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David Whitmer, Martin Harris, and Oliver Cowdery. Those are the well-known names of three men whose witnesses of the Book of Mormon stood the test of time, even if their loyalty to the Church sometimes wavered. But who were they? What about these men enabled God to use them in Restoration? Why did they all, at various points, step away from the Church? And why did two of them come back? On this week’s episode, Daniel Peterson, an executive producer of the new movie “Witnesses,” discusses the significance of these men’s roles in Church history and why we should hold gratitude in our hearts for their lives.

Fun

Could You Pass this 1857 Home Teaching Interview?

By LDS Living Staff

In the early years of the Church in the Salt Lake Valley, a "home missionary" program was started to help motivate the Saints, who were becoming increasingly apathetic in their faith. After attempts to persuade and plead with the members failed, Church leaders called "teachers" to visit homes to help stir members to repentance. Here are some questions that you might have been asked by these early "home teachers," had you lived then. Can you imagine if home teachers brought this list along to each monthly visit today?

Sponsored: Put the spring in your step at Ruby’s Inn

By Ruby's Inn, advertiser

Spring is arriving at Ruby’s Inn, located near the entrance to Bryce Canyon National Park. Like the flowers in spring, activities have begun to bloom around the property and will continue throughout the summer for visitors to enjoy and make lasting memories with friends and family.

From the Church

See first photos inside the gorgeous Urdaneta Philippines Temple

By Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The public is invited to tour the new Urdaneta Philippines Temple from Monday, March 18, 2024, to Saturday, March 30, 2024.

Latter-day Saint Life

New Church visitors’ center opens in Poland

By Church News

Mission President Gregory D. Roney dedicated the visitors’ center as a “place of gathering to invite all to come to know [God’s] beloved Son better.”

Jared Halverson: Giving People the Benefit of their Doubts

While pursuing a doctoral degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School where his studies have been focused on anti-religious rhetoric, Jared Halverson has simultaneously sought to help students who wrestle with questions and doubts about the restored gospel. And while many say that divinity school tends to weaken faith, he says he has only become more convinced of the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Wildfire Prevention and Preparation

By Emergency Essentials

The destructive wildfires that rage through our forests, brush, and grasslands each year have two primary causes: lightning and people. Unfortunately, careless people cause more fires than lightning, and wildfires destroy vegetation, homes, businesses, and the lives of people and animals each year in alarming numbers. In an average year, 13 million acres as well as countless homes and businesses are lost to wildfires in the U.S. and Canada.

Sponsored: How to improve your memory and find relief for memory problems

By Grant Grayson

The active ingredient, Cognivia, in the memory and healthy aging supplement MemNivia, licensed to the Orem, Utah company, DeVore Nutritionals, was recently selected by Nutra Ingredients as one of the top healthy aging products of 2020 – tops in the USA, Europe and Asia. Nutra Ingredients is an international supplement trade organization that monitors the efficacy and claims of thousands of products coming out of the supplement industry and awards only the best of the best.

SOM Transcript - S5E41

Lesson Helps

Book of Mormon Lesson 45: "Never Has Man Believed in Me as Thou Hast"

By Ted L. Gibbons

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: The book of Ether is a 15-chapter abridgment of the 24 plates found by the people of Limhi in the days of King Mosiah. It gives an outline history of a people who were led to this continent from the Tower of Babel and became a great nation. These people, called Jaredites, had a national history of possibly sixteen centuries or more. The Tower of Babel record is the factual basis of the book of Ether. The Lord did not confound the Jaredite language, but guided his people and made of them a great nation. Ether, the last great prophet and historian of this people, gives his own genealogy, covering twenty-nine generations or more back to Jared, who lived at the time of the Tower of Babel episode (FARMS, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Vol.4, Number 2, p.123).