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Why Elder Bednar says you can learn to stop worrying whether or not you’re receiving revelation

"The roles of both the mind and the heart in personal revelation are crucial, and no simple formulas or recommended action steps can guide us through this rigorous spiritual process."

Preparing for Easter: Ideas for Celebrating

By Eric D. Huntsman

For both children and adults alike, Christmas is, and probably always will be, a much bigger and more attractive holiday than Easter. Further, the date of Easter makes it difficult to plan for and get excited about, while Christmas is fixed for western Christians on December 25. The date of Easter, dependent as it is upon a lunar calendar, moves around from year to year, often catching us by surprise. But in his Christmas message in 2000, President Gordon B. Hinckley made it clear that Easter really is the more important of the two holidays: “There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The baby Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.”

Latter-day Saint Life

How Could Jesus Have Sweat Drops of Blood?

By Andrew C. Skinner

From Luke's inspired description, we begin to comprehend that the Savior's anguish and suffering was unrelenting. In fact, it increased and increased— more pressure, more torture, more agony. "And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly" (Luke 22:44). Here the Savior of the universe teaches us through his experience that all prayers are not alike, nor are they expected to be. A greater need, a more intense life circumstance, calls forth from us more earnest, faith-filled petition and pleading.

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How I Discovered We Don't Need to See Angels to Have a Soul-Transforming Experience

By Taylor Halverson

The following has been republished with permission from taylorhalverson.com.

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Unbelievable stories of babies born in Latter-day Saint temples

By Chad S. Hawkins and Katie Lambert

A brand new baby is an amazing event, but it's even more amazing when he or she is born inside a Latter-day Saint temple. Check out these four unbelievable stories!

Lesson Helps

April Sharing Time: Jesus is My Savior

By Shauna Gibby

This sharing time will engage the children in an activity that teaches them about our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

Latter-day Saint Life

While Touring an LDS Temple, Disabled Man Speaks His Very First Word That Teaches Us What Matters Most

The Deseret News recently posted an article about the 20th anniversary of the Mount Timpanogos Temple, dedicated by President Hinckley on October 13, 1996. In the article, Trent Toone shares a touching story that might change how you see the temple and your Savior.

Famous Latter-day Saints

When an MMA Fighter Shared the Book of Mormon on TV After Winning "The Ultimate Fighter"

By LDS Living Staff

Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter Diego Pereira Brandão is fearless when he steps into the cage, but he is also fearless about sharing his faith.

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Watch the Puppeteers from Sesame Street® Rolling Under the Conference Center: Behind the Scenes with Big Bird, Elmo, & More

Have you ever wondered how Big Bird from Sesame Street® gets across an auditorium so fast when he's performing live on stage? It might come as a shock to you he doesn't fly: he rolls. Check out this interview with the puppeteers from Sesame Street®, those working behind the scenes to create the characters we treasure so much, where they share what it was like crawling and rolling under the stage at the conference center to make the magic of Keep Christmas with Youa reality.

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Elder Renlund Shares the Next Ordinance You Need That "Is Key to Our Faith in Jesus Christ"

By LDS Living

The sacrament is a sacred ordinance and a vital part of our worship as Latter-day Saints. Because of this, it's important to realize its gravity and importance in our lives.