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President Oaks teaches that we are not better than others; Elder Stevenson says ‘membership has its privileges’—and its responsibilities
LDS Living
- Editor’s note: “ This week from the Pulpit ” highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church. Speaking to missionaries of the Salt Lake Temple Square Mission, President Dallin H. Oaks taught that there are three key things that make The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth”: the fulness of His doctrine, the power of His priesthood, and a unique testimony of Jesus Christ, as reported by Church News . However, President Oaks taught that this should not create in members of the...
Watch: BYU Speeches shares the parable of the bicycle in this new inspiring short
Lindsey Williams
- It’s a story almost anyone can relate to: A 7-year-old girl asks her father if she can have a bicycle, saying she is the only kid on the block without one. The father tells her if she saves all her pennies, she will soon have enough to buy a bicycle. Stephen E. Robinson, then a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, shared this story about his daughter in a May 1990 BYU Devotional , and now BYU Speeches has turned it into an inspiring short which has already garnered over 19,000 views. Robinson shared that his daughter did start...
Why there were only 6 founding members of the Church and more facts about the historic event
Haley Lundberg
- Many of this year's Come, Follow Me lessons could be considered history lessons as much as they are teachings of gospel principles. This week's lesson on the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830, is no exception, and I found myself digging into the historical context and importance of those events even more than usual. Here are a few of the questions—and the subsequent answers—I found in my personal study of Doctrine and Covenants 20–22 . Why were there only six founding members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? According to...
What helped this Latter-day Saint woman keep her faith after 3 of her adopted children were abruptly taken back
LDS Living
- In this week's episode of This Is the Gospel , Holly and her husband never imagined they would adopt multiple children during their lifetime. But after seeing the devastation of the Romanian Revolution, Holly and her husband felt the Spirit directing them to adopt children who were hard to place or neglected. And after feeling confirmation from the Spirit to adopt three girls from Africa in 2006, Holly felt that their family was about to grow yet again—until a devastating turn of events caused Holly to question her faith and trust in the Spirit. An adapted story from this week's episode...
Richard E. Turley Jr.: How I came to write ‘In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks’
Richard E. Turley Jr.
- Youth often choose prominent persons as role models, never really expecting to meet them. I chose such a role model when I was in my teens. His name was Dallin H. Oaks. I turned 15 in 1971, the year he became president of Brigham Young University. Like many active Latter-day Saint youth living outside Utah, I longed to feel a connection with others of my faith who wanted to live the Church’s standards. That made me want to attend BYU, even though my academic record qualified me for attending better-known universities. Attending a summer conference at BYU in 1971 only increased...
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Richard E. Turley Jr.: How I came to write ‘In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks’
Richard E. Turley Jr.
- Youth often choose prominent persons as role models, never really expecting to meet them. I chose such a role model when I was in my teens. His name was Dallin H. Oaks. I turned 15 in 1971, the year he became president of Brigham Young University. Like many active Latter-day Saint youth living outside Utah, I longed to feel a connection with others of my faith who wanted to live the Church’s standards. That made me want to attend BYU, even though my academic record qualified me for attending better-known universities. Attending a summer conference at BYU in 1971 only increased...
Led to the Savior: How Sister Aburto found healing from both sides of the veil after tragedy
Lindsey Williams
- Editor's note: This article is the cover story of the March/April 2021 issue of LDS Living magazine. To the average person, the date of October 15, 1989, might not hold much significance. But for Sister Reyna I. Aburto, this day changed her life forever. And it all started with the moment she chose to reach for the Savior. Living in San Francisco, California, 26-year-old Reyna had just been through a painful final separation from her first husband and was doing the best she could to provide for herself and for her 3-year-old son, Xavier. Though her days were full and busy,...
OCD, God, and me: One woman's experience with scrupulosity
Whitney Vogrinec, Contributor
- Growing up, my family held family home evenings (FHE) that felt more like listening to a general conference talk than the usual games and short lessons I saw in friends’ homes. And while I am now grateful that those lessons taught me the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I also recognize that as a young girl, I understood those things as a child. 1 Over time, however, my mind morphed the principles I’d learned in FHE to crushing ideals I could never reach. I kept on as best I could, until two years ago when I knew going on...
