You can keep on quoting David O McKay's talks or Ezra Taft Benson's talks in General Conference and you can keep on whining about how today's leaders don't want to do what President McKay and Benson did.Sirocco wrote:I think if they kept up with that US obsessiveness the church would not be nearly as worldwide as it is today.lundbaek wrote:I wonder what might be different today if local leaders, especially bishops and stake presidents in the United States had followed up a lot better in support of the words of Presidents McKay, Clark, Romney and Benson to members of the Church about what we could do to prevent the destruction of America.
They did so when the Church was largely American (and in the case of David O McKay) the only stakes in the entire world were English speaking. Even when President Benson gave his talk on the Constitution in 1987 the Church was still roughly 60 percent American.
That number is now 42 percent and now continues to shrink.