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First Presidency Calls 164 New Mission Presidents to Begin Serving in 2019

Church News - The First Presidency has called 164 new mission presidents and companions who will begin service in July 2019. Mission presidents and their companions will serve in various locations across the world. View their new assignments here. Additionally, four newly created missions were announced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Jan. 2, with 12 existing missions being realigned with neighboring missions. These changes will take place July 1, at which time the Church will have a total of 399 missions worldwide. Lead image from Church News ...

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Why I’m Not Afraid of Mental Health Counseling Anymore

LDS.org - "Getting the help you need is not a sign of weakness or failure. Heavenly Father wants us to be healthy, mentally and physically, and has given us many 'marvelous gifts' to help us cope with the mental and emotional challenges of mortality," writes Dave Clarke.  The  Ensign r ecently published an honest, inspiring article by Dave Clarke about seeking professional help concerning mental health.  For more information about how to find the best mental health care provider for your needs, click here. “You should go talk to a mental health counselor.” This advice came as a huge surprise. I had just...

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Learn the Symbolism Behind the Statues in the Rome Temple Visitors' Center

Church News - Keys. A bag of money. An eagle. And numerous instruments representing a martyr’s death. Those are some of the symbols found on the 12 ancient apostles statues by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, which have been featured in The Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, Denmark, for nearly 200 years and now at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Rome Italy Temple Visitors’ Center. Each base bearing an apostle statue has inscribed a Greek equivalent of that apostle’s name. The larger Christus statue, has a shorter base with “Venite a Me” and “Matteo 11:28” — Italian for “Come unto Me”...

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16 Games and Books to Help Your Kids Learn (and Stay Quiet) During Church

LDS Living Staff - The Atonement of Jesus Christ Is for Me This reverent, rhyming picture book teaches that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can help us overcome any challenge we face, whether we’ve made a bad choice or feel lonely or scared.   Learn More Bible-Ites Learning Cards Get to know people in the Bible. Each "ite" teaches a lesson that will help your family make good decisions.   Learn More My Book of Mormon Friends This book helps bring Book of Mormon characters and their attributes to life for young children who are just getting to know their stories and examples. Learn More...

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9 Hilarious Stages of Giving a Talk at Church

Jannalee Sandau - Have you ever had to stand in the spotlight at the podium, nervously adjusting the microphone as you try to say something profound and spiritual? You're not alone! Everyone who speaks at a sacrament meeting goes through some variety of these nine funny, and sometimes painful, stages. 1. A few days (or if you're lucky, weeks) before Sunday, a member of the bishopric asks you to speak. You, of course, nonchalantly agree. "You got it, dude." 2. A few days go by, and though you keep telling yourself you've been thinking about it, you still haven't actually  started. 3. Saturday night...

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What Religious Leaders and Others Are Saying After Touring the Rome Italy Temple

LDS Living Staff - "Everyone who is a believer in Christ Jesus should come, come and experience what God is doing here through the Latter-day Saints," Rev. Dr. Chris Zacharias said after touring the Rome Italy Temple. Rev. Dr. Zacharias and his wife, Kim Zacharias, visited the temple as part of the VIP tours hosted by the Church from Jan. 15 to 22 before the public open house tours begin Jan. 28.  For some, the experience had a lasting impact.  "Everything was beautiful and I kind of felt a special spirit and it's something that touched me," Olympic gold medalist Paolo Cecchetto said.  Watch the...

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Church Releases What the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple Will Look Like

Newsroom - An artist rendering of the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was released January 12, 2019. Rendering of the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple. The rendering features a single-story temple with an end spire reflective of the architectural styles in the area. The temple will be located at 123 Calle Ronda Urb Villa Andalucía in the Trujillo Alto area of San Juan. This will be the first temple in Puerto Rico and the third temple in the Caribbean (following the dedication of the Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple later this year). The Puerto Rico temple...

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Church Announces 2 Temple Rededications for May 2019

Newsroom - The Memphis Tennessee and Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been renovated and will be rededicated in May. Memphis Tennessee Temple Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will preside over the rededication of the Memphis Tennessee Temple on Sunday, May 5, 2019. Attendance to the session will be by invitation. There will be no open house or youth devotional scheduled. The Memphis Tennessee Temple. The temple was dedicated April 23, 2000, by President James E. Faust, then second counselor in the First Presidency of the Church. Latter-day Saints...

