A step-by-step guide for every first-time temple goer

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Over the past twenty years, creative director and graphic designer Jim Jackson has applied his skills to boost sales of many retail companies—Target, Best Buy, General Mills and others. But in the past year, he’s taken his sense of style and applied it to a business of his own. “I wear a tie every Sunday, which means I can grow tired of my choices really quickly,” says Jackson. “One day I was looking at my closet and could hardly stand to choose from the same old collection again.” As he talked with friends and family, he found that he wasn’t alone. “Many men I know work at jobs where they’re required to wear a tie every day. Then there are our missionaries, who surely grow tired of their ties before they even leave the MTC.”

There has been a lot of debate about whether or not Harriet Tubman’s face should be on the $20 bill. She was quite an extraordinary woman and you will learn a lot about her inspiring life in this dramatic biopic; however, viewers need to know that not everything in the film is historically accurate.

I was seventeen years old when my parents took us to meet Anthony.

Much like the beautifully crocheted and intricately designed cloths that are used to cover the altars in the temple, all of God’s children — the whole human race — are bound together by a single thread, said Sister Sharon Eubank, first counselor in the Relief Society general presidency.

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This is the third in a series of articles from Sister Wendy Watson Nelson's new book, The Heavens Are Open. Read the first part here or the second part here.

On her Instagram account @Just.Ingredients, Latter-day Saint mom Karalynne Call shares helpful information about healthy living and is followed by over 250 thousand accounts. Her own health journey began as a search to find healing from suicidal depression, but upon finding healing in her own life, Call couldn’t keep the information she was learning to herself. Still, she is a big believer that it is not healthy to live in extremes. On this week’s episode, All In host Morgan Jones spoke with the mother of six about how she works to help her children develop a healthy relationship with food.

Latter-day Saint Cliff Devries is the head diving coach at Rochester Institute of Technology. For nearly a quarter of a century, Devries has been partially paralyzed. Twenty-four years ago, Devries underwent an intensive surgery to remove a 6-inch-long tumor at the base of his brain stem, a procedure that left the right side of his body paralyzed. Yet in 2018, Devries participated in a simple birthday celebration that has been featured on ESPN. As Devries says in the video about this tradition, "From where I came from, it's magical. It's thrilling."