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Two Sister Missionaries Sing 'Nearer My God to Thee' in Studio

These sister recorded this song with the help of a ward member to share their testimonies and help others find faith. Read more of the story behind the video at mormonsoprano.com.

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How to See Beyond the Suffering Christ to Find More in Our Savior & the Atonement

As Latter-day Saints, we celebrate the Living Christ. Here, Elder L. Whitney Clayton explains why it's so important to look beyond Christ's unimaginable suffering to see the spiritual Savior within that broken body.

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Elizabeth Smart Shares How Teaching Chastity the Wrong Way at Church Has Harmful, Lasting Effects

By LDS Living Staff

Recently, in an interview with Broadly, Elizabeth Smart shared some of the unintentional but devastating and potentially crippling side effects that can result from the way Mormon culture addresses chastity.

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5 Facts About Dedicating Your Home + How to Do It

Our family has been uprooted often, and we consider ourselves nearly nomadic. We have lived in some lovely homes both in the U.S. and abroad. We’ve also lived in a neighbor’s unfinished basement, in apartments too small for us, and in fixer-uppers tainted by buyer’s remorse. Actually, most of our living quarters have been rented. But that’s OK. ALL earthly dwellings are temporary.

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Feeling Down? Then Don't Bless Your Food

By Josh Searle

That title is correct. Feeling down? Don't bless your food. I was in Taiwan teaching English to a Buddhist family and discussing typical daily prayers in the USA. They were confused when they learned we asked God to bless our food.

James Taylor: Singing with Mormon Tabernacle Choir 'Worth the Wait'

The collaboration between James Taylor and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir — two iconic figures of American music — was many years in the making, Taylor revealed at a press conference Friday afternoon at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. “It just took us a long time to find the date, and this was worth the wait,” said Taylor, who has been practicing with the choir and the Utah Symphony since he arrived in town Wednesday afternoon. “The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a national treasure and a great gift to the world.”

Teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith Lesson 9: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon

By LDS Living

Get the full lesson "Witnesses of the Book of Mormon" from the Teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith at LDS.org.

BYU student Kate Hansen training for 2014 Olympic luge

You’ve probably passed her on campus and didn’t recognize her. You may have had a class with a world-class athlete and didn’t know it. After meeting Kate Hansen, you would never guess she flies down a track at speeds of up to 100 mph while lying on a sled, but the BYU freshman likes it that way. She prefers to go unnoticed. “It nice to not have a label here,” Hansen says. “In high school I was always ‘the luger’ and when I came to BYU I didn’t want to tell anyone about it. A lot of kids in my ward still have no idea and that’s the way I want it. I don’t want to be judged in a good way or a bad way because of it. I want people to like me for me.”

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After a Near-Death Accident 6 Days Before Their Wedding, LDS Couple Fights to Finally Build a Life Together

Just six days before their wedding, Audrey Buckley received a call that would change her entire future. Her future husband was in the hospital in a coma. “I had a lot of fears—whether or not Jared was going to remember me, what he was going to be like, if he was ever going to talk again, or if he was even going to wake up at all,” Audrey shares.

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Minutes After Praying, Stranded Family Gets Rescued by LDS Pilot

LDS helicopter pilot Luke Bowman with the Utah Department of Public Safety was out looking for a lost kayaker and ended upsaving a family of four instead, becoming an answer to the family's desperate prayers. “These guys were our angels,” the father of the family said. “Whether they recognized the hand of God moving them to us or not, it was beyond reasonable calculation for them to be where they were when they were.”