Flooding the Earth

One of my favorite general authorities in the LDS church is Elder Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The summer before I started school at BYU, Elder Bednar gave a talk during education week called, “To sweep the earth as with a flood”. In this talk, he talked about technology and a world with growing media. He encouraged all who listened to use this new media to spread the gospel. We’ve talked about this talk a lot in class and it is something that I could definitely be doing better, so this blog is in a way fulfilling it. In his talk, he talked about how the internet and new media is one of the adversary’s greatest new tools. For as much bad as new technology has, it has such a great potential for good too. For example, I’m convinced my iPhone can do almost anything a normal computer can. I have written papers, communicated with my older sister who is on a mission, and read my scriptures using it. Devices like iPhones and iPads are so useful, missionaries for the LDS church have also started to use them. I believe that technology is a miracle in itself. A miracle to me is something we know to be true without seeing it. I don’t know how all new technology works, but it does. People were gifted with knowledge they use to introduce new technologies that help others and save lives into the world. That in itself is a miracle. In a growing world, everyone has to adapt to new technologies because technology is changing every day and we shouldn’t be left behind.