Can you think of a general conference talk that focused on the idea of unity? About how we need to let our love for each other overcome our differences?
Here are a couple of unique ways youth have showed that they’re trying to do just that!
Safety Pin Friends
These friends came from different family situations and backgrounds, but they all cared about each other and wanted to strengthen their friendship.
When one of them was having a particularly hard time at home. She told them she sometimes wished she could disappear but kept her feelings hidden behind a smile because she was worried that others would judge her.
Her friends wanted her to know that she was safe with them and that the world was a better place because she was in it. So they came up with a plan: they would wear safety pins!
Each of them wore a safety pin on their clothes each day to remind her, and each other, that they were committed to creating a safe, secure, trustworthy friendship—and that they wanted each other to stick around.
Years later, this young woman still remembers her safety-pin friends and is grateful for the security she felt knowing that they cared about her.1
S-O-C-K-S of Love
Another group of young women wore crazy decorated socks to remind them to be kind. In English, the word “socks” spelled an acronym for “Sisters of Courage, Kindness, and Service.”
One day they saw a young woman at a stake activity who seemed to be searching for friends. They invited her to sit in their row—and a friendship was born!
This woman ended up decorating her own pairs of crazy socks and wearing them so that she could also remember to be extra kind each day.2
A Code of Your Own
Notes
1. Adapted from “Are you a Safety-Pin Friend?”
2. Adapted from “S.O.C.K.S. Rock!”