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Beware of porn, drugs and ‘Satan’s traps,’ Nelson tells Tahitians at end of his Pacific tour

President Russell M. Nelson wrapped up his nine-day, seven-nation tour of the Pacific with a warning to Tahitian Latter-day Saints to beware of evil.

“There’s trouble ahead … prepare for attacks from the adversary,” cautioned the 94-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “Please protect yourself from Satan's traps, including harmful drugs and pornography.”

Before speaking to 12,000 people at Friday devotional in Pater Stadium in Tahiti, Nelson — with his wife, Wendy, along with Elder Gerrit W. Gong (the faith’s first Asian American apostle) and his wife, Susan — met with French Polynesian President Édouard Fritch in Pape’ete.