Will of the Quorum of the Twelve describe their journeys Teach You about Being Apostles. deciding to serve—and a Missionary not to serve—a mission. Learn about missionary 18 Two Strokes for Integrity service from the book 24 Before You Are Called you’ll study in seminary. Nobody saw the muffed to Serve tap-ins. So would they See what you’ll be Calming My still count? 32 asked about before you Missionary Nerves serve a mission. A young woman deals 34 6 Reasons We Really with a sudden bout of Do Need the Church 29 Could I Serve There? anxiety as she begins Check out these six Serving a mission with her mission. reasons why the Church is epilepsy. 2 indispensable in your life. MORMONAD PLUS . BUY 12 MORMONAD THEIR FRUIT? 38 @LDSYOUTH 40 FUN STOP 42 Q&A 44 DOCTRINAL MASTERY 45 WHO KNEW? 46 FIRM FOUNDATIONS 48 LAST WORD WHEN THE WORLD TRIES TO BLEND EVIL AND GOOD, 49 ABOUT AN APOSTLE THE RESULT IS ALWAYS ONE BAD APPLE. (See Matthew 7:16–20; Isaiah 5:20; and 2 Nephi 15:20.) 12 GETTY IMAGES BY ILLUSTRATION PHOTO 46 August 2018 1 From an address given at “Be One,” the 40th anniversary celebration of the 1978 revelation on the priesthood, on June 1, 2018. A Cause for Celebration For Latter-day Saints who were adults at that time, the 1978 revelation By President on the priesthood was an event that is etched in memory. Dallin H. Oaks First Counselor in the First Presidency I. The news reached me on a telephone that seldom rang. My two sons and I were working in the yard of a mountain home we built as a place of retreat from my heavy responsibilities as president of Brigham Young University. The caller was Elder Boyd K. Packer. He told me about the revelation on the priesthood, which was just being announced. We exchanged expressions of joy, and I walked back to my work. I sat down on the pile of dirt we had been moving and beckoned to my sons. As I told them that all worthy male mem- bers of the Church could now be ordained to the priesthood, I wept for joy. Why was the revelation on the priesthood such an occasion of joy? As a young man studying and working in the legal profession, I lived in the Midwestern and Eastern regions of the United States for 17 years. I had observed and shared the pain and frustration experienced by those who suffered these restrictions and those who observed them, criticized them, and sought for reasons. I studied the reasons then being given and could not feel confirmation about the truth of any of them. As part of my prayer- ful study, I learned that, in general, the Lord seldom gives reasons for the commandments and directions He gives to His servants. I determined to be loyal to our prophetic leaders and to pray—as promised from the begin- ning of these restrictions—that the day would come when all would enjoy the blessings of priesthood and temple. Now, on June 8, 1978, that day had come, and I wept for joy. SMITH CHRISTINA BY PHOTOGRAPHS 2 New Era August 2018 3 II. When we consider what has happened spoken through His prophet, and restrictions. But most in the Church, and is happening in The Church of His Church obeyed. including its senior leadership, have Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in In contrast, changes in the hearts concentrated on the opportunities of the lives of its members since 1978, we and practices of individual members the future rather than the disappoint- all have cause for celebration. did not come suddenly and universally. ments of the past. Most have trusted Institutionally, the Church reacted Some accepted the effects of the reve- the wisdom and timing of the Lord and swiftly to the revelation on the priest- lation immediately and gracefully, some accepted the directions of His prophet. hood. Ordinations and temple rec- accepted gradually, and some, in their In doing so, we have realized the eternal ommends came immediately. The personal lives, continued the attitudes significance of His prophetic teaching reasons that had been given to try of racism that have been painful to so that “one being is as precious in his sight to explain the prior restrictions on many throughout the world, including as the other” ( Jacob 2:21). In doing so, members of African ancestry—even the past 40 years. Some have wanted we have received new impetus to fulfill those previously voiced by revered to look back, concentrating attention the command of the Lord Jesus Christ Church leaders—were promptly and on reexamining the past, including that we are to teach the everlasting gos- publicly disavowed.
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