What I realized at Carthage Jail that’s helping me feel more peace

“I wondered why such bad things happened to the very people restoring the gospel. And then I stepped outside the jail.”
The ideas come from a recent article in Church magazines.
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Sharon believes this approach can lead to more lasting solutions.
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“We thank Thee for this occasion and all it signifies and symbolizes,” the Apostle said in the dedicatory prayer.
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Elder Renlund suggests this approach will help us better recognize revelation.
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September 26, 2025 02:29 PM MDT
Here are a few ways to press forward when life isn’t looking the way you hoped and prayed it would.
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September 26, 2025 01:40 PM MDT
“To serve in the temple is a sweet experience,” Therese Steadman said. “To serve with family is like icing on the cake.”
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September 22, 2025 02:49 PM MDT
Eugene Orr passed away on Monday, September 22, 2025, in Alberta, Canada.
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Podcasts

Exploring what it means to be “all in” the gospel of Jesus Christ
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Using our influence as women of God to make a difference in the world.
Connect with Latter-day Saint thought leaders in a personal way
September 22, 2025 09:55 AM MDT
“Scripture study has the power to change families.”
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September 22, 2025 09:54 AM MDT
Shannon Foster knows what it’s like to struggle with scripture study—and she’s found a solution.
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September 19, 2025 02:10 PM MDT
“There is something really powerful about incremental growth,” Sheri says. “I think in the Lord’s mercy, He understood this.”
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January 06, 2020 03:56 PM MST
Winterfest is Brigham Young University’s winter performance series in Salt Lake City. From January 31 to March 14, 2020, performing groups from Brigham Young University will entertain audiences at the Conference Center Theater.
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January 06, 2020 03:44 PM MST
Most people probably haven’t heard of John Howland, an indentured servant who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower in 1620. Historic names like William Bradford, John Carver, and Myles Standish are likely more familiar.
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January 06, 2020 11:00 AM MST
Many Church members are familiar with the account of the First Vision contained in the Pearl of Great Price, but not all members are familiar with a version that combines all nine surviving accounts into one.
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January 04, 2020 12:00 PM MST
In the New Testament, the Savior asks a question that David Butler says seems “ridiculous” on the first read. Jesus asks, “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” (Luke 15:4). It wasn’t until Butler found himself separated from his son at Disneyland that he began to understand what the Savior meant.
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January 04, 2020 11:00 AM MST
Shortly after I was born, I was baptized as a Catholic. Even though my parents weren’t practicing members of the Catholic church, they still had some belief in God and felt it was the right thing to do.
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January 03, 2020 04:21 PM MST
From the Book of Mormon videos released by the Church to new study guides and journals, several resources are now available to help Latter-day Saints as they study of the Book of Mormon this year.
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January 03, 2020 04:07 PM MST
With Come, Follow Me entering into its second year of study, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can find new study material and resources to aid in their Book of Mormon study.
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January 03, 2020 02:17 PM MST
Sometimes as Latter-day Saints and human beings, we have so much to do that we forget to take time to be. Elder Holland has said, "As King Benjamin cautioned his people, it is not intended that we run faster than we have strength and all things should be done in order (see Mosiah 4:27).” But despite that, I know that many of you run very fast and that your energy and emotional supply sometimes registers close to empty."
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January 03, 2020 05:00 AM MST
The day after his daughter’s death, Bryan Young was saying a prayer on his parents’ front porch as the sun was rising. And in that moment, he heard her voice—it was as close to audible as ever a spiritual voice had been to him.
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