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"What if their story were my story?" This probing question asked by Sister Linda K. Burton in the women's session of general conference has been one of the clarion calls to Latter-day Saints as they've begun focusing on a new task: supporting refugees. With the new Relief Society initiative, "I Was a Stranger," Saints all over the world are stepping in to see how they can help relieve the refugee crisis.

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When people tell the story of Cinderella, they usually tell it from her point of view. This time, it’s the prince who’s telling this story, and it involves hundreds of young ladies clamoring to be his one true love. Wouldn’t it be nice if the prince had help to sift through all those potential princesses? Well, now he does.

In the October 2015 general conference, Elder Ronald A. Rasband was sustained as the 98th apostle, along with two other apostles, Gary E. Stevenson and Dale G. Renlund, an event that hasn't occurred in the Church since 1906 when Elders George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, and David O. McKay were called as apostles of the Lord.

For many people around the globe, bended knee is the posture of prayer, the place we go for ultimate hope when we have nowhere else to turn.

Several years ago as I was about to depart for work, a call came from my bishop. His oldest son had disappeared. The boy had eaten breakfast and dressed for elementary school, but when his mother was ready to drive him and his sisters to school he could not be found. They thought perhaps he had walked. His mother transported her daughters and then made a search. The boy was not at school. It was at this point that calls went out to the police and to several ward members. I delayed my departure for work and along with several dozen others, commenced an intensive search of the neighborhood. After a few hours, his mother found him, curled up on the floor of his closet with the door closed. He was fast asleep.

There are many reasons why Jesus came to earth, and our word Atonement has come to embody them all, but I think, if I had to be specific, I would say that the essence of His life centered on forgiveness. In the great hymn of the Restoration, Joseph Smith caught that spirit when he wrote, “Now, what do we hear in the gospel which we have received? A voice of gladness! A voice of mercy from heaven” (D&C 128:19). The Savior is the incarnation, the personification, the grand architect of forgiveness and mercy. It is inherent in almost every act of His life. It is the one single most significant quality of the Father that Jesus came to teach us with His words and show us by His example. Indeed, the most beautiful words He spoke during those last agonizing hours of His life are, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). Whenever I feel the difficulty of forgiving in my own life, I read those words and the feeling of forgiveness moves into my soul.

Editor’s Note: Tammy Uzelac Hall is the host of LDS Living’s Sunday on Monday, a new weekly podcast focused on Come, Follow Me that dives into the hidden treasures of the gospel. Here are questions readers might have in their studies of the Book of Mormon this week, accompanied by Hall's insights that add new meaning to the beloved verses.

There are so many things I love about our Church culture—our outgoingness, our willingness to serve, our focus on the Savior and others, and the fact that no matter where I go, I instantly have a community I'm a part of.