Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke at Education Week at BYU on August 19, 2014. If you have not heard his message, I encourage you to check it out on lds.org.
Near the end of his message, after Elder Bednar presents the basic guidelines to using social media to share gospel messages, he "exhorts [us] to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truth... and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood."
But what really stood out to me was his next sentence: "I pray we will not simply participate in a flash flood that rises swiftly and then recedes just as rapidly." Many times, we are counseled by our prophets and apostles to do something and hopefully we always take that counsel to heart and try to become better. The same is with this message. Elder Bednar counseled us to fill social media with "messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthy." But this cannot be a one time thing. It is not enough that we post something once and say we are done. We have to be consistent and though we may feel that our individual posts may not be having a lot of impact, the collective posts of everyone combined can produce the flood of truth and righteousness the earth is so desperately waiting for.
So as an echo to Elder Bednar's challenge, let's "Sweep the earth as with a flood!"
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