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LDS Teen Who Challenged BSA's Special Needs Restrictions Gets Standing Ovation on Utah Senate Floor

KSL - “I think the young man sitting here has changed history,” Senator Jim Dabakis said. “That giant institution, the Boy Scouts of America, yielded to Logan Blythe and now there is a separate track for all Boy Scouts of America who are mentally challenged because of what this young man did.” Sen. Jim Dabakis on Wednesday honored a Payson teenager from the Senate floor who he said he believes has changed history. Logan Blythe, 15, was involved in a lawsuit that claimed he was not accepted into a Boy Scouts of America Alternative Eagle Scout Program due to his mental disability. Lead...

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Jesus Was with My Daughter the Day She Died: A Message from the Family of a Sandy Hook Victim We Need Now More Than Ever

Danielle B. Wagner - I have had the rare and achingly beautiful honor of getting to know Robbie and Alissa Parker, the parents of Emilie Parker, a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting that took the life of 20 elementary students and 6 school employees. Over the past year, I have read their story,  heard their story one-on-one, and have even had the unique privilege of writing a small piece of their story . Alissa and Robbie's bravery has astounded me as they have shared vulnerable, spiritual aspects of their loss, opening my eyes to how an act of violence can impact a family. But what is...

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“Stay Engaged” in Personal Progress Until 2020, General Young Women Leaders Say

ChurchofJesusChrist.org - "President Thomas S. Monson once said: 'This is my day of opportunity. I will not waste it.'  What a wonderful 'day of opportunity' we have before us. Let’s not waste it! We feel the privilege and call of a living prophet in the last days—to prepare ourselves for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ." Ours is a global Church with changing needs. To meet those needs, and to help prepare both young men and young women to make and keep sacred temple covenants and act on personal revelation, a new approach to activities and achievement is being developed and will be...

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The LDS Couple Who Has Visited 123 Temples Around the World + What They've Learned

Yvonne Liu - Over the last 20 years, Randy and Maryanne Ellison have visited 123 temples. Each temple trip has a unique story, but during this journey the Ellisons have found that the more temples and Saints they have visited around the world, the deeper their appreciation grows for God’s works and blessings. “During this process, we have learned a great deal about the Lord’s work in that each temple is the same—whether it is big, small, or medium. Because of what is going on inside the walls, they are all the same,” Randy says. The Ellisons are both retired and live in Indianapolis,...

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Secretary for the First Presidency Brook Hales Called as General Authority Seventy

Newsroom - The following was released on Newsroom about our latest General Authority Seventy, Brook P. Hales, who was called on May 17, 2018: Brook P. Hales has been called to serve as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints effective May 17, 2018, at age 62. At the time of his call, he had been serving as the secretary to the First Presidency and will continue in this role. He previously served as assistant secretary to the First Presidency from 1997 to 2008. Elder Hales received a banking and finance degree from Weber State College in...

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What Prophets and Apostles Have Said About Soul Mates: Do Latter-day saints believe in soul mates?

Yvonne Liu - Movies and songs are filled with romantic notions of predestined love, fate, love at first sight, and soul mates. But do any of these ideas have a place in Latter-day Saint beliefs? Here’s what prophets and apostles have said about it: President Spencer W. Kimball “‘Soul mates are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if...

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Old Testament Lesson 38: "Beside Me There Is No Savior"

Ted L. Gibbons - Introduction A lovely young lady sat in my office a while ago. Her life, which had begun with joy, service, and obedience, had descended through successive layers of iniquity and decadence to a place where blackness enveloped her, and she was miserable. Like Lehi of old, she beheld herself (see 1 Nephi 8:7 ). Like the prodigal son, she had spent too much time with the pigs and had come to herself (see Luke 15:17 ). She did not like what she saw in her mirror each morning and came at last to the one unfailing source of help. She came...

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The "Supernatural Power" and Miracle That Allowed David Whitmer to Come to the Prophet Joseph's Aid

Jack M. Lyon, Jay A. Parry, Linda Ririe Gundry, adapted from "Best-Loved Stories of the LDS People" - As Joseph was translating by means of the Urim and Thummim, he received instead of the words of the Book, a commandment to write a letter to a man by the name of David Whitmer, who lived in Waterloo, requesting him to come immediately with his team, and convey himself and Oliver to his own residence, as an evil-designing people were seeking to take away his (Joseph’s) life, in order to prevent the work of God from going forth to the world. The letter was written and delivered, and was shown by Mr. Whitmer to his father, mother, brothers, and sisters,...

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100-Year-Old Temple Ordinance Worker Inspires Thousands Through Her Service

ChurchofJesusChrist.org - To her friends and family, Anne Freiss is considered "100-years-young" and an inspiration in the ways she continues to serve the Lord. Anne Freiss doesn't like anyone knowing or making a fuss about her age. She doesn’t like being the center of attention. And up until her recent release, she was the oldest temple ordinance worker serving in the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple. Before moving to Utah, Sister Freiss lived in Arizona. She retired from her full-time job at age 83 and spent the next 10 years serving in the Mesa Arizona Temple. In 2012 she moved to Salt Lake, where...

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Watch the Jordan River Temple Get Built in 90 Seconds in Incredible Time-Lapse

Jannalee Sandau - Many visitors enjoyed the beauty of the Jordan River Temple open house over the past month, including a very rare, fascinating time-lapse of its original construction . As the open house has concluded and preparations for the rededication are in full swing, LDS Living has been given special permission to share the complete time-lapse video of this iconic temple for those who missed seeing it in the open house reception tent, or for those who simply want to watch it again!  All images and video courtesy of Kim Burgon ...