What’s Up?

“What’s Up?” New Era, May 2009, 38–39

What’s Up?

They Spoke to Us

Many general conference talks have messages directed to you. Here are just a few examples.

Talking about the Internet, President Monson says, “On one hand, it provides nearly limitless opportunities for acquiring useful and important information.” But he also warns of those who use the Internet for “evil and degrading purposes” that can “literally destroy the spirit.” Read the prophet’s counsel about the Internet in “Until We Meet Again.”
“You cannot do a Google search to gain a testimony,” says Elder M. Russell Ballard. He explains that there is no new technology for getting a testmony. Read about gaining a testimony in his talk “Learning the Lessons of the Past.”
What kind of young women are young men really attracted to? Sister Elaine S. Dalton reveals one of the hidden “boy secrets” and talks about a return to the value of virtue in “Come Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the Lord.”
What do you do as a junior home teaching companion? What do you do if one of your friends strays from the Church? Read what President Henry B. Eyring says about these situations in his talk “Man Down!”
“Someone has called this the ‘me’ generation,” says Elder Dallin H. Oaks. But he adds, “As a group, Latter-day Saints are … unique in the extent of their unselfish service.” Read Elder Oaks’s talk “Unselfish Service.”

To read conference experiences by youth, go to newera.lds.org. Read all the conference talks in the May Ensign and Liahona magazines. You can also read, listen to, or watch these talks online at www.lds.org.

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