Love one another

 

Almost halfway this semester, and this week I just learned a lot from Brother Williams. Actually, the subject was a little hard to discuss because often someone gets offended. We were talking about the LGBT community and looking at some theories which is the attempt to explain a phenomena. So, the discussing during class was to observe some theories that explain how people think a homosexual thought starts and what role has the family during that process. This is a good thing to know and learn because in our society everybody has an opinion about every topic right now, and often, lack of evidence or support in our opinion can be something dangerous, even as bad as fake news.

This is something we are facing a lot in my country (Brazil) right now, even politics are saying fake news in order to obtain votes and be elected, so now there is a chaos over there.

When you learn something in college, you see that you need proof of evidence about what you are talking. We saw earlier this semester what can happen with a nation if there is lack of evidence or a small sample survey.

I remember that when I was a little kid, we used to trust in news at Tv, and newspaper, but now we have to pay attention in what is true and what is false.

I have no doubt that this whole situation with fake news is something bad for the LGBT community. But this is not the only thig. Today we have internet, and people use to say that internet is a free land, this means it’s a place you can say, write, and also offend other the way you want at any convenient time. People can just throw all their hate against anybody. That’s just possible because you can be anonymous in internet and nobody will never find you. I just can’t imagine how these minorities, like the LGBT community feel when someone is disrespectful or just been mean with them.

I had a good friend many years ago, in my high school and his name is Andres, he was really funny and kind with all our classmates, we could always trust him and rely on him in every time we needed. His family was amazing, and provides everything for him. He was one of my best friends. When I went to my mission, we just lost contact and stopped talking, and when I return to Sao Paulo, I found that he became gay. If say that I could not imagine that, I would be lying, because we always had this tendency to be homosexual, be he never said nothing to me or his family. I guess it was something hard to him to say to their parents, and I feel a little sad because I was not there to support or maybe say something to him that perhaps would make him happy. Now we are just friends on facebook, and I know he is a great guy, and I know he is happy, but for sure I regret I never talked about the church with him. I`m not saying that he would accept the church or could find a girlfriend, but I am church that he could feel peace and could find help from the priesthood leaders that we have. I hope we can meet again and see how life is going.

So the must important thing I learned this week is that some things that happens in our family has a big role in what we will become, so let us try to be our best.