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4 Ways to Make the Best of Being Single in a Family Church

Singles occupy a unique place in the Church. At least one-third of the adult Church membership is single. As President James E. Faust has pointed out, we were all single before we were married, and many, due to divorce or death of a spouse, will once again be single. The promise of an eternal family is nonetheless available to all who are worthy.

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Why Spiritual Checklists Are Burning You Out

By Ester Rasband

Some of us devote our lives to doing everything the instruction book outlines and then consider good feelings our right. And then we are angry when peace does not accompany our accomplishment. We may become exhausted from the effort, and still we do not have a feeling of well-being. We feel we have done our part and have been cheated.

Women's Charge to Expound and Exhort

By Jennifer Reeder

“To give instruction, where instruction’s voice

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Mental Disabilities at Church: How Ward Members and Parents Can Help

By Kim and Kurt Zalewski

One Sunday, when our 14-year-old son, Brian, attempted to sit through sacrament meeting, he lost control and began making squawking noises. He turned to us in anguish and said, “Do you think people know how hard it is for me to be here? Do they know how hard I try?”

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4 Natural Man Tendencies That Hurt Marriages (+ How to Overcome Them)

By Mark D. Ogletree

Our Heavenly Father and his son, Jesus Christ, are both childlike, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, and willing to submit to all things (Mosiah 3:19). However, the natural man is the opposite of these qualities.

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Old Testament Lesson 46: "A Kingdom Which Shall Never Be Destroyed"

By Ted L. Gibbons

When I was young and silly, my parents used to take me to southern Utah to visit relatives almost every summer. We would spend a week or two in Kanab and I would devote hours each day to roaming the red hills and canyons in the area with my cousins. One of the activities in which we sometimes engaged was rock rolling. We would climb the K-hill, a small table-top mountain northeast of town and roll rocks down the side. It was awesome to see the largest boulders we could move crashing down the hillside, gathering momentum and speed, dislodging other great rocks and debris which joined the mad cascade to the bottom. There were times when it seemed as if the whole mountain was moving.

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What the Media Gets Wrong about Beauty

By Lexie Kite and Lindsay Kite

In a world where a constant—and we mean constant—flow of media images far exceeds the number of women we could ever see face to face, this abnormally thin and digitally-enhanced feminine ideal has become the norm in our minds. A counterfeit, dangerous, unattainable norm.

Especially for Latter-day Saint Missionaries: How to Transition to Post-Mission Life

By Sunny Morton

Every month, about 2,800 LDS missionaries come home. The returning missionary or couple appears at the airport, at the front door, or in the chapel. Loved ones and old friends offer joyful congratulations and comment on changes they see: a brighter glow of faith, a more confident demeanor, a deeper tan, or a newly acquired accent.

Tips for Asking (and Hearing) Hard Questions About the Church

By Preston Lee

Have you ever noticed that asking difficult questions about the Church and the gospel can seem a bit taboo at times?

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Latter-day Saint Whose Cancer Returned 13 Days Before His Mission Serves Unique Mission

By Emily Linder

January 23, 2019—the day Kyle Dory of Laramie, Wyoming, eagerly looked forward to entering the missionary training center.