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Change the channel on the television, turn off pornography on the computer, don't rent racy videos and leave revealing clothes in the store, said Margaret D. Nadauld, general young women president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when she spoke at the organization's annual meeting Saturday.

Nadauld addressed young women ages 12-18 gathered in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, but the session also was broadcast via satellite to LDS meeting houses across the United States, Canada and Latin America.

"The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong,'' Nadauld said.

Themes of integrity, standing for truth and giving service to others dominated speeches at the gathering. While challenges facing young women in the church have changed in the last 100 years, those themes have not, said James E. Faust, second counselor in the church's governing First Presidency.

Faust drew laughter from the crowd when he outlined the requirements of the church's program for young women in 1916. They included caring for a hive of bees for a season, keeping the house free of flies or killing at least 25 flies daily and clearing sagebrush off one half-acre of land.

Requirements today are more likely to include goals of increasing talents and volunteer work in the church and community.

"The basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others,'' Faust said. "Often the greatest service to others is one-on-one. It need not be on a grand scale, and is noblest within the family."

Faust also told the women to seek skills and education as part of their personal goals.

"You young women should have personal goals in addition to the excellent goals outlined in the Young Women program,'' he said. "In the future, as in the past, women will find happiness and fulfillment as they respond to the deepest feelings of their souls."

Nadauld told the women to be strong and not be desensitized by "gradual lapses in good judgment."

"As you view images, whether on TV or videos or movies or the Internet, you will see some good things and most probably some things that are not good. Wrong and evil may be made to appear acceptable. Don't be tricked!'' she said.