teachings, he then was given the honor of being a member of the Aaronic priesthood. This priesthood stage is given to boys, age 12 and up, that display worthiness according to the church’s teachings. Grown men, within the church, place their hands upon a male youth in an ordaining ceremony that begins the youth’s entry into this priesthood. Jayden, even before his ordainment, would always tell his other male peers of his age, “We must act in accordance with what we believe, no matter what!” He was driven by his spirit for the Lord, and now sixteen, this level of dedication had not sizzled. In the same year that Jayden was at the age of sixteen, another affluent family, within his church, decided to adopt a teen male from Africa. This African
