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Debunking the Salt Lake Temple Elevator Myth

Latter-day Saint legends. We’ve all heard at least one of them in our life time—an incredible story that sounds almost too inspiring to be true because, well, it isn’t. One that I’ve heard multiple times over the years has to do with the iconic Salt Lake Temple. It goes something like this:

{Single Saints} Greener Pastures Right Where You Are

By Ryan Kunz

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from being single, it’s that the grass isn’t always greener in future pastures. I typically have a disdain for clichés, especially those that assume I share behaviors with livestock, but this one describes how I sometimes feel.

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LDS Stake's Life-Sized Ark of Covenant and Tabernacle Opens for Tours, Thousands Visit

By LDS Living

A life-sized Old Testament tabernacle replica has been brought to Chino Hills, California, and is open for public tours this week.

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Adorable Video: LDS 3-Year-Old Sings Unbelievable Rendition of "Little Mermaid" Song

Claire Ryann Crosby is entertaining people the world over with her impressive and viral rendition of "Part of Your World." Oh, and she's only 3 years old!

SPONSORED: Head of the Class launches infant and toddler learning site

Prescott, Arizona: Head of the Class, LLC., announced today its release of its Head of the Class Infant & Toddler Web site, available to users from within Facebook with the click of a mouse! Immediately becoming Facebook’s premier education application (app), Head of the Class Infant & Toddler provides several hundred skills parents, as well as soon-to-be parents, must know. For newborns, one-year old, two-year old, and three-year old children, the site provides must-know content.

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New App Promises to Help YW Complete Their Personal Progress Experiences in Less Than a Year

By LDS Living

To a busy teen, completing Personal Progress experiences can seem like a daunting task—or it used to.

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Author Steve Lemmon Launches New Book Series for the Young at Heart

By Steve Lemmon (Sponsored)

Author Steve Lemmon was inspired to write a series that combines his love for the Savior with his love for travel and fun and he’s done it just in time to whisk your family on a grand adventure.

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Elder Holland Tells Boy Scouts of America Leaders Duty to God Is a Way of Life

“In a day when some people are using religious faith to divide the human family, this little gathering is a bold declaration that commitment to deity can and should be a powerful, uniting force in this world,” said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during a national meeting of Scout leaders. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is holding its annual gathering in San Diego, California, where Elder Holland was the keynote speaker during a breakfast meeting Thursday, May 26, 2016.

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The most frustrating sacrament talk I’ve ever heard (and what it taught me about how we should speak in church)

By Danielle B. Wagner

In that moment, I realized that the talks we give in our wards don't need to be sermons—they need to be real.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Lesson 2: "Behold, I Am Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World"

By Ted L. Gibbons

If the major purpose of all scripture is to bear testimony of Christ, (and I believe it is) then the Doctrine and Covenants makes a remarkable contribution to that testimony. With few exceptions, everything that the Doctrine and Covenants teaches us about the Savior is taught in the actual words of the Savior. Almost all scripture is in some way about Christ. But the Doctrine and Covenants is by Christ. The words are His words. The voice is His voice. Most of the information in the Doctrine and Covenants is given in the first person singular by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.