Did President Oaks Lower The Marriage Age For Latter-day Saints?

In an interview over the weekend, President Oaks stated that by lowering the mission age for women, we should start to see marriage ages dropping. What do you think of that? I fully agree that this would be a good thing.

Are we planning on invading Iran? What did President Trump's post mean when he said, "Help Is On The Way."

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All right, welcome to Quick Show. Today
it is January 13, 2026. We're covering a
couple of different stories. I want to
cover the post that was made on Truth
Social from Donald Trump saying to the
protesters to keep protesting in Iran
and that help is on its way. This brings
up a moral dilemma that I think is
addressed in the Book of Mormon. And and
I want to go through that. And those of
you that are saying, "Hey, let's go get
them." uh and others of you are saying
let's stay out of people's business. I I
think the Book of Mormon addresses this
to some degree. So I want to cover that
and uh talk about just so many different
wars and rumors of wars that are that
are going on in the world today.
Secondly, did President Oaks just lower
the marriage age of Latter-day Saints of
those young Latter-day Saints to be
married? We'll talk about that. But
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Okay, first let's take a look at this
post that President Trump put out today.
It is very interesting. Um, I think
really this is more a part of his
negotiating style. But let's take a look
at this. It says, "Iranian patriots,
keep protesting. Take over your
institutions.
save the names of the killers and
abusers. So he's putting out a right he
he's putting out a shot across the bow,
so to speak, of the regime in Iran. He
says they will pay a big price.
Obviously a warning saying if you keep
pushing forward and causing problems
with these protesters, right? There's
been reportedly up to 2,000 deaths so
far as I'm speaking here
of the protesters. Those are from
credible sources
from the Iranian regime.
He says, "I have canled all meetings
with Iranian officials until the
senseless killing of protesters stops.
Help is on its way.
Mega,
that is make Iran great again."
President Donald J. Trump. Okay, so a
couple of points here. First of all, I
do believe that this is simply a
negotiating tactic from President Trump.
I think that he is trying to force not
force but he's trying to leverage his
position and the position of the United
States after what happened last summer
in the United States helping Israel uh
uh demolish the
nuclear capabilities of Iran and doing
it very succinctly, precisely
and without any not many boots on the
ground there in Iran. And so they've
still got that lingering in their minds.
The response from Iran is a little bit
comical in saying that they are a great
nation and they're going to be able to
fight if there's any military uh
intrusion into Iran. But uh that's the
way Trump works, right? He's going to
push things all the way to the edge
verbally and see how you react.
And and if you continue going with these
things, then he's going to start pushing
other buttons. But he's going to go all
the way out there leaving it ambiguous
as to what is exactly going to happen if
you keep going after these protesters
while at the same time encouraging the
protesters to keep protesting and to
take over the institutions.
Right? And that's the key in any regime
change or culture change. I mean, look
at the culture change we've had in the
last 50 years with American institutions
being taken over by the hard left.
So, at a minimum, that's the right thing
to say. Now, President Trump did have
talks planned. He was trying to get this
done, but with the killing of the
protesters, he's backed off of that and
he's strongarming things now.
But it brings up a very interesting
point and and we've seen the uh um
precise precision extradition of
President Maduro in Venezuela very
recently. Uh, I would say again going
back to uh working with Israel and Iran,
very precise, very short really what a
12-day war last summer, if you even call
it a war. It was more of an operation.
And with the advancement of technology,
this seems to be more easy to accomplish
and therefore more enticing to carry
out. Now, whether you agree with what we
did in Iran was good or Venezuela,
here's my question. Where do you draw
the line between what I believe is a
moral stance of war, and doing things to
defend yourself as the world's
power leader, right? The global power,
the United States. Do you hold a
responsibility for your neighbor, for
another country far away from you? in
helping them create liberty or are you
nation building at that point? Are you
intervening in other people's business?
The Book of Mormon is very interesting
on this and I think it's written for our
la the last days here that we're living
in. You never see the Nephites going in
to battle against the Lammonites in
their territories. The only time that
you see that them battling where where
Lammonites already are is where the
Lamemonites have taken over territory
from the Nephites. They are always
defending their own land. And so it's
it's a difficult thing to look at
because I would say, okay, what would
you do for your neighbor? Are you
responsible for your next door neighbor
if something bad is happening to them?
Are they not human beings?
And how far do you take that? What about
one street over? What about a county?
You know, a county away, a city away, a
state away. What about a country far
away from you? Where does that end? Now,
we have different political structural
government entities with borders and
governments and that's typically where
we draw the line is with those things.
And so it's I think it's a very
interesting
moral issue to discuss these things
where you have the technology to be able
to go in easily to some of these places,
root out bad actors, play judge
uh from far a far distance away and not
acting through democracy, not acting
through influence but acting through
force. You know where do you draw the
line? Where is where and that's what I'm
interested in you you re bringing back
to this discussion through the comment
section.
What is right and what is wrong? Who is
your neighbor and who is not your
neighbor? I think that these are very
good questions and and then throw in the
idea of the Book of Mormon. You only see
defense in those cases.
Were the Lammonites at times oppressing
their own people? We don't get a lot of
talk about that, but but maybe. So
anyway, throw in your comments there and
and let me know what you think about
that. We'll see how this unfolds going
forward. I'll pin that question in the
comments. And by the way, make sure to
subscribe and hit that bell. All right,
now on to our second topic, and that is
President Oaks. He just lower the
marriage age for
those Latter-day Saints that will be
getting married in the future. He
believes so. How did he do that? Well,
he says by having sister missionaries go
out at the age of 18 instead of 19 or at
least giving them that option. In a
recent interview, he was asked, "You
recently announced that young women can
serve missions at age 18 instead of 19.
How do you think that will bless the
lives of young women across the church?
And President Oaks, this is what he
says. I think it will increase their
time for planning their lives, whether
they use their possibility to serve a
mission or whether they plan their lives
in other directions. So, but he's saying
the mission gives them a choice earlier
on in their life. I I'll be honest. I
don't doubt, honestly, I don't doubt
that what this does is give more
sisters, young sisters,
a better choice of not going directly to
college for a year. Because
I mean, it sounds counterproductive if
you say, well, if they go off to
college, especially if it's like an LDS
college like BYU, BYU Idaho, BYU Hawaii,
Enz and Zion especially, it's it's like,
well, they could find somebody there and
get married and maybe that's what they
want to do. Of course, at 18, that's
pretty young in our society, right? So
maybe if they're off on a mission for a
year and a half, they're 19 and a half,
they come back, they're getting, even if
you're getting married really early, but
you've gone on a mission, you're not
getting married at 18 or 19. You're
getting married at 20, 21, 22 years old.
But often times, the women that are
going to college first
there, especially if you're going
somewhere else, there there is
indoctrination there. There is you're
going to get more of an indoctrination.
And I and I just wonder and I say
indoctrination I mean girl boss power
right I'm talking about careerism and a
future that is not focused primarily on
marriage and children which is what we
have been infected with in the west
especially here in the United States.
And he says this specifically, I also
hope that it will reduce the age of
marriage. In the time that we have
lowered the age for young men and for
young women in the past, we've seen an
increase in people who meet someone,
this is interesting, who meet someone in
the mission field and marry them, which
is perfectly appropriate if it doesn't
start too early in their missionary
service. So, I guess later on in the
middle or later and you're starting to
have thoughts about another missionary,
um, well, I I guess that's okay. That
used to be a lot more taboo than what
he's saying here. He says, "I think it's
part of the Lord's plan to overcome the
tendency of waiting until the late 20s
to have a first marriage." That's
interesting that he says a first
marriage. I think we will see a
reduction in the age of marriages for
Latter-day Saints. So really his whole
answer on this is is that he's this is
seems to be the focus on this is getting
men and women married at an earlier age
even though more sisters might be going
out sooner on a mission. Of course, they
are returning earlier on a mission and
they have to have a decision made
earlier on in their life coming through
their senior year in high school at
least as to whether or not they're going
to be going on a mission to begin with.
And this is important. It's been brought
up by him and others in the church and
by the brethren that, you know, we
though we're not as bad as the rest of
the West or the United States in terms
of the fertility rate and the marriage
rate, we are following suit in the
culture. We are getting married later as
Latter-day Saints. We're having fewer
children. We're waiting longer to have
children. And this is not good. It's not
positive. And those that would say
otherwise are focused on themselves.
They really are because all of the
evidence, the social studies evidence
shows that those that get married
earlier for the most part actually have
longer marriages and those that have
kids earlier on have more fulfillment in
their life. And I'm talking about women.
The loud voices out there will tell you
otherwise. But look at the actual
studies.
And and this is our purpose as you
become an adult. It is not healthy to go
out and focus yourself on careerism
beyond marriage and kids. And of course,
I put the disclaimer in there saying
that some people have have a more
difficult time accomplishing this even
though this may be their their goal,
their objective, but we need to hold the
ideal in place. And we don't do a very
good job of that. Honestly, I'll say
that as a culture in the church, we are
not doing a good job of that. Too many
reports coming back from wards and
stakes where there are young women
advisors for example telling the girls I
wish I would have waited longer to get
married and I
uh um you know go out and get a career
and and focus on the career first and
then make a decision down the road. This
is counterproductive
to a healthy church, a healthy family, a
healthy society.
