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Lucy Mack Smith Shares Harrowing Story of When a Mob Prepared to Kill Her + the Vision That Warned Her of Their Coming

The following is a part of Lucy Mack Smith's general conference address on the temple grounds in Nauvoo, Illinois, on October 8, 1845, a year after the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. This speech is the first account of a woman speaking at general conference and is part of the unprecedented Church history book At the Pulpit, which you can access for free on lds.orgor on your gospel library app. At the Pulpit spans 185 years of Church history and includes more than 50 groundbreaking discourses from LDS women.

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Latter-day Saint Life

What President Nelson and the Old Testament’s minor prophets have taught about the everlasting covenant

By Joshua M. Sears

This year our Come, Follow Me study concludes with the “minor prophets”—though sometimes obscure, they’re just as full of eternal truths.

Happening Upon Success

By Jamie Cline

There are many roads to success, a fact that Jonathan Johnson, current president of Overstock.com, knows all too well. He did not plan to be a businessman; he wanted to be a successful lawyer like his father, whom he is named after. So, following a bachelor’s in Japanese from Brigham Young University, he attended BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, graduating with his juris doctorate in 1993. “After graduation, I joined a practice in L.A. working for Japanese clients, having served my mission in Japan,” he says.

From the Church

Guest Artists Announced for President Nelson’s 95th Birthday Celebration + Where to Get Tickets

Guest artists for President Russell M. Nelson’s 95th birthday celebration, scheduled for early September, have been announced. Latter-day Saint performing artists Jenny Oaks Baker & Family Four, GENTRI, The Bonner Family, Nathan Pacheco and Donny Osmond will join The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for the evening celebration on Friday, September 6, 2019.

Not a mission leader? You can still enjoy summaries from the Seminar for New Mission Leaders

By Morgan Pearson

President Russell M. Nelson’s decision to speak about the “repeated and miraculous tutoring” Joseph Smith received from heaven as the opening talk given during the 2021 Seminar for New Mission Leaders may have seemed like an interesting choice. But President Nelson provided a clear reason for that choice.

Latter-day Saint Life

How Elder Rasband testified to a Catholic leader at the Rome temple about baptisms for the dead

By Ronald A. Rasband

In the temple, we renew our spiritual perspective. In the temple, we recommit our lives to the Lord. In the temple, we recognize “things as they really are, and . . . things as they really will be” (Jacob 4:13).

From the Church

6 temples celebrated major milestones in August

By Haley Lundberg

The month of August saw alone saw two groundbreakings, a rededication, a new open house, and the announcement of a temple expansion project.

Feature Stories

I’m a Pioneer: First Black bishop in one South Carolina stake

By Sherry Dial

This Pioneer Day, it is our hope that we can celebrate every kind of pioneer and remember the sacrifices that have been made by so many to make The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints what it is today.

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Lesson Helps

Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Lesson 30: "The Prisoners Shall Go Free"

By Ted L. Gibbons

Joseph Smith, speaking of the work of redemption for the dead called that work the “. . . most glorious of all subjects belonging to the everlasting gospel . . .” (D&C 128:17). Why? What is there about this work that would cause the prophet to place its importance above any other subject belonging to the restoration of the gospel?