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Latter-day Saint Sculptor Shares How He's Helped Thousands See the Beauty in the Rome Italy Visitors' Center

Katie Lambert - "What do you want to be?" a middle-aged woman asked from behind a desk. Standing at the front of a long line of fellow middle-school students, 14-year-old Bronson Evertsen froze at the question. "I haven't really thought about that yet," Bronson admitted. It wasn't exactly the wrong answer. At least it was truthful. But Bronson's fellow students looked at him in disbelief and the woman, who was there to assign Bronson to the right high school, stared. In Italy, asking a middle-school student to choose a career is mandatory. But before that awkward moment standing in line and having no idea...

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A New Resource for Studying the Book of Mormon That Can Help You Understand the Scriptures at a Deeper Level

Grant Hardy - Over thirty years ago President Benson challenged Church members to keep reading the Book of Mormon daily , along with their other scripture studies. Similarly, President Hinckley invited Latter-day Saints in August 2005 to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year , and President Nelson extended the same invitation to the women of the Church in the last October Conference. If we add in our regular reading of the Book of Mormon in Sunday School, Seminary, Institute, and missionary scripture study, that’s a lot of times through 1 Nephi to Moroni. While the witness of the Spirit...

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"It Was Glorious": Apostle Leads Catholic Delegation, Faith Leaders on Tour of Rome Temple

Deseret News - "My father was a Catholic," Elder Bednar said after many toured the Rome Italy Temple, including a Catholic delegation. "As a young man, he aspired to be a priest. And I have an aunt who's a nun, Sister Rosario, my Aunt Mary. So all my life I've been answering questions about, now what is it you do? And why do you do that? So today to take these really sincerely interested journalists through the temple and respond to their questions, questions of the soul, questions about living the gospel on a daily basis, we simply tried to explain to them that...

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Kidnapped Missionaries Sent Text for Help: "Some Crazy Dude with a Gun Is Making Us Buy Stuff"

Deseret News - A man accused of forcing four missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to give him money — essentially kidnapping and robbing them at knife and gunpoint — now faces eight first-degree felonies. Michael Jon Willie, 25, of West Jordan, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with four counts of aggravated kidnapping and four counts of aggravated robbery, all first-degree felonies. On Friday, while at an apartment complex in West Jordan, Willie approached the four missionaries and pointed a gun at them, according to charging documents. Lead image from Getty Images ...

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6 Ways to Improve Your Temple Experience

Arianna Rees - This article recently appeared in the  September/October 2018 issue  of  LDS Living magazine . A few weeks ago, I had a very mediocre temple visit. I was stressed about all of the things on my to-do list and had a nasty headache. Needless to say, by the time I went inside, I felt frazzled. I drummed my fingers impatiently on my armrest, and when the session ended, I zipped out as fast as I could. It wasn’t until I was in my car driving home that the remorse set in, and I realized I had spiritually wasted my trip. I’ve tried...

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Elder Christofferson and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Talk Lessons from Watergate in New Video

LDS Living Staff - In 1973, Bob Woodward was a young reporter for the Washington Post when he won a Pulitzer Prize for his pursuit of the Watergate scandal. His influence on the events that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation, the first-ever resignation from a U.S. president, is undeniable. Since Watergate, he has written many books, been portrayed in a Hollywood movie by Robert Redford, and appeared on countless network news programs, but on Monday, he sat down with Elder D. Todd Christofferson. During Watergate, Elder Christofferson was a young law clerk for Judge John J. Sirica and was among the first to listen to...

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Why Integrity in Government Matters: Elder Christofferson and Bob Woodward Share Fascinating Insights from Watergate to Today

Deseret News - When Bob Woodward learned that Richard Nixon had been pardoned, the reporter whose investigation led to the president’s resignation believed the pardon was improper, “the final corruption of Watergate.” A quarter of a century later, Woodward learned the truth: In pardoning his predecessor, Gerald Ford wasn’t making good on a shady deal that would give him the presidency, but saving the scandal-weary country from a protracted investigation, at personal cost. “What Ford did was gutsy and not corrupt,” Woodward said Monday evening at an event sponsored by the Deseret News, “Integrity & Trust: Lessons from Watergate and Today.” The realization also...

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Watch: Insights Into Christ's Birth That Will Add to Your "Come, Follow Me" Study

LDS Living Staff - What did the birth of our Savior really look like? And how can these insights change the way we view the Nativity?  Daniel Smith from Messages of Christ recently created a video that details what the night of Christ's birth might have been like and details how the ox and donkey often depicted in nativity scenes tie into prophecies from Isaiah. ...

