Dear Reader,
Yes, I love Taylor Swift. Sue me. Once upon a time I was convinced I was going to marry her. That was way back in middle school. Maybe it was high school. Memory does not serve well at the moment. The lyrics made me ponder on the counsel given many times through my youth. I will do my best to share this counsel and where it comes from.
Many times my advisers in young men groups and church activities have told me, "Get married fast after your mission. Live worthily, get engaged fast, make the engagement short and do it at the right time." That is the advice my young men group adviser gave when my friends and I were 15. Richard G. Scott, an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, talks about getting married young and how we are counseled to do so as Latter-day Saints. (LDS General Conference, April 2011)
Get married. It is a commandment.
I want explore a little bit about this commandment and how we should fulfill it. As far as I am aware, nowhere in the scriptures do God and Christ say, "Thou Shalt be married before thou art 30 years of age." In fact, from my understanding of the Gospel, one should be married when they are ready to do so. The ready part is the hard part to figure out for most. Despite that, let me repeat the statement from early. Getting married is a commandment. That much is certain.
Getting on to the main point of what I thought while listening to Taylor Swift today, there were many things that came to mind about when and how I had met several different girls whom I have considered marrying. I was young when I met each and every one of them. Even now, I am still young (we won't talk about how young...) Let me tell you some stories.
One girl I met in my algebra class. Another was in my ward at BYU. There is another that I met in the bookstore. One of them was a blind date. The list also includes a girl who I met in high school. A violinist also comes to mind.
Why do you need to know about all of them? It is where I met them. They come from all over the place. That shows that finding the right person is not hard when you are looking. Being the right person is a totally different story. I will share more about that in another post later on this month. Moving on to the other thing they all have in common, I can say that I met all of these girls before I was 22 (I met the last one a month after turning 21). I was YOUNG. Should someone get married that young? There are many people who do. What do you think?
Yes, I love Taylor Swift. Sue me. Once upon a time I was convinced I was going to marry her. That was way back in middle school. Maybe it was high school. Memory does not serve well at the moment. The lyrics made me ponder on the counsel given many times through my youth. I will do my best to share this counsel and where it comes from.
Many times my advisers in young men groups and church activities have told me, "Get married fast after your mission. Live worthily, get engaged fast, make the engagement short and do it at the right time." That is the advice my young men group adviser gave when my friends and I were 15. Richard G. Scott, an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, talks about getting married young and how we are counseled to do so as Latter-day Saints. (LDS General Conference, April 2011)
Get married. It is a commandment.
I want explore a little bit about this commandment and how we should fulfill it. As far as I am aware, nowhere in the scriptures do God and Christ say, "Thou Shalt be married before thou art 30 years of age." In fact, from my understanding of the Gospel, one should be married when they are ready to do so. The ready part is the hard part to figure out for most. Despite that, let me repeat the statement from early. Getting married is a commandment. That much is certain.
Getting on to the main point of what I thought while listening to Taylor Swift today, there were many things that came to mind about when and how I had met several different girls whom I have considered marrying. I was young when I met each and every one of them. Even now, I am still young (we won't talk about how young...) Let me tell you some stories.
One girl I met in my algebra class. Another was in my ward at BYU. There is another that I met in the bookstore. One of them was a blind date. The list also includes a girl who I met in high school. A violinist also comes to mind.
Why do you need to know about all of them? It is where I met them. They come from all over the place. That shows that finding the right person is not hard when you are looking. Being the right person is a totally different story. I will share more about that in another post later on this month. Moving on to the other thing they all have in common, I can say that I met all of these girls before I was 22 (I met the last one a month after turning 21). I was YOUNG. Should someone get married that young? There are many people who do. What do you think?
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