“Youth,” Liahona, July 2020
Youth
Photograph by Raul Sandoval
More than anything, I love to cook. I make pastries, cupcakes, little cookies, meat and rice dishes—anything, really! I also like to teach classes. I love it whenever I’m invited to teach a Young Women class.
I came to the FSY conference because I had a question I wanted answered. I have a scholarship to go to college, but I feel that I should serve a mission. If I go, I’ll lose my scholarship. But if I stay and become a teacher, I can work and pay for my schooling at the same time. During FSY, one sister talked about her patriarchal blessing. I’m preparing to receive my own patriarchal blessing now, and I hope that when I receive it, I will know better what Heavenly Father has planned for me. I love the youth programs and FSY because they strengthen youth. Because the truth is, we all need peace.
For a while after I was baptized, I would stop going to church, then go back for a while, then stop again. But members of the ward visited me and invited me to come back. They told me the Church and the members missed and needed me. I decided to come back, and I’ve been active ever since. I realized how much I needed the Church. I can pray to Heavenly Father and feel good, and I can feel the Spirit. And so here I am!
Adriana T. (far left), age 17, Dominican Republic