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Latter-day Saint Life
The Powerful Answer a Latter-day Saint Received After Wondering if She Was Good Enough for the Temple
Early on, Latter-day Saints are taught how sacred temples are. They are houses of Lord, the only locations on earth where the ordinances necessary for the eternal salvation of the living and the dead can be performed. Which may cause some Latter-day Saints to wonder: am I good enough to be here?
Preparing Youth for the Temple
By LDS Living Staff
Until the time a child turns 8, teaching is usually focused on baptism: its importance, its symbolism, its purpose. But what happens between 8 and 12? Are the 12-year-olds of the church prepared to enter the temple and do baptisms for the dead? Do they understand the sacredness of the place and the reverent respect it deserves? By making the temple a familiar and well-loved part of your child’s growing years, and by preparing even more after baptism, your child can have a greater appreciation for and be better prepared to enter the sacred house of the Lord. This was inspired by a recent ldschurchnews article by the Primary general presidency.
Living Prophets Lesson 3: John Taylor
By Rebecca K. Irvine
Defender of the Faith
LDS Response to the Relocation of Joseph’s and Hyrum’s Graves, 1928
When the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum Smith were returned to Nauvoo following their martyrdom in Carthage, Illinois, a public funeral was held with a burial in the city cemetery. Known to only a very few, very trusted people was the fact that the caskets buried in the cemetery held only bags of sand or stone. The bodies had been removed from those caskets for secret burial. As published in the Deseret News in 1857:
Are we living in the day prophesied by Heber C. Kimball?
I’ve been exploring the internet going on four years, viewing websites and blogs that present information about the Mormon church. Most of the sites I visit are created and visited by members and former members of the church. The subject matter of post and the comments made range widely. On one side of the continuum are sites written and frequented by church members who are filled with faith, on the other extreme are members who have left the church, but can’t leave the church alone. Then there is a large group of members who are in the middle. Their sites are frequented by members whose faith can be described as fragile.
Latter-day Saint Life
Video: RM Shares Brutally Honest Story of Addiction & the Power of the Atonement
Recently, LDS Youth posted this moving video to their YouTubepage, one that mingles counsel from Elder Robert D. Hales with the heartbreaking story of a returned missionary who learned about the depths of addiction as well as the infinite depths of the atonement.
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 . . .
From the Church
Church to Close Argentina MTC
Church spokesman Daniel Woodruff gave the following statement on February 8, 2019, regarding the closure of the Argentina MTC:
Latter-day Saint Life
The Latter-day Saints Who Rallied to Aid the Titanic’s Victims
London’s Latter-day Saints were as shocked as the rest of the world by news of the Titanic’s sinking on 15 April 1912, and rushed to do what they could to contribute to relief efforts for the survivors, and the families of those who had not survived. Within days of the disaster, members of the several branches in London were planning a benefit concert, to be held at “Deseret,” the Latter-day Saint hall in South Tottenham. (“Deseret,” pictured below, was a former concert hall, gaudy and so over-sized that parts of it were rented as warehouse space to local businesses, purchased a few years earlier to give the Saints a hoped-for impressive presence in the capital.)
Elder Holland admitted to hospital following several days of illness
By The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Editor's note: The Church released a statement on Friday, June 19, stating Elder Holland had been released from the hospital. Read the updated statement.