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‘I truly love the work more than anything else in this world’: Elder LeGrand Richards’s special witness of Jesus Christ

Editor’s note: The following excerpt comes from a book about special witnesses of Jesus Christ. You can read this chapter in its entirety at truthwillprevail.xyz as well as other chapters as they are posted. This excerpt is republished here with permission and has been edited for clarity.

Carrie Skarda: Creating Space for Mindfulness and Meditation as Latter-day Saints

The Sacrament, temple worship, and prayer are all aspects of Latter-day Saint doctrine. But have you ever considered that they are also exercises in mindfulness? On this week’s episode, we discuss everything from what it means to set an intention focused on Jesus Christ to what the story of Joseph Smith teaches us about being still long enough for answers to unfold.

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34: "Remember the Lord" (August 24–30)

How would you react if you came home from a long trip only to find your once-clean home messy? Like everything-is-sticky-and-all-over-the-place messy. That’s kind of what happened to Nephi when he returned from preaching in a different land. But instead of coming back to a dirty home, Nephi came back to find the Nephites had turned to chaos and wickedness. In this week’s study group, we’ll dig into to Helaman 7–12 to find how Nephi reacted to the wickedness of the Nephites and how his actions proved he was a prophet of the Lord.

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Ken Alford: Dreams As Revelation

Do our dreams carry spiritual significance? And if so, how do we know? Ken Alford, a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, looks back at the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the history of the Church to explore the idea of dreams as revelation.

Adam Miller: Living in Christ Before We Die

A quote by Marcus Aurelius, a scripture in Jarom, and the writings of Paul led Adam Miller to ponder the question of what life would look like if we chose to die in Christ now and experience “an early resurrection.” This week, we look at how turning our lives over to Christ before death has the potential to change everything.

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Our favorite nugget of wisdom from the early chapters of Mosiah

By Cole Wissinger

Our challenge today is not a lack of access, but a lack of attention.

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The special moment Nephi breaks the fourth wall—and gives us one of the best Book of Mormon verses

By Cole Wissinger

Nephi writes like someone who intends for his words to be read, and 2 Nephi 25 is like he’s stretching his arm through the fourth wall to tell us what’s important.

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7 things to see in the Conference Center while Temple Square is under construction

By Jannalee Sandau

Cranes, dump trucks, and scaffolding may be the primary landscape around the Salt Lake Temple and on Temple Square right now, but you can still have a fulfilling visit downtown!

Follow the Prophets

Elder Uchtdorf shares powerful, unexpected lesson from the Savior’s final week

By Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Christ’s followers may have felt confused that their deliverer ended up on a cross, but His true mission became clear with the bigger picture.