If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.

I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.

We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.

We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.