And I know there are other arguments
that are economic especially and a
backup plan for a woman in case things
don't work out with a marriage and
you're stuck with kids. That those are
all valid issues. They're valid issues,
but we've got to hold the ideal up and
work around that. The ideal is to be a
parent and a spouse and to create an
eternal family. That is the entire plan
of salvation. Now, I want to go over a
few other things that President Oak said
in this interview. Very interesting.
First of all, he says here that we are
in a glorious season of temple building.
We currently have 212 operating temples
and 150 more in design or under
construction.
So that is a total already of announced
and operating of 362
temples around the world. And then he
says this about what we're going to face
here shortly. Similar to the things that
President Nelson has said, quote, as we
experience Satan's deadly onslaught on
morality,
right? And I want you to think about
that because there is an onslaught here
against morality. And unfortunately,
some members of the church are being
swayed by those things that are outside
the law of chastity and outside the
traditional family. And I want to bring
this up also because there's argument
within the church. There's an argument
that comes up about certain BYU studies
that have been done and others where
they say, "Look, the traditional family
isn't always what we thought it was. We
have this extended family. You've got
cousins living together. You've got
aunts and uncles in three generations
living together. See, a traditional
family can be almost anything. But
that's not what traditional family
means. You're talking about living
circumstances.
That's very different. And I think that
is very positive to have that type of a
scenario where you have different
generations living together and even
cousins, so to speak, living together in
in in a home. But the traditional family
is very simple. It is a man and a woman
and their children. A man and a woman
and their children. Regardless of the
living circumstances. So if you've heard
that arguments against traditional
family, even within the ranks of the
church, I I that's that's not what a
traditional family means.
Right. You're I I've heard this several
times because I know there's been a
study, at least one study that's been
done at BYU that that talked about how
there's been such a difference and how
there can be a lot of support in those
scenarios. Those are extended families
and those are living circumstances.
Traditional family is what we center on
in the temple, right? You go through the
covenant. You build a relationship with
God. You covenant to build that
relationship with God. And then you end
up being sealed and in in in marriage
and and then you have children and or
adopt children and you build a
traditional family. The living
circumstances around you can be very
different.
So again, as we experience Satan's
deadly onslaught on morality and the
integrity of families, and as we read
the prophecies and feel the signs of the
times, we cannot doubt that the future
holds great sacrifices and challenges
for Latter-day Saints individually and
for the divinely prescribed work of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. That is remember this is about
the the temple dedication in Berley,
Idaho. So there can be issues here with
with temple work. He says the scriptures
speak of perilous times when men's
hearts will fail them. Right? We talk
about how your heart fails you. What is
that? It's courage. Right? It is about
courage. Courage is from the French C
which is heart. It's about the failing
of your courage.
How do we mask our activities and our
decisions when we have we lack courage?
And how do we build the courage to stand
up to a world that is increasingly
becoming more immoral?
He says they also speak being the
scriptures of worthy disciples escaping
these things of their standing in holy
places and not being moved. And that's
the way it is over and over again.
You've got the Exodus with the children
of Israel coming out of Egypt. You've
got Lehi leaving a very wicked Jerusalem
and and and Judah. You've got the early
church and saints after the time of
Jesus. You've got the Latter-day Saints
having to leave Nauvoo and move on to
Utah. Down a little further here, he
says, "Surely the times ahead will call
for us to remember our temple
covenants." So the more you're going,
obviously you're going to work for
others. You're serving others when you
go through the temple. But those
covenants as you go through and you've
you you you're reminded of the covenants
that you originally made in the temple,
right? You remember our temple covenants
and to rely on the blessings promised in
these houses. So the more we go, the
more we remember this in these houses of
the Lord here in Burley and throughout
the world. This is his house. This is
his work. We are his servants. One thing
that's been a very steady message for
all of us from the prophets is that
templegoing individuals will be
strengthened against Babylon.
And and that
when you when you pull those together
and you say why? Well, there's there's
reasons for going through the temple.
First of all, service to others, which
matters and changes your heart. But
secondly, it's the knowledge that you
gain there and that you're reminded of
there through the covenants and the
symbols and the ascension that you're
going through. It tells us what the
grand plan is. And we can view things
more from that 30,000 ft level than just
right down on the ground.
Thanks for listening.