Sunday the Relief Society lesson was good. The sister talked about how when she was a teenager she spent every weekend at home. That her friends never invited her to parties because she didn't drink. She even considered drinking just so she could feel included. Years later she met a friend from high school and confided in the friend how no one wanted her around. The friend said, "Don't you know? Don't you know that the reason we didn't want you around was because we felt ashamed and guilty and didn't want to do that in front of you?" This sister said she was stunned. She couldn't believe that her standards that she almost compromised were that infulential to those around her and it gave her a different persepctive.
She then asked one of the girls that has just graduated from High School to tell what she did when she was placed in situations where she didn't want to be. She said, "Sometimes I would just walk away if I could. I would really choose who I wanted to spend my time with and if they didn't respect my values then they were not good friends. One time there was a guy behind me who kept talking inappropriatly. I had asked him politly a couple of times to stop but he wouldn't. So I said a prayer and had the thought that I should sing a hymn. I didn't think it would work but I tried it and it worked!! I found that I could be my own light. That there could be evil around me but that I could shine in my little area, my little influence could protect me from those around me. That is why we need seminary and all these things like prayer and scripture study so that we have our own light to withstand the darkness around us."
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