I signed up to help with nursery in our ward this past month because one of my good friends Ryan Castro promised to be there. I could not resist the opportunity to get out of my house and spend some time with him, even if it was while wrangling a rambunctious group of kiddos. I was happy to have the companionship of other great brethren in my ward: Joe Fernandez, John Thurston, and Mason Bates. You guys are awesome.
Anywho, Ryan and I were chatting about his desire to serve on Jury-duty, which lead to talking about our times and how scary things are. I mentioned how we may be expecting plagues like the Biblical ones, such as locus, but our plagues are here, like the plague of complacency. He added the plague of pornography. I said of self love and materialism.I must be the one to escape these by not letting myself go the way of the world, but being peculiar with my values and beliefs in a right and wrong.
There is the plague of freedom with no strings attached, in 'A Touch of Wonder' the chapter "Freedom, the double edged Sword" covers this topic by explaining that other generations had the task of securing freedom, ours is the harder task to live with it. Before reading the explanation in the book I would have disagreed, take a look and see what you think.
My Mission President Call, told us that people fall away from their beliefs because of three things, I believe these sum up the plagues of our day:
1.power
1.sex
3, money
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