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MormonTimes.com: Elder Nelson urges CES listeners to embrace worthy music

Published: Monday, May 5, 2008 12:40 a.m. MDT
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Young adults need to value the power of worthy and uplifting music and "delete the rubbish from your minds and your iPods," said Elder Russell M. Nelson at the Church Education Fireside on Sunday.

In a program that was broadcast from the Marriot Center on the BYU campus in Provo, Utah, Elder Nelson, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said that "music provides power for us to express prayerful thoughts and bear testimony of sacred truths."

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