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SPONSORED: Historic Bed and Breakfast on Canada's Mormon Trail boasts fascinating past

Cobblestone Manor in Cardston, one of Canada's designated historic sites, is one of the best places to kick up your feet on Canada's Mormon Trail. But it's more than a beautiful place to eat – it is a piece of living history as the previous residence of one of Cardston's founding pioneers and later one of Alberta's most mysterious eccentrics.

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.

Dear Mothers: You're More Than "Just" a Mom

By Katie Lambert

"I am more than 'just a mom,'" my mother told me once.

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What ‘prophetess’ means in scripture and why it matters for women today

By Camille Fronk Olson

Between the time the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness and the Savior's birth, the Bible refers to several women as prophetesses, a term that can be troubling to those who restrict the meaning of prophet to a man whom God authorizes to declare doctrine, relay His will to His people, and lead them back to Him.

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4 Ways to Make the Best of Being Single in a Family Church

By Elaine Jack

Singles occupy a unique place in the Church. At least one-third of the adult Church membership is single. As President James E. Faust has pointed out, we were all single before we were married, and many, due to divorce or death of a spouse, will once again be single. The promise of an eternal family is nonetheless available to all who are worthy.

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269 Words: The Shortest Talk in the History of General Conference?

By LDS Living Staff

Last spring I came across an article on My Best LDSabout what could be the shortest general conference talk ever given. Now, a fact like that is hard to prove considering we do not have transcripts for every conference talk given in our Church's history, but it seems likely that this could be the shortest talk ever given in general conference, especially considering that speakers in the 1800s were not known for their brevity.

Lesson Helps

Young Women Lesson 34: Avoiding Dishonesty

Manual 3; Supplement from "Moral Discipline," by D. Todd Christofferson

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4 strategies for having meaningful experiences in the Old Testament

By Joshua M. Sears

The blessings of studying the Old Testament are there, but sometimes they only come through a wrestle.

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Why do pandemics come and what is God’s role in them? Church historians discuss the topic

By Matthew J. Grow and Matthew C. Godfrey

Pandemics perplex. Long after the anxiety has receded, the suffering has subsided, and the dead have been buried, troubling questions remain. Epidemic disease often seems to strike indiscriminately, taking the young and the old, the healthy and the vulnerable, men and women, the righteous and the wicked.

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Why Joseph Smith's Dictation of the Book of Mormon Is Simply Jaw-Dropping

By Brian C. Hales

One of the miracles of the restoration of the gospel includes the mechanical process that generated 269,528 words of the text of the Book of Mormon. Using the seer stone in ways he never explained, Joseph Smith spoke the words to his scribes, who recorded them with quill pens.