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32: "Preserved by His Marvelous Power" (August 10–16)

On a scale of 1–10, how busy are you? Okay, okay, maybe the scale should be 1–1,000,000 with all the things we have to do nowadays. But what if some of our perceived duties are actually distractions that hold us back? In this week’s study group, we’ll dig into Alma 53–63 and discover how distractions, big and small, can be destructive in our lives.

Latter-day Saint Life

How one man’s prompting led to his nearly 80-year-old mother’s baptism

When Chris Schoebinger was a senior in high school, he moved out of his home and into the home of, unbeknownst to him, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

How love and faith can grow, even when one spouse stops believing

For years, Matt Duff was an über-Mormon. At 17, he ran away from home and moved in with the only black LDS family in his New England town. Two weeks shy of his 18th birthday, he joined the Utah-based church. By 19, he was on a Mormon mission in Denver, and two years later he enrolled at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he met his future wife, Kylee, a multigenerational Mormon with a winning smile and a guileless faith. The two married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

Famous Latter-day Saints

The Profound Advice Annie Schmidt Wrote to Her Brothers Before Her Death

By Michelle Schmidt

On October 19, 2016, Jon and Michelle Schmidt discovered that their daughter was missing. After a three-week search, her body was discovered in Columbia River Gorge National Forest in Oregon. In this excerpt from her new book, Carried, Michelle shares the profound words Annie left behind.

Teachings of George Albert Smith Lesson 2: Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself

Excerpt from "'The First and Great Commandment,'" by Robert F. Orton

Temple Worship

After a heated argument, my husband suggested we start this spiritual habit—and we found peace

By Shima Baradaran Baughman

It would be hard to overstate the lasting impact the decision to attend the temple once a week has had on our marriage and on my life.

Podcasts

Lisa Valentine Clark on how to comfort those who are mourning: ‘We are not meant to do this alone’

On June 5, 2020, Christopher Clark passed away after a four-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Just days before, he and his wife, Lisa Valentine Clark, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Now, she feels her husband’s absence every day and was so overwhelmed with grief and sorrow that she just wanted to “marinate in it”. In this week’s episode of All In, Lisa discusses what she has learned from the process of grief and how to comfort those who stand in need of comfort, even if they may not want it.

Podcasts

2 things that helped 1 Latter-day Saint woman when she felt God was silent

For about 20 years Emily Robison Adams felt like she had not been getting answers from God on direct questions. So when God was silent again about whether the Book of Mormon was true, she became worried.

A woman holds a sacrament tray with water cups

Latter-day Saint Life

Want more spiritual power? Focus on this word during (and after) the sacrament

By Maddie Tolk

While we sometimes forget the true meaning of this word, saying it intentionally draws spiritual strength into our lives.

Bound for Zion, 1887

I love reading accounts of the Mormon emigrant experience, whether crossing the ocean, riding the trains, or traveling by wagon or handcart. Most of our stories come from the early years of that travel: Everybody seemed to recognize the significance of pioneering; fewer people recorded the experience of traveling when emigration had become “routine.” But it was never routine for the people involved – even when the months of sail travel had shrunk to a week aboard a steamer, and when months of Plains walking had collapsed to a week on the rails, “coming to Zion” was a pivotal moment in an emigrant’s life, probably the greatest adventure of his life.