"You are not just ordinary young women. You are choice spirits, many of you having been held back in reserve for almost 6,000 years to come forth in this day, at this time when the temptations, responsibilities, and opportunities are the very greatest...

"...I pray that you--the young and rising generation--will keep your bodies and minds clean, free from the condemnations of the world, that you will be fit and pure vessels to bear off the kingdom of God triumphant in preparation for the second coming of our Savior."

-President Ezra Taft Benson