Visiting teachers and home teachers are encouraged to review and prayerfully consider last month's general conference addresses to select a messages they can share with the brothers and sisters they visit. With encouraging talks on a variety of topics, every member is sure to gain a deeper understanding and motivation from the Lord's chosen apostles and prophets.

Manual 3; Supplement from "Act in All Diligence," by Henry B. Eyring

Over the decades, the details of various calls Steve responded to as a paramedic have faded or even disappeared from his memory.

In her life story, Jane Manning James said she tried to set a good example “in my feeble way.” There was nothing feeble about her, though. She was a paradigm of faith and faithfulness in the face of sometimes unthinkable opposition.

Alissa and Robbie Parker remember the first time they realized their daughter Emilie had become an unseen angel to others. A letter arrived from New Mexico from the mother of Emilie’s good friend, Arianna. Arianna had been devastated by Emilie’s death, becoming quiet and withdrawn. Then one day, Arianna’s parents heard her speaking animatedly to someone while she played alone in the backyard. She seemed happy, excited. When her parents asked Arianna who she was speaking with, she replied, “It’s Emilie. She is here with me. Can you feel her?” The Parkers have learned the power of those words for themselves as they have grown closer to Emilie and their Heavenly Father, feeling their love and influence from beyond the veil.

Get the full lesson "Missionary Work: 'To Reach Every Human Heart'” from the Teachings of Lorenzo Snow at LDS.org.

Whether its elementary, high school or college graduation, the season of recognizing academic achievement is upon us. These cards can be made in quantity quickly; and, because they are handmade, they mean so much more.

INTRODUCTION: One of the great realities of the Restoration is the fact there is now communication between this planet and the eternal worlds. Beginning with the vision in the grove and continuing on through the years to this very day, we see evidence of continuous communication between God and his children. We have seen it in the unfolding of the revelations in the D&C and in the unfolding of the latter-day organization of the Kingdom of God on earth. President James E. Faust said:

The year 1940 might have been a banner year for our family. The health and financial hardships that followed my father’s 1930 graduation from medical school in Philadelphia were past. The family was happily located in Twin Falls, Idaho, where my father’s medical practice (eye, ear, nose, and throat) was thriving and where he served on the high council of the Twin Falls Stake. In January 1938, he and my mother had returned from his four months of valuable postdoctoral training in ophthalmology in Vienna, Austria, and Cairo, Egypt. After years of sacrifice since their marriage in 1929, my mother could at last contemplate a life of security as the wife of a prosperous physician. In January 1940, son Merrill would be four, and in March, daughter Evelyn would be one. In August 1940, I, their eldest, would be baptized following my eighth birthday.