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10 months after rescue of daughter from Haiti, family is sealed

Kate Ensign-Lewis - Last Friday dawned with the promise that Jeremy and Hollie Wardle would finally reach the culmination of their journey to bring their family together. They and their children would finally be sealed to the last addition to their family—their 7-year-old, Gabbie. “When all six of the kids came in, in their white clothes, and Gabbie being asked individually to come kneel across the altar with us—it was so beautiful,” Jeremy said afterward. There were times when they wondered how far away this day was. In particular, January 12, 2010, dawned with a new challenge and a special reason for concern: Gabbie...

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LDS teen tackles paralysis

Erin Nelson - Weeks after an accident that left 16-year-old Tyler Schihabel paralyzed from the waist down, thousands have seen his spiritual and physical strength change lives. Tyler fell 30 feet off a sand dune in Pismo, Calif. on Sept. 5. His chest hit the handlebars of his ATV and pinched his vertebrae, leaving him paralyzed. In that moment on the hillside he realized he couldn’t feel his legs, and with a calm strength, told his brother and friends not “to freak out.” Days before the accident, the family had bad feelings about the trip with his friends. Tyler kept getting the feeling that...

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Martin Luther and a Life Changing Moment

John L. Lund - <a href="http://www.funforlesstours.com/" target="blank">FUN FOR LESS TOURS</a> - Most of us are caught up in the hustle-bustle of daily living and rightly so. We are anxiously engaged in the daily pursuit of health, wealth, and happiness. During our sojourn there are moments when quite unexpectedly we are confronted with a life changing event. The experience will change the choices we make for the rest of our lives. The life-changing experience could be as simple as a poignant moment derived from watching a movie, reading a novel, perusing the Holy Scriptures or listening to an inspired speaker that jolts us into an introspective search for the meaning of our lives....

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Young Women Lesson 42: Gratitude and Appreciation

LDS Living - This afternoon I am honored to represent those Relief Society leaders who, here in this very Tabernacle, shared the doctrines of the kingdom, emphasized the significance of women’s roles in the home and family, called each other to charitable service, and reminded their sisters of the joy that comes from righteous living. From this pulpit in 1870, Eliza R. Snow asked thousands of women a question that I’d like to repeat today: “Do you know of any place on the face of the earth, where [a] woman has more liberty, and where she enjoys such high and glorious privileges as she...

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Old Testament Lesson 42: I Will Write It in Their Hearts

Ted L. Gibbons - INTRODUCTION: A great deal has been said and written in recent months by Church leaders about the need to get the gospel deeper into the hearts of the people.&nbsp; I believe that modern Israel is as righteous as Israel has ever been, but listening to ten hours of conference in October (especially President Hinckley’s final talk) has convinced me that we can do better.&nbsp; We seem to know a lot of the questions about the gospel, and many of the answers, but some of us may have missed the power of real conversion.&nbsp; Benjamin’s people, generally faithful members, heard their king...

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Young Men Lesson 42: Follow the Brethren

LDS Living - Shortly after the death of President Gordon B. Hinckley, the 14 men, Apostles, who had had conferred upon them the keys of the kingdom, gathered together in the upper room of the temple in order to reorganize the First Presidency of the Church. There was no question about what would be done, no hesitancy. We knew that the senior Apostle was the President of the Church. And in that sacred meeting, Thomas Spencer Monson was sustained by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as the President of the Church. He nominated and named his counselors. They likewise were sustained, and they...

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November 2010 Sharing Time: Blessings in the Scriptures

Shauna Gibby - Preparation Prepare ten slips of paper with one of the following acts of service on them. Raking leaves, setting the table, reading a story to a younger child, giving a gift to someone, taking dinner to someone sad or in need, cleaning up litter, visiting an elderly or lonely person, donating money to a charity, giving unneeded clothes or toys to Deseret Industries, sharing a treat with a friend. Obtain a large pad of paper and markers, or chalkboard and chalk. Presentation Explain to the children that Jesus often helped others. Tell them you are going to play a game to...

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Ask Dr. Elia: Will my kids make it?

Deseret News - Dear Dr. Elia, I am a divorced mother of four teenagers: a 19-year-old daughter and three boys 17, 15 and 13. They are all good kids, they don't seem to have any bad habits, but the oldest two seem to struggle with their activity in the church. They just seem to be going through the motions and lack any desire to be closer to God. My daughter is attending a local college and goes to the Singles Ward but is not very involved. My oldest boy comes to church with us but always looks bored like he'd rather be anywhere else....

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Businessmen can be virtuous, BYU professor says at conference

Deseret News - Consider the new executive who chooses to eat the gray slop from the employee's cafeteria, and then implements better dietary standards companywide, or the busy CEO who takes time to provide water filters for each family in a small town affected by a chemical spill that may or may not be coming from his factory. "Business people can have a mortal ministry that allows for the development of virtue," BYU professor Brad Agle said during a recent BYU conference about "Virtue and the Abundant Life." "They do it in the same way anyone else does it, in service to others. Business...

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Pres. Uchtdorf weighs in on same-sex attraction

Salt Lake Tribune - Mormons may not know until the hereafter what causes same-sex attraction, but “God loves all his children” and expects everyone to do the same, an LDS Church leader said Sunday. While the message — delivered to more than 200,000 Utah Mormons — may not seem significant, the messenger was. As second counselor in the governing First Presidency, Dieter F. Uchtdorf is one of the highest-ranking leaders in the hierarchy of the nearly 14 million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to address the thorny topic of whether same-sex attraction is inborn. The gentle tone and emphasis of Uchtdorf’s remarks...