I read so many things in this and other papers that are controversial, dividing, and basically depressing. Thank you so much for uplifting me this morning. I need more little boosts like this that remind me how happy life can be when we live the gospel and focus on serving our Savior by serving His children. THANK YOU!

Gag! What a silly story. A bunch of youth in a ward would never do that. This ranks up there with Paul Dunn's inspiring stories - that all turned out to be FALSE!

As a mother of 7 boys who have had wonderful young men leaders that they have harassed, played with and learned to be men from, I can tell you that I would not doubt for 1 second that these young men would express themselves in this way. You might be surprised at the amount of dedication and love that a good leader will get from the youth of the church! "They may not remember what you say, but they will always remember the way you made them feel."

I'm finding it difficult to believe that anyone could be offended at anything in this story. I found the deacons' actions to typical of the age group, and certainly not what I would consider inappropriate. It was an inspiring story that shows the kind of relationship that a talented leader can develop with young men. Those who find fault with anything in this story need to lighten up a little (no... a lot!)

Toucan play your game: they were not "all false".
He was a great teacher and 98.75% of his work was amazing -- how many were nearly as effective? Do you know anyone like that? Are you?

But then he combined some of the stories, backdated and postdated and changed some locations and names, and I was devastated, for a while.

I was mostly hurt because the writer who brought the imperfections to light was a muckraking reporter for Student Life, who had nothing better to offer.

Then I woke up and realized there are only a very few, even of the generation who heard and read Elder Dunn's stories back then, who will go over to the Dark Side and wave the 'liar' flag, and yet never show greatness from their own lives as he did -- in so great a measure.

I always wondered why the Son of God tolerated a chosen leader who denied Him three times, another whose nickname was Doubting Thomas, another who betrayed him, and so on.

You've just illustrated/reminded us, the Lord works through imperfect mortals. Thanks for that.