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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"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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