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Messages for when it feels like social or spiritual progress is on pause

Editor's note: "This week from the pulpit" highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church.

This Week from the Pulpit: Elder Holland Details the Course to Christ and Other Messages about the Covenant Path

By Greyson Gurley

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

Missionary Shares Spiritual Experiences Following the Brussels Bombing Over the Pulpit

Though a harrowing event that has required surgery and months of recovery, Elder Mason Wells shared that he experienced many blessings after being injured in a terrorist attack in Belgium.

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Full Text of the October 2018 General Conference Talks Now Available Online

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The full text along with audio and video for each general conference session is now available on lds.org.

Cleanup under way at LDS Conference Center; pulpit spared

An electrical room was singed. Carpet and chairs in the main auditorium were soaked. But the wooden pulpit crafted from an LDS prophet’s backyard tree was spared. Such was the damage as crews began cleaning up Tuesday after a two-alarm fire at the LDS Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City this week.

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Want to add to your gospel study this week? These recent messages from Church leaders may be just what you need

Editor’s note: “This week from the Pulpit” highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church.

How we can stay ‘anxiously engaged’ without face-to-face interaction

By Emily Linder

Editor's note: "This week from the pulpit" highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church.

Unnamed Women of the Doctrine and Covenants: Lucy Mack Smith

Joseph Smith’s history has been told and canonized in scripture. You may be familiar with the names of the women close to him, but what do you know about their stories and roles in the Restoration? Today, we are focusing on the women from his family: Lucy Mack Smith (his mother) and Sophronia, Katharine, and Lucy (his three sisters).

What Church leaders said this week about racial harmony, loneliness, and the rising generation

By Emily Linder

Editor's note: "This week from the pulpit" highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church.

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How to Give a Powerful Talk: Tips from a Baptist Preacher Who Joined the Church

By Wain Myers and Kelly L. Martinez

Since becoming a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’ve encountered a few cultural differences that took a little adjustment. For example, in the Baptist church, the same preacher delivers the sermon almost every Sunday, so it was strange to me that in this Church we didn’t have the same preacher every week. To make things even stranger, it was folks from the congregation that delivered the sermons!