Tomball, Texas • Among a crowd of 800 worshippers — some wearing boots and many more donning bright yellow shirts — one of the Mormon church’s top leaders reminded members gathered here that they show their faith by serving others in crisis.
All around them, examples of that very crisis closed in — destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey, one of the worst storms to hit the U.S.
Yet, despite their surroundings, the message from Dieter F. Uchtdorf, the second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on Sunday focused on encouragement and service in difficult times, regardless of religion.