Social Media and You:
Sharing the GospelTo Sweep the Earth As with a Flood
Elder David A. BednarAugust 19, 2014
BYU Education Week
“... available to us in this special season is a miraculous progression of innovations and inventions that have enabled and accelerated the
work of salvation, ... an almost endless list of technologies and
tools that bless our lives. All of these advancements are part of the Lord hastening His work in
the latter days.”
Elder Bednar, 2014(emphasis added)
We should take advantage of all these great discoveries, the accumulated
wisdom of ages, and give to our children the benefit of every branch of useful knowledge, to prepare them to step forward and efficiently do their
part in the great work.”
Brigham Young, 1862
In 1966, President David O. McKay prophesied scientific discoveries that “stagger the imagination”
would make possible the preaching of the gospel to every kindred,
tongue, and people.
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Social Media?
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"I believe that the Lord is anxious to put into our hands inventions of which we laymen have hardly had a
glimpse…”President Kimball, 1974
Many types of Social Media
You should at leastknow these
Social Media statsFacebook – 1.55 Billion monthly users
YouTube - 1 Billion monthly users
Twitter – 320 Million monthly users
Instagram – 400 Million monthly visitors
Pinterest – 100 Million monthly users
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Social MediaOpen your mouths and they shall be filled, and you shall
become even as Nephi of old…
D&C 33:8
Social MediaOpen you mouth and spare not…
D&C 33:9
Social MediaOpen your mouth in my cause, not fearing what man can do, for I am
with you…
D&C 33:11
You are like a Lifeboat
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Many need help around you
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But they don’t know where to find it when they need it the most
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So, talk with those within reach
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Be a friend. Help them
Be a refuge from the storm
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