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How Apartheid Still Affects South African Saints +Other Cultural Barriers They're Overcoming

Paying a “bride price” or lobola is an expected tradition for many couples hoping to marry in Africa. It is the custom for the groom’s family to pay the bride’s family a certain amount of money for her hand in marriage. In African history, the lobola was paid in cows, but cash is more common now. And the expected price has most definitely gone up in modern times. This causes many young African couples to continue their relationships and have families without first getting married.

Latter-day Saint Life

Watch "Meet the Mormons" in Icelandic, Estonian + 27 Other Languages on YouTube

MR says: The Mormon Channel recently posted the full Meet the Mormons movie to YouTube in 29 languages, so now Church members from all over the world can watch it for free for a limited time.

Latter-day Saint Life

A former federal court judge recalls a transformative experiment with the Atonement of Jesus Christ

Twenty years ago, Stake President Thomas B. Griffith got permission to try something a bit unique. Every talk given in sacrament meeting or lesson shared must tie back to the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Lesson Helps

May 2012 Visiting Teaching and Home Teaching: General Conference

Because the May Ensign and Liahona contain a report of the April 2012 General Conference messages, there is no prepared message for visiting or home teachers. The Church encourages visiting and home teachers to prayerfully select addresses that apply to their sisters/families.

Podcasts

How to prepare physically and spiritually to receive peace

By Sarah Collins

Whether for emergencies, tests, college, or missions, we’re often given the same short piece of advice: prepare. But have you ever thought about preparing for peace?

Joseph Smith's Last Dream

Latter-day Saint Life

7 Ways to Help Your Kids Become Strong and Independent in the Gospel

By Kristena Eden

Good parents give their children roots and wings: roots to know where home is and who they are and wings to fly off and practice what has been taught them. This is the contradiction of parenting—juggling the act between setting limits while simultaneously encouraging independence or ultimately teaching them the gospel and allowing them the freedom to live it.

Famous Latter-day Saints

Historic Professional Golfer Shares How Living His Faith Helps His Game

A Latter-day Saint and the first Tongan and Samoan to compete on the PGA Tour, Tony Finau says his faith and prayer is essential to his success in golf. "It’s really an honor for me to represent my people at the level that I am. I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony,” Tony said. “We’re very respectful people, and very humble people . . . and I try and let that shine through as much as possible."

Lesson Helps

Old Testament Lesson 40: "Enlarge the Place of Thy Tent"

By Ted L. Gibbons

When I served in the U.S. Army, I had the opportunity on a number of occasions to assist in erecting tents. Aside from the personal tents used by soldiers for their own shelter, administrative tents came in three sizes: GP (General Purpose) Small, GP Medium, and GP Large. I do not remember the dimensions of these tents, but I have the impression that there was room under a GP Large for St. Peter’s Basilica.

Lesson Helps

FHE: Humility

By Shauna Gibby

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