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September 2012 Visiting Teaching Message: Special Needs and Service Rendered

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In Book of Mormon musical, a Mormon finds something to love

Last Thursday night I zipped up my going-out boots and drove through fat snowflakes to the Fox theater. The touring production of the 2011 Tony-award-winning musical The Book of Mormon was in town. I love musical theater and I’ve attended many performances at the Fox, but that evening was different. I was about to see a show that famously satirizes Mormonism, and I was probably the only Mormon in the sold-out house.

Prayer and God helped hero avert a school shooting

Details are emerging that reveal how Antoinette Tuff relied on prayer and God while persuading a man armed with an AK-47 into surrendering to police before he could harm any students or staff Tuesday at an elementary school in Georgia. “The school bookkeeper is passing on the credit to God, revealing in a recent interview how she had been praying not only for herself but also for the gunman who had taken her hostage during the frightening ordeal,” Nicola Menzie reported for the Christian Post.

Lesson Helps

2015 January LDS Primary Sharing Time Helps And Ideas

Monthly Theme: We Believe in God the Eternal Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Latter-day Saint Life

How God Led Missionaries to a Woman Who Had Already Found the Church but Didn't Know It

By Gerald N. Lund, as excerpted from "Divine Signatures"

In his book, Divine Signatures, Gerald N. Lund defines a divine signature as "the Lord send[ing] His blessings in . . . a highly unusual, dramatic, or precisely timed manner, that it . . . is as though the Lord 'signs' the blessing personally so that we will know with certainty that it comes from Him." The following story, excerpted from the book, is a remarkable example of one such divine signature.

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FHE: "She Stood for Freedom"

By LDS Living

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a special time to remember the sacrifices made to help bring racial equality to America. Help your family understand the importance of these events with a lesson from the children's book She Stood for Freedom.

'Mormonism, Islam and the Question of Other Religions'

As a product, on one level, of the early 19th century United States, the Prophet Joseph Smith "shared the idealism and passion for freedom and human rights that were the motivating principles" of the American Revolution, said Daniel C. Peterson Aug. 5 in the closing presentation of the FAIR Conference. FAIR, the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Apologetics, is a volunteer organization that seeks to counter criticisms against Mormonism, though it is not affiliated with and does not speak for the Church.

The LDS Church in Madagascar

By Jenny Spencer Hunt

Children with dusty feet playing in the trash. Street vendors begging tourists to buy their vanilla. Women scrubbing laundry in the muddy river. Soldiers with AK-47s patrolling the streets.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Lesson 19: "The Plan of Salvation"

By Ted L. Gibbons

Hugh Nibley gave an interesting insight into the plan of salvation as he reported and commented on a gospel conversation between the Apostle Peter and Clement, one of the early Christians:

Latter-day Saint Life

Why BYU professor Anthony Sweat paints little-seen moments from Church history and what he wishes people better understood about them

Anthony Sweat isn’t just a BYU religion professor and an author; he is also a talented artist. We recently sat down to ask him about his latest book, his faith, his family, and his love of painting unique Church history events.