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Elder Cook: Sacrament Meeting Attendance "Has Spiritual Implications We Do Not Fully Understand"

Sacrament meeting is a special time each week where members can renew their baptismal covenants and draw strength from the Savior's Atonement.

Latter-day Saint Life

Sen. Orrin Hatch Proposes Bill to Speed Up Missionary Visa Applications

By LDS Living Staff

"Missionary service is the lifeblood for many churches across the nation, yet long and unpredictable visa delays are taking a toll on those who have answered the call to serve," Senator Orrin Hatch told the Deseret News after proposing a bill Wednesday that would help missionaries and volunteers of all faiths get their visas faster.

Here’s what to expect as some MTCs resume on-site training in the coming weeks

By Scott Taylor, Church News

A date of June 23 has been set for the reopening of the Provo and Ghana missionary training centers, with New Zealand welcoming new missionaries on July 1. For the Provo and New Zealand MTCs, these dates will usher in a new combination of online and on-site training going forward.

Bring the Temple Square organists into your home through streamed recitals

By The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square will begin a livestream organ recital series from the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square later this month.

From the Church

Anxious about the temple? How this temple matron overcame her hesitation to return after her first time

By Emily Linder

If you don't now love the temple or have fears about going back, this temple matron has advice on what do, and her thoughts come from personal experience.

Dave Says: Going Too Far?

By Dave Ramsey

Dear Dave,

D&C Lesson 35: "A Mission of Saving"

By Ted L. Gibbons

INTRODUCTION: Cain’s query of the Lord has echoed down the corridors of time: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Moses 5:34) And the answer has followed close at hand. Religious history is filled with tales of sacrifice made by men and women in behalf of their brothers and sisters. We have always considered that the greatest among us have been those willing to enter harm’s way in behalf of others, whether friends or strangers. It is proved conclusively by the firefighters and policemen who rushed into the towers of the World Trade Center while everyone else was rushing out. It is also exemplified by thousands of missionaries who have entered into the vineyard of the Lord to save souls and by faithful visiting and home teachers—and by a multitude of others.

Someone's hands holding a phone showing the For the Strength of Youth Instagram page.

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Join a worldwide read-a-thon with Latter-day Saint youth

By Deseret News

Youth, parents, and leaders are invited to participate by reading one chapter of the new “For the Strength of Youth” guide a week.

New Testament Lesson 36: "Beloved of God, Called to Be Saints"

By Ted L. Gibbons

Romans

From the Archives: The Young Woman’s Journal Reacts to the First Sister Missionaries

Two weeks ago I posted an excerpt from GQ Cannon’s announcement of the decision to formally call female missionaries. Today I look at the response in The Young Woman’s Journal (YWJ). [1] The first official, female, Mormon missionary, Harriet Nye, was set apart on 1898 March 27; Inez Knight and Jennie Brimhall followed on April 1 and Cannon’s speech was on April 6. I looked for references to the call of the first sister missionaries in Volume 9 of the YWJ, which ran January to December 1898 and was edited by Susa Young Gates. [2] Both the January and February issues contain articles defining just about any desirable activity as a form of missionary work. [3] The February issue also printed a speech by Church President Joseph F Smith that mentioned female missionaries . . .