Struggling.

I have been really struggling with my faith recently. I really want to believe in this church I do, but it’s so hard sometimes. Especially with modern day media painting Mormons in a bad light often. I keep running across videos of people bashing the religion for having a racist and sexist past, as well as bringing up the fact that Joseph Smith had relations with a 14 year old. It’s just things like this that really make me struggle thinking about it. Any advice?

Edit: I also wanna add on that I know a lot of these things may be untrue so please correct me if I’m wrong! I would hate to spread the wrong message! The issue is some of these things have also come from Christians which you know are fairly similar to LDS members

Thank you all for your kind words! So much to read through here but i appreciate all of you ❤️