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Christus and Other Statues in the Rome Italy Temple Visitors' Center

Church News - The ancient apostles have traveled again, from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Carrara, Italy, and on to Rome. It’s the second time in as many centuries those cities have been linked with the likes of Peter, James, John and Paul. In the early 1800s, a Danish sculptor trained in Rome crafted sculptures of Jesus Christ and 12 New Testament apostles — first of clay, then of plaster and finally of Carrara marble, with all 13 destined for a redesigned Copenhagen cathedral. More recently, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints digitally mapped the statues in Copenhagen, quarried marble in Carrara to fashion...

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What Happened After Nonmembers Were Asked to Read One Page of the Book of Mormon and Look for Jesus Christ

LDS Living Staff - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been hosting a social experiment on mormon.org. What happens when hundreds of people around the world are asked to read one page from the Book of Mormon? The testimonies and experiences of those who have attempted this experiment are inspiring and can help each of us see the Book of Mormon in a new way. Here is a brief sampling. Read more uplifting testimonies on mormon.org. "People believe god is not with them but he actually is." —Gustavo, Maracay, Venezuela, Catholic “I wasn’t really interested at first—I mean, I was hesitant. But...

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CNN Addresses the Role the Vatican Played in the Rome Italy Temple

Danielle B. Wagner - From the pope to our prophet, many church leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Catholic Church have worked closely together in recent years to champion social causes. In 2014, President Eyring spoke at the Vatican during an interfaith event on marriage , stating, "We must find ways to lead people to a faith that they can replace their natural self-interest with deep and lasting feelings of charity and benevolence." In 2018, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints honored His Eminence Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who stated, “We, Mormons and Catholics, stand together in our...

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Italians Wowed by Michelangelo Motif in Rome Temple

Deseret News - The first Italians to tour the new Rome Italy Temple stopped just inside the front door Monday and began to point and smile at something familiar, even though none had ever been inside a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before. There in a rug in the foyer — and soon they found it throughout the temple in stained glass, in staircase railings and engraved in the floors and walls — was a unique oval motif created by Michelangelo nearly 500 years ago and familiar to most Romans today, one with added symbolism in a Latter-day Saint...

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10 Inspiring Items to Remind Your Teen of This Year's Mutual Theme

LDS Living Staff - Layered Heart Keep My Commandments Necklace This necklace features a 3/4″ matte gold disk stamped “Keep my Commandments” layered with a smaller cutout heart disk in matte silver. It is set on a 15″–17″ adjustable dainty gold chain. Necklace is carded “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” Buy Now Keep My Commandments Tie Bar 2019 mutual theme, Keep My Commandments tie clip. Stainless steel tie bar measures approximately 2″ long. Buy Now Recipe for Revelation In this uplifting talk, popular speaker Eric Richards reveals the Lord's "recipe" for how to receive direct answers from Heavenly Father. If you or a...

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From Arranged Marriage to Temple Sealing: A Different Kind of Latter-day Love Story

Morgan Jones - Prabhu Pothuri and Divya Pothuri are sitting together in a classroom in a Latter-day Saint chapel in Wilson, North Carolina, an estimated 8,500 miles away from their native India. Aside from Divya’s traditional Indian sari, they appear to be like any other couple worshiping in the chapel. But the Pothuris’ love story began very differently than most Latter-day Saint couples. The Pothuris had an arranged marriage. An estimated 84 to 90 percent of marriages in India—depending on your source—are arranged. For the Pothuris, their parents began looking for respective matches for their children when their children were settled and ready to...

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How to Accept the Change When a Parent Remarries

Kelsey Berteaux - More than 50 million remarried people currently live in the United States alone. Two of those people are my parents. In just over 14 months, they went from a couple of 25 years to divorcés to members of new blended families. I and my four adult siblings quite suddenly found ourselves with a stepfather, a stepmother, and five new stepsiblings. And for a long time, I wasn’t really sure where I fit. Feelings like mine, of loss and confusion, are common for adult children of remarrying parents, as are feelings of guilt and frustration from the remarrying parents. And for Latter-day...

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Sister Oaks Shares the One Question Single Adults Should Be Asking to Live Life to the Fullest

Church News - “My original question had been, ‘Am I doing something wrong?’" Sister Oaks said about her experience as a single adult. "I learned that is the wrong question. I should be asking, ‘What more can I do that is right?’ You have that capacity.” Nearly every chair in this Holladay, Utah, Church meetinghouse was filled. And several people who couldn’t squeeze into the chapel, overflow or cultural hall stood at the doors to hear Sister Kristen Oaks speak. “Know that everything is good in your life,” she said as she opened her remarks on Jan. 13. “And if you're in this room at...

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