Welcoming Correction

I really enjoyed Robert D. Hales talk during the Sunday session. He talked mostly about Christian courage. I enjoyed his talk because he pointed out many valid points that made sense but we don’t always think about. Sometimes we as members of the church are so ready to defend the church when a non-member accuses us or offends us by the things they say about our church. But we aren’t supposed to fire back at them and shoot them down. Some may say that it makes us seem weak when we don’t defend our religion, but really it’s Christian courage. We need to think about how Christ acted when he was confronted and really we should act like he did. This was really a correction talk for me especially back in my high school, because of the many misconceptions that people had about our church. I had many kids in my English class who were told certain things about Mormons that they believed with a passion that were very untrue. Many times I was offended because of the things that they would say and at times I fired back at their accusations. So this talk seemed to speak to me, even though I’m here at BYU now and it seems as if I won’t get an experience like that around here, I know how I should deal with it in the future.