{"id":691,"date":"2013-11-15T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/2013\/11\/15\/randall-l-ridd\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:05:03","slug":"randall-l-ridd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/2013\/11\/15\/randall-l-ridd\/","title":{"rendered":"Randall\u00a0L. Ridd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Randall L. Ridd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second Counselor in the General Presidency of the Young Men (October 5, 2013 &#8211; April 4, 2015)<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Conference Addresses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">April 2014 General Conference<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidson-law.net\/CR\/2014%20April%200303%20RiddRL%20YM.pdf\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">The Choice Generation<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">&#8220;But this evening I would like to address you as the \u201cchoice generation\u201d because never before in history have individuals been blessed with so many choices. More choices mean more opportunities; more opportunities mean more potential to do good and, unfortunately, evil. I believe that God sent you here at this time because He trusts you to successfully discern among the mind-boggling choices available.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">&#8220;Satan wants to control your agency so he can control what you become. He knows that one of the best ways to do this is by trapping you with addictive behavior. Your choices determine whether technology will empower you or enslave you.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">&#8220;Every time you plug in your phone, use it as a reminder to ask yourself if you have plugged in to the most important source of spiritual power\u2014prayer and scripture study, which will charge you with inspiration through the Holy Ghost.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\">&#8220;Don\u2019t do dumb things with your smartphone.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Articles in Church Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Publications and Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall L. Ridd Second Counselor in the General Presidency of the Young Men (October 5, 2013 &#8211; April 4, 2015) General Conference Addresses April 2014 General Conference The Choice Generation &#8220;But this evening I would like to address you as the \u201cchoice generation\u201d because never before in history have individuals been blessed with so many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c90-former"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidson-law.net\/gospelstudy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}