Dare to Stand Alone

                      "May we ever be courageous and be prepared to stand for what we believe."

Hello from Nicaragua. I've had a couple experiences where I because of my beliefs and my standards have had to stand alone. I've made it a importance to have my computer with me every movie night when we pick out movies. One night, 3 out of the 12 movies that were picked were not rated R. I sat there thinking to myself, If it is R then I can go do something else. Its no big deal. I've made my standards known to the people around me. One of the volunteers turned to me and asked, "Which movies can you watch?" I stopped for a second and was puzzled, I then quickly told which ones and we voted and the movie we watched was not R and it won by one point. I didn't stand alone but was lucky enough to have someone not of my faith stand with me.

The moral of the story is.. make it known of who you are and never waiver. Dare to stand alone.
"Dare to be a Mormon; Dare to stand alone. Dare to have a purpose firm; Dare to make it known."
Dare to do great things.

President Monson gave a talk the priesthood session of the October 2011 conference. If you haven't read this talk I would urge you to do so. Its amazing. He says, "May we ever be courageous and prepared to stand for what we believe, and if we must stand alone in the process, may we do so courageously, strengthened by the knowledge that in reality we are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven."
These last few posts have been really religious but no matter what you believe you should always dare to stand alone. Dare to do great things. Be a source of good in a world where bad is on every headline.

Mormon Message: http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages?lang=eng#dare-to-stand-alone
Talk: http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/dare-to-stand-alone?lang=eng&query=dare+stand+alone