The world is spiraling down at an ever-quickening pace. I am sorry to tell you it will not get better. . . . I know of nothing in the history of the church or in the history of the world to compare to our present circumstances. Nothing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds the wickedness and depravity which surrounds us now. . . . Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. It is now spread across the world, wherever the church is. The first line of defense—the home—is crumbling. . . . We are now exactly where the prophets warned us we would be. (President Boyd K. Packer, On the Shoulders of Giants, February 28, 2004)