Seeking a Higher Power Amidst the Depths Religious faith is very powerful for young Mormons, who are expected to spend a mission year at the end of adolescence. Rodney Mills and Robert Keach pray after preaching in Kensington, Philadelphia, a neighborhood of heroin addicts, male and female sex workers, prescription drug sellers, and, in 2010, a serial killer who specialized in strangling prostitutes. All emerging adults seek the meaning of life; obviously some answers are more powerful than others.