How one couple raised 8 kids to recognize the Spirit for themselves

Harry and Debra Bonner intentionally taught their children to recognize the Spirit.
“I express appreciation for members of the Church and for all who minister in quiet and consistent ways.”
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“Most people would say it’s value is 10 dollars. But for me, it is priceless.”
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“Literally everything that I have up until this point is because of my mission.”
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“The time to act on truth is now. The time to make covenants and fully keep them is now.”
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“It was amazing for me to watch my mother wake up from her depression and become like herself again.”
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The song began in a small inn in the Cotswolds in England.
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“I know this is weird,” a woman from my ward said while standing on my porch.
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This effort will provide nutrition to millions of children and mothers around the world.
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March 25, 2021 12:00 PM MDT
My dear grandmother recently passed away just a few days shy of her 100th birthday. My father tells the story of speaking with her many years ago, not long after he married my mother.
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Editor's note: This press release was first published on March 12, 2021, and updated on March 24, 2021, with the following information about the Manti Utah Temple:
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March 24, 2021 03:00 PM MDT
After a few months of praying that his lost rottweiler, Skye, would return home Matthew Ray Banks’s prayers changed.
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March 24, 2021 12:00 PM MDT
Ryan Blubaugh’s conversion story is filled with seeds being planted throughout his life, including by a friend in high school—a friend he would reach out to on Facebook after 29 years.
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March 23, 2021 05:43 PM MDT
For many Latter-day Saints, awaiting the mission call of a loved one means that it’s time for everyone to make their guesses regarding where the future missionary will be called to serve. Now, thanks to a new free app, it is easy to collect everyone’s guesses in one place.
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March 23, 2021 04:51 PM MDT
Last week, LDS Living spotlighted eight contestants on this season of American Idol who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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March 23, 2021 12:00 PM MDT
For some people, the fact that women are not ordained to the priesthood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a sticking point, a hot topic, and even a potential media controversy. Others aren't troubled by the issue at all. But wherever you fall on that spectrum, you'll be fascinated by this doctrinal exploration of a topic that is crucial for both women and men to understand.
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March 23, 2021 12:00 PM MDT
On Friday evening, April 6, 1984, Dallin H. Oaks was in Tucson, Arizona, where he and two others sat as moot court judges at the University of Arizona Law School. When the competition ended, the three judges went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner and an awards presentation. During festivities before dinner—“cocktails for others; nachos for me,” Dallin wrote—he was called to the phone near the restaurant’s cash register. “I went to the cash register,” Dallin recalled, “and a mariachi band was whanging away in the background. It was a chaotic scene.”
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March 22, 2021 06:11 PM MDT
In a music video released on Sunday, March 21, 2021, the voices of The Bonner Family take on a beloved Latter-day Saint hymn, “Come, Come, Ye Saints.”
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