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12 fascinating facts about the new Primary General Presidency

By Emily Linder

We are excited to learn from these inspiring women! Here are four facts about each member of the presidency.

Latter-day Saint Life

The Most-Used Words in Conference: What I Learned from a Closer Look

By LDS Living Staff

Recently, I underwent a project to satisfy my personal curiosity: discovering what words were used the most during last year's general conference. I thought that if I looked at the text from a new perspective and if I really analyzed the words that were spoken, maybe new messages would somehow reveal themselves to me. Maybe I would find some deeper, surprising message that our Church leaders were trying to communicate.

Famous Latter-day Saints

How a Hollywood Fashion Designer Stood for Her Faith + Helped Shape Modern Temple Garments

By Susan Easton Black and Mary Jane Woodger

Did you know Rosie Marie Reid used her fashion popularity to raise funds for the Los Angeles California Temple? When the Church was building the Los Angeles California Temple, Rose Marie wanted to help as much as she could. She designed a beautiful one-piece white swimsuit that was covered in hand-sewn sequins. And which hands sewed most of that sequins on? Relief Society sisters that Rose Marie enlisted to help. All the proceeds of this particular swimsuit went directly to help build the Los Angeles California Temple in the 1950s.

Latter-day Saint Life

How Latter-day Saints #HearHim and what President Cordon learned from a surprise in the Salt Lake Temple time capsule

By Emily Linder

Editor's note: "This week from the pulpit" highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church.

{Single Saints} Dating Mythbusters

By Emily McClure

Part 1

Latter-day Saint Life

When a NFL Player Testified About Families in Mandarin + the Harrowing Experience Before His Mission That Strengthened His Testimony

By Chad Lewis

The following is part of former NFL player Chad Lewis's 2012 BYU Women's Conferenceaddress "Mormon’s Warning: Arming Your Home and Family." During his address, Lewis shared how his parents taught him how to strengthen his home and family through a tragedy that happened just months before his mission.

Latter-day Saint Life

How God Can Love His Children Equally Even While "He That Is Righteous Is Favored of God"

By Andrew C. Skinner

We could discuss many other qualities that God possesses, along with scriptural or prophetic verification. But one attribute of God seems to undergird and overarch all the rest: God is love (1 John4:8). He is the complete embodiment of that quality. To me, this means that God’s attribute of perfect love influences, shapes, and mediates all of his other qualities and characteristics.

Latter-day Saint Life

"Our Darkest Days": New Zealand Latter-day Saint Shares Touching Insights After Mosque Shootings

By Pania Matthews

The terrorist attacks at two Muslim mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, March 15, 2019, resulted in the hospitalization of 39 and death of 50 innocent Muslim men, women, and children. This act has been described by our prime minister as “forever a day etched in our collective memories. . . . That quiet Friday afternoon has become our darkest of days” (New Zealand Herald, 2019).

Latter-day Saint Life

How One Filmmaker Was Prompted to Be Baptized After 3 Dreams About the Church

By Greyson Gurley

When we think of ways to receive revelation, what comes to mind? We might think of inspiration coming to us through prayer to our Heavenly Father, while reading the scriptures, or writing in our journals—and maybe even while we are asleep.

What the Worldwide General Conference Choir Taught Me About Unity During Isolation

By Danielle Christensen

It was the conclusion of the last session of April 2020 general conference and President Henry B. Eyring announced that the closing song would be a prerecorded version of “We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet” by the Tabernacle Choir and six other choirs from around the world.