"Positive Uses of the Internet"

"Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection." (D&C 130:18)

"We live in what is described as the period of the most enlightenment since the creation of the world.  Scientific achievements of today are staggering to the human mind." (Elder Howard W. Hunter, Of the World or of the Kingdom?, January 1974)

What a wonderful world in which we and our loved ones live!

What a miraculous blessing to talk "face to face," in real time, with friends and family across the globe!  To send and receive gifts across continents.  To have a near limitless store of knowledge and learning at our fingertips.  To watch as the world grows daily smaller and more interconnected.

Thank Heaven for papyrus, for the printing press, for the internet, and for the divine guidance to use these technical revelations for the benefit of man.

And when it comes to our modern-day Gutenberg revolution, Ms. Elizabeth Stitt provides a wonderful article on "Positive Uses of the Internet" in the June 2010 issue of the Liahona:

http://lds.org/liahona/2010/06/positive-uses-of-the-internet?lang=eng

May we heed the call of latter-day Apostles of Christ to "makes sure that the choices [we] make in the use of new media are choices that expand [our] mind[s], increase [our] opportunities, and feed [our] souls." (Elder M. Russell Ballard, Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet, July 2008)