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This Week from the Pulpit: Our "Spiritual GPS," Improving Our Gospel Vocabulary and the "Zion Mentality"

Editor's note: "This Week from the Pulpit" highlights recent messages by General Authorities and general officers of the Church.

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Famous Latter-day Saints

Latter-day Saint MMA Fighter Talks Faith and How an MMA Fight Is Like the Gospel

By LDS Living Staff

Professional MMA fighter Westin Wilson sees no conflict between the religion he lives and his profession in Mixed Martial Arts. In fact, the father of two uses his fame and publicity as a platform to share the gospel.

Latter-day Saint Life

Why Ambiguity in the Gospel Is a Good Thing

By Bruce C. Hafen

This excerpt originally appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of LDS Living magazine.

Feature Stories

‘A great honor’: Latter-day Saint swimmer representing Puerto Rico in Olympics shares his faith

By Danielle Christensen

Butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle—it’s a swimming medley that would be intimidating to some, but for Jarod Arroyo, it’s his bread and butter. And this week, he has the chance to prove it at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Emily Estes

Emily Estes wears many hats- wife, best friend, mother of three, service operations executive, autism advocate and faithful Latter-day Saint- just to name a few. Emily attended Brigham Young University to study sociology while beginning a career in customer service. After establishing her career as a customer service manager, and one really bad sunburn, Emily met her husband Matthew in a Dayton, Ohio singles ward. One magical date with dinner and a 'Beatles' concert, and life has never been the same since! Emily, Matthew, their two boys and rambunctious shih tzu recently settled in Utah and patiently await the day when they can be reunited with their daughter in Heaven.

Latter-day Saint Life

How a Prompting That Made No Sense Led Me to My Husband

By Katie Lambert

It was my junior year and my seminary teacher was teaching us about ways we receive promptings. To illustrate, he mentioned one time he was prompted to find a case of hot sauce in a grocery store.

What a Machete-Clad Man Taught Me in the El Salvador Jungle: "The Road Is Good":

By Camron Wright

On a recent trip with my daughter to El Salvador (murder capital of the world), she suggested we eat at a restaurant that overlooks a scenic volcanic lake. It was to be a nice break from the humble homes we’d been visiting, so we mapped the route and followed Google’s blue arrow toward “the most delicious food we would eat all trip.”

Young Women Lesson 48: Short-Range Goals as Stepping Stones

Manual 1; Excerpt from "Never, Never, Never Give Up!," by Mary N. Cook

Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley Lesson 3: "Cultivating an Attitude of Happiness and a Spirit of Optimism"

By Kelly Merrill

Good attitudes often suffer from bad reputations. I know I have often accused my wife of being a “Pollyanna” when something was going terribly wrong and she piped in with how it could be seen to be going right. You might say this lesson was tailor-made for people like me. I wouldn’t call myself a pessimist (of course not!), but if something can go wrong, it usually does.