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{LDSL Blog} Best of: Stories of the Week, May 5-11

We all love a good story. And what better way to find out the best of the best than seeing what people found most interesting? For the week of May 5 through May 11, 2012, these are LDS Living’s top online stories:

Latter-day Saint Life

Latter-day Saint Perspective: What I Learned Parenting Jewish Kids for a Week

By Sarah Steele

When you have a friendship like the one that my friend Bethany and I do, it’s something you treasure. It’s a relationship that not only spans decades but that connects both cultural and physical distances with a strength that surpasses even the most securely engineered bridges.

From the Church

Church Statement on Missionary Airport Homecomings and Self-Isolation

By The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the following statement regarding self-isolation guidelines for missionaries and their families:

LDS Week in Review: 5 Must-Read Stories (June 14 - 20)

By LDS Living

LDS Family Services Discontinues Adoption Agency

Latter-day Saint Life

Missionaries Witness Touching Miracles After Helping a Cancer Patient in Simplest of Ways

By Phillip Price

David Tarabini had pancreatic cancer; he was weak and tired, but he was recovering. Every Friday, chemotherapy treatments always drained most of his energy, but each time returning home, he would have to ascend the stairs to his second story apartment.

From the Church

Recap the miracle of the gulls and crickets from ‘Saints, vol. 2’

By Excerpted from "Saints"

On June 9, 1848, one pioneer wrote to Brigham Young, “The seagulls have come in large flocks from the lake and sweep the crickets as they go. It seems the hand of the Lord is in our favor.”

Latter-day Saint Life

You Smashed That": Judges Praise Latter-day Saint as He Advances to Final 6 on "So You Think You Can Dance

By LDS Living

Last week was a difficult one for Ezra Sosa.

Latter-day Saint Life

LDS Mom of 6 Killed While Driving Home After Visiting "Miracle" Twins in NICU

By LDS Living Staff

After visiting her two "miracle" twin daughters in the NICU, 37-year-old Katie Evans was just a mile from her home in Santa Clarita, California, when another car struck her own, ejecting Evans from her car.

51: “I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord” (Malachi)

How do you know God loves you? Maybe you feel His love through simple things, like sunsets or the existence of your favorite ice cream. Or maybe tenderly answered prayers assure you that He cares. Gaining a testimony of God’s love isn’t a journey only relevant in today’s world—the people in Malachi’s day wrestled with the same thing. This week’s lesson in Malachi gives us many truths to “lay to heart” (Malachi 2:2) and is a perfect finale to what we’ve learned all year long: no matter what, God loves us.

11: “The Lord Was with Joseph” (Genesis 37–41)

Every family has stories that they don’t like to talk about. But when it comes to things like selling your brother as a slave into Egypt and lying about his death, Joseph’s brothers take uncomfortable family stories to a whole new level. But there are powerful lessons in this timeless story, and in today’s study of Genesis 34–41 we are going to study how these complex family stories impact us today.