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Sister Allred: 'Increase faith, hope'

LDS Church News - Women of the Church must be steadfast and immovable as they face the challenges that try their faith, said Sister Silvia H. Allred, first counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, during the General Relief Society Meeting broadcast Saturday evening. “Our faith and steadfastness in Christ will give us the courage and confidence we need to face life’s challenges, which are part of our mortal experience,” she said. Sister Allred shared a story of a family from Paraguay and their trip to the Buenos Aires Argentina Temple to be sealed. It was the middle of a very cold winter when the...

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Sister Thompson: Visiting teaching will bring blessings

LDS Church News - As women look to the Savior’s example of compassion and love, they are more able to make a difference in the lives of others, said Sister Barbara Thompson, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, during the General Relief Society Meeting held in the Conference Center on Sept. 25. “Compassion means to feel love and mercy towards another person,” she said. “It means to have sympathy and desire to relieve the suffering of others. It means to show kindness and tenderness towards another.” By looking to the example of the Savior, women are more able to minister one to another...

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Sister Beck: 'Each of you is precious beyond description and known by our Heavenly Father'

LDS Church News - In this day of mistaken identities, confusion and distraction, Relief Society is a compass and guide to teach the truth to faithful women, said Sister Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president. Speaking at the General Relief Society Meeting on Sept. 25, Sister Beck said righteous women today “seek an outpouring of revelation to resist distractions, fight evil and spiritual destruction, and rise above personal disasters by increasing their faith, strengthening their families and homes and providing relief to others.” Sister Beck called the general meeting, which was translated and broadcast across the globe, a gift to all women who desire...

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Joe Cannon is defined by optimism, enthusiasm

Deseret News - When Joseph A. Cannon was 15 years old, his dad told him they were going to the World's Fair in New York. Joe's mind flashed forward to Technicolor images of bright lights and a bustling midway. There was only one problem: Adrian Cannon was a bookstore owner of very modest means, and the Cannons couldn't afford train fare to get from their Los Angeles home to San Francisco, to say nothing of New York City. So Joe's dad hatched a plan: He and his three boys would ride their bikes across the country. Pauline, Joe's mother and voice of practicality in...

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To The Rescue: President Monson and Warm Fuzzies

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Utah and 9 states file brief opposing gay marriage

Salt Lake Tribune - Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and seven other states have submitted a brief opposing gay marriage to a federal appeals court in California. The amicus brief sent Friday to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said that the Constitution does not require marriage to include same-sex couples. The 39-page brief also said that states, not federal courts, have final say in whether to allow same-sex marriages. A federal judge ruled last month that California’s Proposition 8, a voter-passed ban on same-sex marriage, was unconstitutional. Judge Vaughn Walker ruled there was no legitimate state interest in preventing same-sex marriages and that “moral disapproval”...

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Judge not, President Thomas S. Monson counsels women

Deseret News - In a hundred small ways, all Latter-day Saint women wear the mantle of charity, President Thomas S. Monson said Saturday evening. "Rather than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life. May we recognize that each one is doing her best to deal with the challenges which come her way, and may we strive to do our best to help out," President Monson said while offering the closing address at the General Relief Society Meeting for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Held...

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How to be a successful convert

Deseret News - Last time, I shared some suggestion on how members can help new converts. This time I'd like to talk about how new converts can help themselves. It's great to have the support of the members in your ward, but you can't solely rely on others. Some of the best counsel I received from a former bishop of my ward was, "People will often fail you, but the Lord never will." It has always helped me to keep things in perspective. Hopefully, these tips will be in harmony with the support of members in the ward. 1. Step out of your comfort...

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Glenn Beck, Mormons, and the Religious Right

Newsweek - Conventional wisdom in the last election cycle held that Mitt Romney could never win the hearts of America’s conservative evangelicals—the Republican base—because he’s Mormon, and evangelicals don’t consider Mormons to be properly Christian. “I don’t believe conservative Christians will vote for a Mormon, but that remains to be seen,” James Dobson, then chairman of Focus on the Family, told radio host Laura Ingraham in the run-up to the 2008 contest. But just two years later, the person who has most loudly, most passionately, and, some would say, most convincingly gathered voters around a faith-and-values message is media personality Glenn Beck—who happens...

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How Much Does a Mormon Wedding Cost?

Times and Seasons - For a decade we lived in Boca Raton, Florida — a city with a synagogue on every corner where you were much more likely to be invited to a bris or bar/bat mitzvah than any other religious ceremony. Boca had a single ward that varied between fairly thriving (when IBM had a campus there) to barely surviving (when they moved out) and spots in between. But few in the area seemed well-versed in Mormon culture or doctrine. One day I hosted a meeting for the room mothers for oldest daughter’s kindergarten class. When the women walked into the living room, one...