When a bishop is trying to help a person come back from serious involvement with pornography, the most important thing they can teach the individual is the nature of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When we think of the Atonement, we almost always think of His suffering for our sins of which we repent and, of course, also His Resurrection. But beyond that, He suffered for and experienced all the experiences of mortality. He experienced temptation. He experienced depression and sorrow and disappointment and grief and all of these human experiences that we have that are part of mortality. And we learn from Alma chapter 7, beginning at verse 11, that He experienced all of our afflictions, that He would know how to succor us. Now, I believe that a bishop needs to be sure to teach that kind of understanding of the Atonement to a person who is experiencing all kinds of emotions and disappointments and difficulties apart from sin. All of this is apart from confessing for sins. It's reaching out for help. I have a strong witness that with these difficult subjects and important topics, it's important to remember that Jesus Christ is at the heart of the answer to every question. And when we think about pornography, I have often, in my service as a bishop or my service as a mission president, working with my own family, counseling people who deal with this issue in their lives--that they need offsets to offset their affliction. And service, to me, has always been a great remedy for all kinds of afflictions. I've often thought of King Benjamin's counsel to us in the book of Mosiah, chapter 2, verse 17, where he says this: "And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God." And so not only is service a good way to give repentant restitution, but it's also a great way to show our love to God and Jesus Christ by engaging ourselves in a selfless way for the benefit of our wife, our husband, our children, or our friends and neighbors. And in many times, I would go even one step further and say the scriptures are replete with examples of giving anonymous service, where people don't even have to know why you're giving this service or who's giving it--that you just do it and you fill some of your time, some of what otherwise may be idle time, to go out and serve people. That, for me, has always been great advice, great counsel. And youth and others come back and say, "I loved filling my time, and will do so in the future, with service."