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5 Ways to Support Military Families in Your Ward

1. Be friendly.

BYU Study Reveals the 4 Keys to Help Your Family Thrive

In a 10-year longitudinal study, BYU researchers searched for the answer to the age-old question: What makes families thrive?

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4 Dangerous Myths We Need to Stop Telling Ourselves About Depression, Mental Health (+ How We Can Help Those Who Suffer, Including Ourselves)

By Phillip Price

Within Mormon culture, we seem to have difficulty understanding mental health and depression and knowing how to approach the issue, especially when thinking about the contrast of our mortality and spirituality.

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From Lebanon to Tokyo: LDS Women Share Personal, Inspiring Ways Relief Society Influenced Their Lives

What a great way to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Relief Society and show how this inspired organization has changed the lives of women around the world.

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How to Include Everyone in Your Temple Wedding (Even When Family and Friends Can't Watch the Sealing)

By Dawn Frandsen with Jamie Cline

There are many scenarios that would render inactive, newly baptized, or non-LDS families or friends unable to participate in a temple marriage ceremony. If your upcoming wedding plans include one of these scenarios, the decisions you make about ways to include those family and friends who will be unable to join you in the temple ceremony will affect not only the planning stage and the wedding day, but will probably have a lasting effect for many years to come. If your attitude is one of patience and inclusion, hearts can be softened and future relationships strengthened.

Harvard symposium for prevention of child sexual abuse shares 2 general conference talks on website

Two talks from the most recent general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were shared on Harvard’s Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse symposium website. Which two talks were they? Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s “Not as the World Giveth” and Sister Joy D. Jones’s “Essential Conversations.”

12 Things You Might Not Know about These Newly Called Church Leaders

By Greyson Gurley

General conference frequently brings new and exciting changes, and this April’s general conference proved to be no exception! From a brand new Young Men General Presidency to the sustaining of nine new General Authority Seventies, you could certainly say this Conference was truly “unforgettable” for these brethren.

From the Church

New Options Announced for Missionaries Amid COVID-19

By The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent the following letter on March 31, 2020, to all Latter-day Saints. See the latest updates on how COVID-19 is impacting Saints worldwide.

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How Monday Night Football and Monday FHE Became Official Within Weeks of Each Other

By Katie Lambert

From couches all across the nation, Latter-day Saint football fans will scarcely blink as the first Monday Night Football games of the season flash across their television screens.

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4 Symbols to Watch for the Next Time You're Outside a Temple

By Adapted from "Sacred Walls: Learning from Temple Symbols" by Gerald E. Hansen Jr.

The symbols in the temple are left to our own interpretation, with help from the Spirit. But occasionally there are special symbols incorporated into the exterior design of each edifice that have traditional, historical meaning— symbols that, once understood, can enhance our spiritual experience during our temple visits. Here are just a few. For more, check out Sacred Walls: Learning from Temple Symbols.