When I was very young, my parents planted a magnolia tree in our yard, in hopes of my having magnolias at my wedding. Plans for my future wedding also came up when I was 16 years old. Daddy arrived home from a church meeting with a rolled-up drawing of the soon-to-be Methodist church building. He unrolled the plans and pointed with pleasure to the chapel, saying, “Look, Neill, the new church will have a center aisle, instead of the side aisle of our church now, so at your wedding, I can walk you down the center of the sanctuary!” That anticipation held a particular poignancy since I was the only daughter in a family with six sons. I expected that trip down the church aisle and planned on it. Those expectations vanished like the dew of a Louisiana morning when I took an eternal step and entered the waters of baptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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All four older siblings have desires to serve the Lord.

Conference Talk:

This weekend, The Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-day Saints held its 183rd General Conference where members of the church listened to the church's leaders. The first General Conference of the church was held in 1830 in a cabin in upstate New York with only a handful of members attending. This year, millions of members of the LDS Church watched and listened to General Conference live on television and radio from around the world with an increasingly large number of members also watching Conference live-streamed over the Internet.

The Savior commanded us to search the scriptures because doing so lets us find hidden treasures that we will miss if we only read them.

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Departing from Fort Laramie, a vanguard company of Saints, including President Brigham Young, trekked across the high plains of Wyoming, passing such landmarks as Independence Rock, Devil’s Gate, and South Pass. During this phase of the journey, the pioneers encountered Jim Bridger, the legendary mountain man who offered advice and encouragement about the unfamiliar territory stretching before them. Bridger spoke optimistically, though cautiously, about the Salt Lake Valley. Wilford Woodruff recorded, “He spoke . . . highly of the great Salt Lake for a settlement,” but warned “there was but one thing that could operate against it . . . that would be frost.”

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Due to media inquiries regarding the coronavirus, the following statementhas been issued by Daniel Woodruff, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: