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The Day a Latter-day Saint Saw Heaven—and Decided to Stay on Earth

Miki Ogao lies on the table for yet another outpatient medical procedure. Doctors are performing a Swan-Ganz catheterization to check the health of her finicky heart. She feels nothing, but she’s wide awake. She hears the doctors and nurses discussing the procedure and marveling at their quirky patient’s upbeat mood.

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How to Help Your RM Adjust to Being Home

By Clark and Kathleen Hinckley, Sunny Morton & LDS Living Staff

Check out our earlier articles for more about how to help your missionary prepare for a mission and how to help your missionary even when they are out in the mission field.

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What Latter-day Saints Believe About the Cross + Why We Don't Have It on Our Churches

By Robert L. Millet

Often I am asked why the Latter-day Saints do not believe in the saving efficacy of the cross, yet obviously we do. We proclaim, just as the apostle Paul did, “Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2). It’s just that our belief in the power of the cross is not well known among traditional Christians. For example, a woman in Canada asked my friend Pastor Greg Johnson how he could have close association with me and other Latter-day Saints.

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When You Don’t Like Your Child’s Friends

By Briana Stewart

The following article originally ran on LDS Living in September 2014.

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Bearing Your Testimony: 5 Powerful Tips

By Kelsey Berteaux

Sitting in the back of the chapel during fast and testimony meeting feels like a safe bet—until we get the spiritual prompting to stand up and bear our testimonies. For several minutes, we struggle with whether or not we really should. We rationalize. We're teaching Gospel Doctrine this week. We just bore our testimony last year, right? We don't have anything special to say. We're scared.

‘She really made a choice’: What Tom Christofferson learned about love through watching his mother endure health problems

Members of the Church first met Tom Christofferson when he wrote his first book, That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith & Family. The book told the story of how the love of those around him, including his immediate family, brought him back to the gospel of Jesus Christ after spending two decades away from the Church. In his new book, A Better Heart, Christofferson explores Christlike love in greater depth, but in both books there is one standout character: his mother.

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Elevate your next sacrament meeting talk with a few easy tips

By Celisa Young

Here are a few ways to make your sacrament meeting talk a good experience from podium to pew.

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Why Elder Uchtdorf’s devotional was for all Latter-day Saints—not just teachers

By Haley Lundberg

Elder Uchtdorf’s special Teaching in the Savior’s Way broadcast was recommended “for all members of the Church who teach either in their calling or in their home.”

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President Oaks Shares the Sacred Responsibility We Share with the Apostles (One Where We Sometimes Fall Short)

By Dallin H. Oaks

I received a letter from a Church member who posed an unusual question: “Do I have a right to bear testimony of the Savior? Or is that the sole prerogative of the Twelve?” In response, I share some thoughts on why every member of this Church should bear witness and testimony of Jesus Christ.

Sister Linda K. Burton on Her Marriage, Motherhood, and "I Was a Stranger"

By LDS Living

Sister Linda K. Burton studied elementary education at the University of Utah, served as a seminary teacher, and raised six children before being called as the 16th Relief Society General President. After her release last year, she shared with us some beautiful insights into her life and her powerful testimony of the Savior.