Adoption

This topic page features BYU Speeches that thoughtfully examine adoption in both personal and spiritual contexts. Speakers reflect on the role of agency, the eternal nature of families, and how adoption fits into God’s plan of love and belonging for all His children.

Brennan C. Platt

We Chose This! Agency, Atonement, and Joy

8 Jul 2025

We will make mistakes throughout all our life; we won’t be good enough on our own. But our Savior ensured that we can repent of those mistakes—over and over, improving and progressing.

Devotional Adoption Adversity Agency

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Steven J. Hafen

Our Path to Lasting Personal Peace

12 Mar 2024

Even in the midst of poignant personal challenges, difficult decisions, and tribulation caused by living in “a most complicated time in the history of the world,” we can experience peace through “the greatest manifestations of the Savior’s power that the world has ever seen.”

Devotional Adoption Atonement Peace

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Sterling C. Hilton

His Burden Is Light

15 Oct 2015

Remaining steadfast in Christ through our afflictions and adversity increases our capacity to see our promised end more clearly. Like a powerful spotlight that shines more brightly in complete darkness, our suffering reveals Christ to us.

Devotional Adoption Adversity

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Adoption

We Chose This! Agency, Atonement, and Joy

Our Path to Lasting Personal Peace

His Burden Is Light

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