Look, I told you that my moral foundation, my character and everything, I owe to the church, for sure, although I don’t agree with a lot of things, I owe a lot to it. Now, these days I get emotional, I seek social incentives that my family lives. Like when my niece went on a mission, oh, I helped, and encouraged her.
Now, speaking of that, I think that if I had remained firm in the church, despite everything, and tried to sort my life out, I think I would be much better now. …was in college, upon finishing and leaving, my mother always used to say, “Look, the church also hires architects.” Then I said, “Wow.” But she said right away, “But you have to be active, you have to have this, you have to have that, you have to have gone through the temple.” I said, “Well, then this job isn’t for me, is it?”
But I hope that this interview could help someone who at some point feels weak or alone.
I don’t know how this works—if people are going to read this interview or listen to it. But, I hope it will help someone, but may this story be of one more member of a country far from where the church originated, who also had their flaws, and who today says what he’s courageous enough to─and it’s not just courage—but it’s the duty to speak for the moral foundation that comes from the church. I wanted ─ if there’s nothing else you want to say ─, I wanted to conclude with this sentence, that my whole foundation, what I am today, I owe to what they taught me in those days that, even though I didn’t want to attend classes, that little bit that we pick up here and there, but keep learning, learning, learning, was very, very nice. And that someday I will have to answer for this, and I hope it wasn’t so serious. I try to be a good person, not causing harm to anyone, not wishing harm to anyone, being less selfish, being less jealous, being less proud, and, above all, being more loving. Because Jesus came here for one reason only: to teach the laws of love, nothing more. His blood was shed on this Earth for this—so that He could teach me that.