

Moral and physical danger exists almost everywhere around you and temptations of a dozen kinds present themselves daily, yet most of you strive to do what is right. Traditional joking aside about the harrowing experience of raising teenagers, I want to say to my own granddaughter and the vast majority of the youth of the Church whom I meet around the world how extraordinarily proud we are of you. I got back in bed and pulled the covers over my head. I thought about it for a minute and then did what any responsible, dignified adult would do. I arose one morning all bright eyed and bushy tailed, greeted the dawn with a smile-only to realize suddenly that with the birthday to be celebrated that day I now had a teenage grandchild. Father Time played a rude trick on me just a few months ago.
