Message for us ALL, no matter what our age!

In an address on November 1 to young adults all over the world, originating at BYU's Marriott Center and broadcast via Internet and satellite, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, said, "Discovering who we really are is part of this great adventure called life."

President Uchtdorf told of how airline pilots, though possibly fascinated by the sight of billowing storm clouds flashing with lightning, avoid them and the danger they present to their airplane.
"Isn't the same principle true when you see things that could cause spiritual harm?" he asked. "Temptation wouldn't be temptation if it didn't appear attractive, fascinating or fun. But, like the pilot approaching a storm, you need to learn to avoid it, no matter how beautiful or intriguing it may appear."

He told the young members that there are always voices that will insist that they are ugly ducklings who cannot be anything else. "But you know better," he said. "Because of the revealed word of a merciful God, you have seen your true reflection in the water and have glimpsed the eternal glory of that divine spirit within you. You are no ordinary beings, my beloved friends. You are glorious and eternal."

His reminder was that God's purpose for them is that they should be happy. He said, "It is my earnest prayer that the knowledge of who you are and what you may become will fill your souls with the peaceable love of God and that this will ignite within you a happiness worthy of your true heritage, for in truth you are princes and princesses, kings and queens."