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One year later, leaders call new Duty to God program 'ideal resource'

It's been a little over a year since Aaronic Priesthood quorums throughout the Church began utilizing the revised Duty to God program. For legions of deacons, teachers and priests across the globe, the program and its now familiar "learn, act and share" pattern have become a part of their daily lives as they serve, prayerfully study, learn and grow.In his worldwide duties as the Young Men general president, Brother David L. Beck has met with thousands of young men and their advisers, bishops and fathers. Such meetings have afforded him sacred moments to testify of the opportunities afforded by the Duty to God program. Already it has proven a priceless tool for earnest Aaronic Priesthood holders preparing for missions, future families and lives dedicated to learning and fulfilling their duty to the Lord.

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Jabari Parker, Mormon Athletes and Mission Decisions

On Thursday night, an N.B.A. team will select Jabari Parker, a 19-year-old basketball prodigy, with one of the top picks in the 2014 draft.

From the Church

Message from President Thomas S. Monson: 5 Years Later

It has been five years since I became President of the Church. At this time I feel it appropriate to review those five years and to look to the future. Throughout my years as a General Authority I have emphasized a need for the "rescue" of our brothers and sisters from many different situations which may be depriving them of all the blessings the gospel can provide. Since becoming President of the Church I have felt an increased urgency for us to be engaged in this rescue effort.

I Will Cause the Earth to Testify the Truth of These Things

By Jack S. Marshall

Elder LeGrand Richards responding to a question from Dr. Paul Cheesman, Director of Book of Mormon Studies at BYU's Religious Studies Center in the 1960’s said, “I heard Brother Callis once say that when Joseph Smith received the plates he got down on his knees before the Lord and said, “O God what will the world say?” And the voice of God came to him. “Fear not, I will cause the earth to testify the truth of these things.” (Taken from a letter from LeGrand Richards to Paul R. Cheesman, Dec. 30, 1969)

Latter-day Saint Life

Addressing 'Come, Follow Me' Misconceptions

Shortly before his release as general Sunday School president, Brother Russell Osguthorpe invited me and educator Brad Wilcox to join him in a Mormon Channel conversation about “Come, Follow Me.”

Man Solves WWII Mystery Using Family History and the Spirit

I was born in July 1946, so I never knew my mother’s next youngest brother, Richard Miller Merrill, a WWII B-24 navigator, who died when his plane crashed two days before his 20th birthday on a bombing mission over Vienna, Austria, October 17, 1944.

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BYU Basketball Star Returns Home from Mission to Italy

By LDS Living

After two long years apart, the Big 3 are back together again.

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RM, Former Green Bay Packers Player Reflects on Lessons from Mission

The minute I arrived in Uruguay as a missionary, I felt the heavy weight of the challenge that was before me. The life I had lived for the previous 19 years would be extremely different from what I was going to be doing for the next two years. The first big change was how I could carry myself. Pre-mission in the heat of competition, I had a short fuse that would explode at any sign of defeat (Especially when facing my older brother). I could care less who was hurt or offended along the way, I just wanted to win.

Youth branch provides a gathering place for Chicago-area Mormons

For Katie Mellor, a job offer from Chicago-based Leo Burnett came at an awkward time.

Mormon Who Plays Lead Role in Les Misérables Puts Family First

Fast-tracked through school, Tipoki, who plays piano, saxophone and violin, became one of the youngest students accepted into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Roles in The Lion King and the Queen musical We Will Rock You followed before she won the role of understudy for Elphaba in 2008.