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Watch: 3 Words That Will Change How You See "Doubting" Thomas, Our Savior, and Easter

For Holy Week, LDS Living is preparing for Easter in two simple ways: 1) by focusing on the events leading up to Easter on our Instagram account @brightly.beams and 2) by releasing a video a day focusing on the perspective of those who witnessed the life and resurrection of our Savior. Here is the sixth video (watch the first five here), featuring Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler of Don't Miss This as they explain what we can learn about Easter and our Savior from Thomas. While many focus on Thomas's doubt following the Savior's resurrection, what is even more beautiful is our Savior's reaction to Thomas's questions.

16: "If Ye Are Not One Ye Are Not Mine" (Doctrine and Covenants 37–40)

“Pack up everything—we’re moving.” When you read those words, how do you feel? Are you excited? Or does your heart drop as you think of all the packing, cleaning, and organizing that moving entails? Maybe you feel a bit of both? Well in this week’s lesson, the early Saints are asked to do just that: pack everything up and move. While this move was challenging and full of hardship, it also came with many blessings. And as we dig into Doctrine and Covenants 37–40, we’ll learn how the Lord asks us to move spiritually and what blessings we receive as we obey.

The Power of Stillness by Hess, Skarda, Anderson, and Mansfield

In a church that teaches us to “always abound in good works,” it might feel a little unusual to also have a commandment to “be still.”  We're a people who love to do! And yet, woven deeply into our faith is a divine invitation to stillness.

Latter-day Saint Life

The Woman Who Held the Paris Branch Together During World War II

By Geneva Bates Pincock

Eveline Marie Charlet Kleinert was born at Pully, Vaud, Switzerland, on February 9, 1878, the daughter of Marc Louis Charlet and Delphine Catherine Vionnet. She was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 1, 1896, at the age of 18, about a year and a half after her parents’ baptism.

Latter-day Saint Life

Latter-day Saint Whose Cancer Returned 13 Days Before His Mission Serves Unique Mission

By Emily Linder

January 23, 2019—the day Kyle Dory of Laramie, Wyoming, eagerly looked forward to entering the missionary training center.

Latter-day Saint Life

Should I let my teenagers struggle with their testimony?

By Don N. Markland

Joseph Smith was a teenager when he was seeking to find the truth. As teenagers often struggle with their faith today, we can let them find the answers as he did.

The Church in Brazil

By Briana Stewart

The history of the Church in Brazil actually began in Germany, danke very much. The first known member in the country was Max Richard Zapf, who was baptized in Germany in 1908 and immigrated to Brazil in 1913. After years passed with no Church contact, Zapf learned there was another German LDS family, the Lippelts, living in Brazil. These two families—who became fast friends—represented the beginning of the Church’s permanent presence in the South American country.

Latter-day Saint Life

5 ideas to help you share—and not overshare—personal experiences at church

By Danielle Christensen

What should we share in church meetings? These five ideas can help guide you on how to talk about your personal experiences in meaningful ways.

30: "I Am Doing a Great Work" (Ezra 1; 3–7; Nehemiah 2; 4–6; 8)

Do you watch DIY shows for hours on end or daydream about home improvement projects? If so, this episode is for you. But if you don’t, this episode is still for you because today we are talking about one of the most monumental moments in all of scripture: the rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem. This event was crucial to the Jews who had gone without a temple since their Babylonian captivity. And after the past two years of a worldwide pandemic, we can relate to their hardships and the joys of having a temple once again, even if we have no idea how to read a blueprint.

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How her Old Testament study helped a young mom of 7 in her battle with cancer

When Anne Bednar’s world was rocked by a cancer diagnosis, stories from the Old Testament came alive, teaching her that, truly, “God meant it unto good.”