The new pamphlet from the LDS Church emphasizes choice over a checklist, and kids agree it’s better than the old “For the Strength of You” approach of “don’t screw up, or it’ll ruin your life.”
It emphasizes choice over a checklist, and kids agree it’s better than the old “For the Strength of You” approach of “don’t screw up, or it’ll ruin your life.”
leaves the impression that “dress and appearance” are among the top topics, while “repentance is buried in the last third.” Her leaders imposed particularly strict rules about shorts and swimwear during the yearly summer girls camp, she says. Two-piece swimsuits were allowed, but only if they were “high-waisted.”Even after dating was allowed for 16-year-olds, the leaders taught the girls that “group dates” were preferred, Tayler says, and suggested a “fun activity” would be outings to the temple for proxy baptisms.
Tattoos, for example, were seen as “trivial” and verboten in the old pamphlet, he says, but to “some Indigenous groups, they are very important and even sacred.” The pamphlet “will play out well here in the Ozarks and probably keep some of the youth from walking out the door when they turn 18,” Hoyt says. “At the very least, I think the new pamphlet allows them to see a place for themselves within the church even when they don’t necessarily live out the principles exactly like their friends or classmates.”
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