# @churchnewsroom on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=I-rhzvPKags
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65110524-churchnewsroom-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-25T16:06:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Church Newsroom (@churchnewsroom) — https://gondola.cc/churchnewsroom

## Caption

Between his ministry visit to Brazil and the dedication of the Bahia Blanca Argentina Temple, Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in the 7th annual Seminario Sudamericano (or Latter-day Saint South American Seminar) on Friday, November 21, 2025, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“Today’s world needs integrity, empathy and moral clarity. These qualities grow where discipleship runs deep. That is why it is so important to reinforce the idea that, as disciples of Christ, we set an example not only in religious matters but in conduct, integrity, compassion and relationships — with people, with governments, with everyone in the world,” said Elder Soares.

This year marks 100 years since Elder Melvin J. Ballard, an Apostle of the Church, traveled to Argentina and offered a dedicatory prayer for the preaching of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in South America on Christmas Day, December 25, 1925.

“Bless the presidents, governors and leading officials of these [South] American countries that they may kindly receive us and give us permission to open the doors of salvation to the peoples of these lands. May they be blessed in administering the affairs of their several offices that great good may come unto the people, that peace may be upon these nations,” Ballard prayed.

Before leaving Argentina, Ballard predicted that the Church would initially grow “just as an oak grows slowly from an acorn.” But, he promised, the day would come when “thousands would join the Church [in South America.]”

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