Watch: Sister Craven and Brother Wilcox answer the question, ‘Is it bad to participate in the Church out of a sense of duty?’
LDS Living
- Colby is a teenager approaching adulthood and he has a question: Is it bad to participate in the Church out of a sense of duty? “It seems like there’s a set plan that we’re supposed to follow: Mission, BYU . . ., marriage, and children, in that order. It just seems like a wall of expectations that you’re supposed to climb and if you don’t quite measure up to that then there’s something wrong with you or you’re not as strong in your testimony as you should be,” Colby explains. His question is a part of the Real Questions series ....
Adapting and thriving in the new normal: 4 ways missionaries are sharing the gospel during the pandemic
Norman C. Hill, Contributor
- The COVID-19 pandemic has practically turned the world upside down, including the world of missionary work. With many missionaries having to spend more time in their apartments and navigate other social restrictions to their work, they need to find new ways of sharing the gospel. As the Savior said, “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved” ( Matthew 9:17 ). Yes, new wine in new bottles—that’s something that we can all get behind. Elder...
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Watch: BYU Speeches shares the parable of the bicycle in this new inspiring short
Lindsey Williams
- It’s a story almost anyone can relate to: A 7-year-old girl asks her father if she can have a bicycle, saying she is the only kid on the block without one. The father tells her if she saves all her pennies, she will soon have enough to buy a bicycle. Stephen E. Robinson, then a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, shared this story about his daughter in a May 1990 BYU Devotional , and now BYU Speeches has turned it into an inspiring short which has already garnered over 19,000 views. Robinson shared that his daughter did start...
Why there were only 6 founding members of the Church and more facts about the historic event
Haley Lundberg
- Many of this year's Come, Follow Me lessons could be considered history lessons as much as they are teachings of gospel principles. This week's lesson on the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830, is no exception, and I found myself digging into the historical context and importance of those events even more than usual. Here are a few of the questions—and the subsequent answers—I found in my personal study of Doctrine and Covenants 20–22 . Why were there only six founding members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? According to...
Richard E. Turley Jr.: How I came to write ‘In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks’
Richard E. Turley Jr.
- Youth often choose prominent persons as role models, never really expecting to meet them. I chose such a role model when I was in my teens. His name was Dallin H. Oaks. I turned 15 in 1971, the year he became president of Brigham Young University. Like many active Latter-day Saint youth living outside Utah, I longed to feel a connection with others of my faith who wanted to live the Church’s standards. That made me want to attend BYU, even though my academic record qualified me for attending better-known universities. Attending a summer conference at BYU in 1971 only increased...
5 of my favorite moments from spending 48 minutes with the Holland family
Lindsey Williams
- RootsTech Family Discovery Day has looked very similar for years—thousands of eyes on the massive stage at the Salt Palace, a beloved Church leader or leaders sharing an inspiring message, and a broadcast enabling those not in attendance physically to experience a taste of connection. But in 2021, Family Discovery Day looked different. The in-person audience for Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s and Sister Patricia Holland’s remarks was small. But the members of that audience included those who are most important to the Hollands—their own children. The backdrop of Family Discovery Day is southern Utah, and through video, photographs, and a tour...
President Oaks teaches that we are not better than others; Elder Stevenson says ‘membership has its privileges’—and its responsibilities
LDS Living
- Editor’s note: “ This week from the Pulpit ” highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church. Speaking to missionaries of the Salt Lake Temple Square Mission, President Dallin H. Oaks taught that there are three key things that make The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth”: the fulness of His doctrine, the power of His priesthood, and a unique testimony of Jesus Christ, as reported by Church News . However, President Oaks taught that this should not create in members of the...
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Watch Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert with Tom Brokaw, Alfie Boe, WWII Candy Bomber
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Veteran newscaster Tom Brokaw and Tony Award-winning tenor Alfie Boe join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in a concert of holiday favorites and inspiring surprises.
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