If you've been on social media at all the past couple of weeks, or really in the past couple of

years, you know that when issues hit the internet, they tend to blow up like an explosive.

So when some really heated and emotionally charged current events started to blow up on social

media in the past week, I turned to the scriptures and to talks and sources of truth to try to find not only answers to my

questions, but how to appropriately share whatever God might want me to share. The answers that I

found were different than I expected, mostly centered around being a peacemaker. So that's what we're

going to talk all about today, the need for a peacemaker in this world, and how to become one.

So we had an eventful weekend that I actually lost a lot of sleep over and it started with Friday the announcement of

the overturn of Roe versus Wade. And I just observed how people dealt with that for the next

few days. And there was so much outrage and contention and fighting and a lot of negativity. And I understand there's a lot of feelings.

There's a lot of emotions. It's, you know, a weighty subject. But I thought a lot about not only

what my thoughts and feelings were on that issue, but also how interesting it is to see how our society

responds to things now versus before social media. And sometimes it really can feel like social

media is such an echo chamber and anything that pops up, other people start echoing it and

repeating things. And that can go either way. It can go

good or bad. And one of the things that I really focused on as I studied out in my mind and heart,

how to deal with all of this and how to be a force for good.

Honestly, one of the things that kept coming to me over and over was to be a peacemaker.

And I think that the world is lacking peacemakers right now.

And interestingly, in our last general conference, I felt like we heard so many messages about

being a peacemaker.

I felt like that was a theme.

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