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What Jesus Can Teach Us About the Why of Suffering and Our Response to It

As part of an essay we wrote several years ago exploring what the four Gospels have to say about Jesus and suffering, we could easily have begun with any number of historical or scriptural references—from Liberty Jail and the Prophet Joseph in the winter of 1838-39 to Job, whose friends blamed his afflictions on his supposed sins, to the multiple souls described in the Gospels who were plagued by disease, misfortune, natural disasters, or simply the consequences of bad or even impetuous decisions.

Latter-day Saint Life

The Years My Mother Vanished: What the Savior Taught Me About Compassion Because of Her Life

By Judith McConkie

At first, I didn’t really understand that she was slowly slipping away. My father had died suddenly just as he was turning 65. He had been the stabilizing influence in our family, and without him, I remember feeling as though I was trying to balance my life on a two-legged stool. In addition, after he died I became aware of how much he had encouraged and supported our mother. He was the one who calmed her when she was anxious or fearful.

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See a powerful quote from each October 2022 general conference talk

To help you remember the spirit you felt, here is one quote from each October 2022 general conference talk.

"All In" Podcast: Thomas McConkie Shares Experience with His Grandfather, Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, as Advice for Those Who Love Someone Struggling with Their Faith

Thomas McConkie stopped attending church at age 13 and did not return until he was 32 years old. However, on this week’s episode of All In, McConkie shared with host Morgan Jones an experience he had in his early 20s when his grandfather, Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, who at the time was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, asked him to come visit him at his office and how he believes his grandfather’s perspective reflected God’s love for him and impacted his life.

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"Is There No Blessing for Me?" The Incredible Conversion and Life of Jane Elizabeth Manning James

By Katie Lambert

Shuffling through dirt and mud, stumbling over cold stones that rubbed their skin raw, Jane Elizabeth Manning James and her family inched toward Nauvoo, Illinois, barefoot. It was 1843; James was one of the first black converts to the Church and lived in a time where some people saw her as property first and a human being second.

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