Once upon a time there was an average LDS young woman who entered the dating world on a quest to eventually find an eternal companion, as well as create some fun memories on the way. She found, though, that dating could be very confusing at times.
For example, sometimes when she held hands on dates, her date would call her the next day and they would start dating exclusively; other times, her date would continue asking other girls out in addition to her. Or sometimes, she would ask a guy on a date just to have fun, and he acted nervous around her ever after that because he thought she was interested in a way he didn't reciprocate.
At first, this young woman thought that the problem was that no one communicated in dating. And reading the words of the world's philosophers and sages only gave her conflicting information. But then one day she read the story of the tower of Babel and she realized she had been wrong. The problem wasn't that people didn't communicate. Everyone communicates in dating, but everyone speaks a different language. Holding hands or asking people out meant something different to everyone. And so two people who thought they had communicated clearly could find themselves completely misunderstood.
She wondered if it had always been that way, and if it had to stay that way. She learned that in the distant past, societies had much more consistent, widely established ways of showing interest and communicating commitment. But something had confounded the language of dating so that there was no longer one world-wide manner of speech. She wondered if the only response was despair, or if there was some way to fix the problem.
She decided that since ancient prophets use the urim and thummim to overcome differences in spoken language, she ought to turn to modern prophets for help in overcoming differences in dating languages. She found like-minded young Latter-day Saints, and together they searched the words of the prophets to find out what they said are the purposes, patterns, and principles of dating that we should follow.
Eventually, as more and more Latter-day Saints continued their individual quests with the words of the prophets foremost in their minds, they found that they were more successful in finding eternal mates, and that dating was a lot more fun in the process.
