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Emma Smith didn’t keep a journal that we know of and didn’t leave many personal writings. But historian Jennifer Reeder has been able to put many of the puzzle pieces together.

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It was like a shotgun going off in my face when a noted psychiatrist told me that my son will likely suffer the same fate as did my wife. Both my beloved wife, Debbie, of 23 years and my father-in-law committed suicide. He struggled with severe depression and in 1978 fatally overdosed on medications to escape his suffering. Then, sixteen years later, my wife Debbie succumbed to the same fate of suicide.

Children are one of the greatest blessings in life, and their birth into loving and nurturing families is central to God’s purposes for humanity. When husband and wife are physically able, they have the privilege and responsibility to bring children into the world and to nurture them. The decision of how many children to have and when to have them is a private matter for the husband and wife.

T.C. Christensen’s career in filmmaking evidently started with his favorite food. “I was probably sitting on the couch, eating potato chips,” he said with a playful smile, “And in between bites, thought, ‘Hmmm, movies.’”

Aaron D. Franklin is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and chemistry at Duke University. A native of Phoenix, Arizona, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and a doctorate from Purdue University, both in electrical engineering. Prior to becoming a professor, he worked as a research scientist at IBM, studying nanotechnology. He is a frequent speaker and the author of The Spiritual Physics of Light: How We See, Feel, and Know Truth. He and his wife, Lianne Walters Franklin, are the parents of three children and reside in Cary, North Carolina.

“All In” host Morgan Jones talks with two historians, Janiece Johnson and Jenny Reeder, who work to uncover and bring to light the stories of women in Church history. Janiece and Jenny discuss how Church history has strengthened rather than weakened their testimonies, the women they most admire from the past and what it means to be “All In” the gospel of Jesus Christ. They also discuss the historicity of “Jane and Emma” and whether it is okay to fictionalize history in film.

Here are 7 beautiful quotes to help you and your family remember why we celebrate Easter.

Kristin Gerdy Kyle was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, and is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program at BYU Law where she has taught since 1996. Passionate about teaching and mentoring law students, Kristin strives to create a nurturing, spiritually enriching environment that supports not only her students' academic success but also their spiritual and mental well-being. When she married Glenn Kyle in 2018, she became a wife, bonus mom to seven, and grandmother—all on the same day. Now, they have only one child left at home and six grandchildren. Kristin has had a lifelong love of and involvement in music, including spending nine years singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 2010-1018. Kristin and Glenn live in St. George, Utah where she serves as an ordinance worker in the Red Cliffs Temple and as her ward’s organist. Kristin is also a devoted Pom Mom to a "garage" full of tiny pups—first Cruise, then Corvette, and now Porsche. Her hobbies include baking, cheering for the Colorado Avalanche and BYU Cougars, collecting cookbooks, and indulging in Diet Dr. Pepper. She approaches life with faith, enthusiasm, and a touch of zeal.