This simple way of gathering helps Relief Society sisters find real connection

From Utah to Brazil and Japan to Canada, the First Presidency has called eight new mission presidents and their wives to begin their new callings in July. Their biographies will be published through 2018 on news.lds.org.

Recently, Donny Osmond shared the hilarious and unexpected story of why the Los Angeles Police Department rushed to a radio station in Hollywood after the station played Donny Osmond's "Puppy Love" over and over. Here's what the police found out after arriving at the radio station:

Lynn Rosenvall and his son David Rosenvall had an idea: what if they digitally reformatted the Book of Mormon–without changing a single word—to help them study the scriptures in a whole new way? The result still contained the words of ancient prophets, but it was something no one had seen before.

In our modern world, where people purchase steaks and roasts in neatly sealed packages at the supermarket, it is difficult for most of us to understand what it really means to kill an animal. Taking a life is a serious matter, and in ancient Israel, sacrifice followed a specific sequence:

The Church has released a gorgeous artistic rendering of the first temple to be built in Thailand—the Bangkok Temple.

Some of us devote our lives to doing everything the instruction book outlines and then consider good feelings our right. And then we are angry when peace does not accompany our accomplishment. We may become exhausted from the effort, and still we do not have a feeling of well-being. We feel we have done our part and have been cheated.

Dear S.,

President Heber J. Grant made an applicable remark:

During an interview with the Deseret News, billionaire Gail Miller shared powerful insights into her life as the wife of Larry H. Miller and into what it's like being a woman in business. Among her powerful responses, Gail explained how her faith has grown as an LDS woman and shared an important message for LDS women living in the world today.