Why I’m so grateful someone pushed through awkwardness to serve

Welcome back! We hope your 10-day social media fast was enlightening and spiritually fulfilling as you followed the words of our prophet, President Nelson, and avoided negative influences in your life and took note of the positive ones.

"It’s not unusual for parents and siblings and aunts and uncles, and grandparents to come and see a missionary off or to welcome them back," said Spencer Fluhman, director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. "It’s normal to come down the escalator from a secure area in the Salt Lake International airport, depending on the time of day and see hundreds of family members waiting to see their returning missionary son or daughter."

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“For me, looking backward from the future is a remembrance of things to come,” Elder Gong said. “It is an invitation to prepare now for a future that will be here tomorrow."

President Nelson recently challenged the sisters in the Church to fast from social media (or any media “that bring negative and impure thoughts”) for 10 days. He invited us to participate and then evaluate the changes we would see in our lives at the end of the fast.

Editor’s Note: This article is not intended to be a political statement but rather an introduction to Latter-day Saints who are impacted by this issue.

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NBA player Jabari Parker was in attendance at the “Be One” celebration where Oba Bonner performed with his family. And when the two later collaborated to create a music video, it was a result of “musical matchmaking” by their older brothers, Christian Parker and Yahosh Bonner.