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Latter-day Saint Life
The Country With the Largest Number of Mormons Per Capita and How Members Live Their Faith
By Fred E. Woods and Devan Jensen, with Katie Lambert
Mormon missionaries first arrived in Tonga in 1891, in the midst of a sea of religious turmoil, landing on the southern island group of Tongatapu. Their journals record vital details that might otherwise have been lost, including stories about their initial meeting with the king of Tonga to seek permission to preach the gospel, their urgent need for housing, and request to the premier of Tonga to build a mission home and school in Mu‘a.
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What I Would Have Missed, If I Had Died: an LDS Woman's Story of Hope After Attempting Suicide
By M.C. Sutton, author of "Why I Left the Church Is Also Why I Came Back"
Nothing about me is typical. I’m not your average American white woman. Your average mother and wife. Your average student. Your average Mormon.
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Latter-day Saint Life
4 Tips for Managing Your Family's Screen Time
By Maddie Tolk
Technology can be an amazing blessing. It allows us to connect with family and friends, to spread the gospel, to participate in family history work, and to access spiritual and educational resources almost instantly. While technology can be a powerful tool for good, it can also be a distraction from the things that matter most. In a CES devotional for young adults, Elder Ballard taught:
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Fun
How the Book of Mormon Calmed One Woman During a Panic Attack and Led to Her Join the Church
By Rachel Nielson
The missionaries called her sassy. Today over 1,200 people know her as SassyDaySaint.
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Latter-day Saint Life
One Little Boy's Question and a Mission Experience That Reveal God Loves Us as a Father
By Trent Toone
It was a ridiculous question for David Butler's son to ask.
How Online Genealogy Changed the Lives of Three Members
Latter-day Saint Life
How Online Genealogy Changed the Lives of These Three Members
By Sunny Morton
When FamilySearch announced last year that Latter-day Saints would be able to receive free access to three major genealogy websites, there was a collective gasp across the genealogical community-at-large. Subscriptions to Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, and MyHeritage.com can total up to about $900 a year. At the upper extreme, this represents about $13.5 billion in free genealogy resources for more than 15 million Church members.
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Latter-day Saint Life
How the Rome Italy Temple Is a Miracle 2,000 Years in the Making
By Chad S. Hawkins, author of "Temples of The New Millennium," and Jenny Hunt
The history of Rome spans more than 2,500 years. Ancient writers and poets described it as “The Eternal City,” or la Città Eterna, and it continues to live up to its name as one of the longest-enduring cities in the world. This March, many of Rome’s visitors will be Latter-day Saints gathering for the dedication of the first house of the Lord in Italy. This temple is the result of an untold number of prayers, struggles, and miracles—a symbolic victory of ancient and modern Christianity.
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Latter-day Saint Life
What the Church has actually said about suicide: Comforting answers from Church leaders
By Katie Lambert
Suicide—there are no words that describe the anguish that word brings to those affected by it. Unfortunately, some know that anguish all too well.
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Lesson Helps
Book of Mormon Lesson 44: "I Speak Unto You as if You Were Present"
By Ted L. Gibbons
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
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From the Church
What Was the Council of Fifty? 5 Things Mormons Need to Know
By LDS Living
Historians have long known of the existence of the Council of Fifty and the minutes of its meetings. Until recently, though, the minutes had never been made available for historical research. Because of their inaccessibility—and because historians knew that they were made during a critical and controversial era of Mormon history—a mystique grew surrounding the records. What did they contain? Why had they been withheld? Here are five insights from these important documents that every Mormon should understand about the Council of Fifty, as adapted from the new book The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History.