Why I’m so grateful someone pushed through awkwardness to serve

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"I really think that (my family) would feel honored and happy to know that because of what happened to them, so much has happened and lives have been saved,” Jensen Parrish said about the tragedy that took her mother, father, and two younger brothers.

After holding a devotional at Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners in a stadium that can hold 47,000, President Russell M. Nelson will then speak at the Langley Centre, home of the Vancouver Giants, the Church announced Wednesday.

Shortly before leaving with Team USA on July 19 for the XXXI CMAS World Spearfishing Championship in Portugal, Kelston McGuire met with his LDS stake president.

“As aspiring Christians but still imperfect saints, we may not always understand the struggles of others or know how to help, but we can always love them, creating safe spaces where others — and often we ourselves — can struggle with the ‘hard sayings’ in life,” BYU professor Eric D. Huntsman said.

When asked who W. W. Phelps is and what he might be remembered for, most Latter-day Saints respond with something like this: “Didn’t he write (or compose) many of our hymns?” But when pressed, most even have difficulty identifying all of Phelps’s most frequently sung hymns such as “The Spirit of God,” “Now Let Us Rejoice,” “Redeemer of Israel,” “Praise to the Man,” “O God, the Eternal Father,” and “If You Could Hie to Kolob.” Virtually none realizes that in the Church’s most recent hymnal, Hymns (1985), Phelps has the largest number of songs attributed in some way to him. He has 15, more than any other composer or author except Evan Stephens.

Do we understand who we really are? Do we grasp the significance of the divine potential that lies within each of us? Based on the decisions I see many people make—decisions that seem to be founded on temporal trivia rather than eternal truth—I’m afraid the answer is "No, not really."

Though all scriptures are powerful and inspired, some of them stand out for their poetic language and use of imagery. Here are just 30 of our favorite, beautiful lines from scripture.

I fell in love with Kelly Clarkson’s voice as a 13-year-old little girl watching American Idol. I’ll shamelessly admit that I still, nearly 16 years later, get teary-eyed each time I see the clip of her singing “A Moment Like This” after being named the reality show’s inaugural winner.