Celine and David Morton, proud residents of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, have shared a rich marriage of 29 years, blessed with a vibrant (you know what that means) family comprising five children—Jared, Ireland, Gabriel, Max, and Jack—along with their ever rotating animal companions from birds to ferrets, rats and orphaned squirrels but currently simply two dogs and three cats. Celine's passion for photography, flower collecting and mountaineering, fused with her frequent (somewhat embarrassing) bursts of song and dance, makes sure the home is anything but typical. Meanwhile, David, is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Utah, where he teaches anatomy and physiology to aspiring medical, dental, PA, PT, and OT students. He serves as bishop in their home ward and also maintains a YouTube channel teaching anatomy to prospective learners across the globe. Both children of European immigrants Celine and David share a love for travel, and food and music from all cultures. If it would make a great story to tell, they are willing to try anything. Including, being guests on this podcast.

Sexuality. I know it’s a word that we don’t address head-on in Mormon culture that often, but I’ve found it to be a central part of fully understanding and living the gospel.

One of the messages that the Book of Mormon sends to us across the years is that parents (particularly fathers) have an obligation to bless their children and to teach their children and to bear testimony to them. The Book of Mormon contains several chapters in which men like Lehi, Alma, Helaman, and Mormon are engaged in this work. When we read such things in this book, we must do more than believe the doctrine: we must follow the example. In fact, we will devote a lesson to this matter lesson #29 when we study Alma 36-39. This present lesson and the next will focus on what seem to be Lehi’s final admonitions to his children. Nephi tells us this of these teachings:

Nine-year-old Sophie Fellows was in the middle her holiday violin concert in Vermont, when suddenly, her head began to throb.

While traveling through Arkansas, President Wilford Woodruff and the elders traveling with him decided to pay a visit to a Mormon family living in the area.

An updated website from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offers a more helpful and hopeful approach for Latter-day Saints seeking protection, help and healing from pornography use. The web address has also changed. Addressingpornography.lds.org has replaced overcomingpornography.org.

Emotionally and physically exhausted, President Heber J. Grant worried over his 7-year-old son— who lay seriously ill and in excruciating pain. President Grant was terrified at the idea of losing another child, having already lost one son, but then an other-worldly dream comforted his breaking heart, preparing him for the pain which was to come.

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Latter-day Saint Charities’ global footprint expanded in 2019 to bless millions of lives in 142 countries and territories through 3,221 completed projects with 2,000 partners. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ humanitarian organization released these numbers and more today in its 2019 Annual Report.

“I received my patriarchal blessing when I was getting ready to head to college and at a crossroads. … There was a pull to serve a mission, but I needed divine direction before I left home. I needed to figure out who I was.”