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Updated Websites for Young Women, Aaronic Priesthood, and Primary Organizations Add Valuable Resources

Leaders and youth beginning the new Children and Youth program will find updated websites for the Young Women, Aaronic Priesthood and Primary organizations.

Poll: How Did You Watch Priesthood Session?

By Kelsey Berteaux

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LDS Week in Review: 5 Must-Read Stories (May 17 - 23)

By LDS Living

Mormon Duo Wins 'The Amazing Race'

Washington Post: How the Mormon church teaches priesthood holders to lead

This piece is part of a joint On Faith - On Leadership series exploring the Mormon experiences that have helped shaped Mitt Romney’s leadership style, with pieces contributed by promiment Mormon writers and academics. Every Sunday in chapels across the world, the Lord’s Supper is administered by teenage boys of the congregation, nervous or bored, in sometimes ill-fitting white shirts and poorly knotted ties in youthful imitation of their dark-suited fathers. They kneel before trays of bread and water, recite formal prayers and solemnly pass the communion to the congregation. Then they return to their families in the pews.

How a 4th Grade Reading Level Book Was the Answer to President Monson's Prayer for a Missionary

By President Thomas S. Monson

The following is an excerpt from A Prophet's Voice: Messages from Thomas S. Monson.

From the Church

First Presidency Discontinues Annual Priesthood Leadership Conference on Scouting at Philmont Scout Ranch

On Friday, the First Presidency sent a letter to Area Seventies and stake and district presidents announcing the Church would discontinue its annual Priesthood Leadership Conference on Scouting at the Philmont Scout Ranch.

Latter-day Saint Life

While Irma Raged, 11,000 Mormon Volunteers Worked to Save Texas Homes

Thousands of Mormon Helping Hands volunteers are working against the clock to save the homes of those affected by Hurricane Harvey before potentially deadly black mold sets in.

Fun

3 LDS Teens with Down Syndrome Play Beautiful Piano Rendition of "How Far I'll Go"

By LDS Living

Cambria, Joby, and Kiley, three LDS teens with Down syndrome, have surely gone far with this beautiful piano rendition of "How Far I'll Go" from Disney's Moana. LDS pianist and entertainer Jason Lyle Black arranged the song and produced the video.

Feature Stories

Everything you need to know about Latter-day Saints in the Tokyo Olympics

By Haley Lundberg

Athletes from around the globe are getting ready to compete in the dream of a lifetime in Tokyo over the coming weeks, and among them are a handful of Latter-day Saints.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was born in 1938 in Sugar City, Idaho. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1960 with a BA in English. That fall she moved with her husband, Gael Ulrich, to Boston, Massachusetts so he could begin graduate work at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). During the next ten years, while engaged with her growing family, she worked with a dynamic group of Mormon women to produce a popular guidebook to Boston (a fund-raising project for their local congregation) and helped to found a Mormon feminist newspaper. Exponent II (now a magazine available in print or on-line). Taking one course a semester, she completed an MA in English at Simmons College in 1971.