Last month, listeners of the All In podcast heard from S. Michael Wilcox about his latest book, What Seek Ye? How the Questions of Jesus Lead Us to Him and what Wilcox has learned since the loss of his beloved wife, Laurie.

This week’s Come, Follow Me chapters (and other verses in the Book of Mormon) offer important insights into why we need a church.

I can’t recall any LDS funeral, regardless of where it was held, that did not include something that could be called a “plan of salvation” talk. A very, very few of these may have been given by members of bishoprics, but every such talk I can actually recall individually has been given by a family member, or by someone asked earlier to do that by the deceased herself, or by a general authority invited to speak because of a personal relationship with the family or the deceased. Some have been more eloquent than others. Honestly, I can’t remember a single one that has been inappropriate in any way, or was not personal to the deceased (i.e., something like “Your father was a good man. Among the good he did in this life was x, y, and z. Our knowledge of the plan of salvation suggestions that your father was met at the veil by … and may even now be engaging in … and in time to come will rise from the grave to do …”)

“I am a living witness of what it means for members of the Church to pray for [leaders].”

That our Heavenly Father communicates with us through vivid dreams is a living reality among early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana.

I learned a lesson on Sunday. Actually, I learned a few, and some of them were even during church, but this one happened afterward. I was heading back into the church for choir practice, walking fast because I didn’t want to be late and also because it was cold. The glare on the glass door reflected the outdoor image, making it hard to see into the building. I pulled the door open before realizing that at the same time a man and woman were on their way out.

It's easy to think we are alone in our trials, that no one understands us or is watching out for us.

Dr. Michael T. Benson — a BYU graduate, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the president of Eastern Kentucky University — recently made headlines for shoveling the driveway of one of his students after the two made a deal over social media.

“My brother Taylor and I put together the petition,” said Chad Murphy, Dale Murphy’s oldest son. “My dad isn’t very vocal about himself, so we thought we should say something. It turns out it’s caught on with a lot of folks because this year there are a lot of players on the ballot who used steroids or are suspected of it. And there’s a lot of debate in the sports world about whether people who essentially cheated should be elected.”

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