As hundreds of Taiwanese families moved to the area, the local stake saw an opportunity to minister.
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After losing two siblings, Gill couldn’t shake the feeling that, somewhere, their spirits lived on.
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While receiving their endowment, Samuel and Ruben smiled at each other, relieved to find what they’d always been looking for.
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There’s a hopeful detail from the story we can emphasize even more.
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Sean Sheffey felt a God-shaped hole in his life. Then missionaries approached him in a skatepark.
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The restored gospel answered Jozsef’s deepest questions. But embracing it would change nearly everything about his life.
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From a Marxist to Mongolia’s first stake president, Ochirjav Odgerel’s story is a remarkable one.
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After a lunch meeting with his colleagues, Ryan had an unexpected spiritual experience.
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When her baby was hospitalized, Sethrina of Accra, Ghana, turned to the Book of Mormon.
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“I remember standing in my living room and telling God, ‘I need help. I just can’t do this anymore.’”
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In 2024, 308,000 people joined the Church—the highest number of converts in a quarter century.
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Three of these leaders joined the Church after an invitation to play ping-pong.
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The baptisms took place in a pristine jungle river.
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At age 21, Allison was disowned by her father. Then, only two years later, she was stranded by her first husband in an unfamiliar country.
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Weekly attendance at a nearby meetinghouse has more than doubled.
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“When I received my endowment, I felt warm and tingling and kept whispering, ‘Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!’”
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“I remember when she walked in the door,” Travis says. “She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life.”
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To Rachel’s horror, she’d joined the ranks of women who suffer from a condition that’s been described as the leprosy of the twenty-first century.
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This counsel ignited Sierra’s conversion to Christ, ultimately preparing her to be among the 1st female military chaplains endorsed by the Church.
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“I never went back to striving for being number one in the world, like I wanted to. I just got a totally different perspective.”
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Like Lehi before him, Amos Makulu started to share what brought him so much happiness with others in the refugee camp, building a “family” of interested learners.
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When asked why she wanted to serve a mission, her response was, “Because it’s the right thing to do.”
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God wants us to live with joy, not guilt that we are not doing enough. Find peace by noticing the subtle signs of progress in your life.
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In June 2024, the Montoya family reunited with the families who introduced them to the gospel 50 years ago.
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As a teen, Phong risked his life to escape communism. He then was led to the only One who could heal the painful memories of his childhood.
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After his own baptism in 2005, Bishop Miliate set a goal to help 3 people join the Church each year. So far this year, he’s helped 13.
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After years of exploring other faiths, YouTuber David Boice concluded that there was something undeniably different about Latter-day Saints.
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A family once trapped by darkness was lovingly shown a way to invite light.
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My grandparents were initially nervous about my decision, but how they kept nourishing our relationship inspires me.
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Derek Ryan is frequently asked about his faith in the locker room. He knows of no other Latter-day Saints in the NHL as long as he has played.
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A series of remarkable promptings and experiences led a world-class cellist back to the faith she’d decidedly left more than 20 years earlier.
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2023 was an incredible year for the All In podcast. See the highlights here.
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Ariana and Briana Mendez share a lot of things as twins, but they never anticipated finding and sharing a belief in the restored gospel.
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Abish started out with God and eventually found the Church. I started out with the Church and have spent my life searching for God.
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Carol shares how her path to baptism started with seeing the Osmonds on TV, but nearly ended when she learned of the priesthood and temple restriction.
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Being a mother in a mixed-faith marriage has given Ashli unique insight into agency, eternity, and God’s never-ending love.
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I was hoping for an international church experience in Japan—but I got a very different outcome instead.
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No one is ever too old to step into the waters of baptism. Whether you’re 8 or 108, a covenant relationship with God is something to celebrate. Here are 19 products to help a friend or family member cherish their baptism and remember the promises they made.
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In 1967, Isaac Thomas walked onto the Missouri Valley College campus on fraternity pledge night. As one of only 32 black students at the school, he stood out starkly, but, being an outgoing young man fresh from an all-black high school, Thomas didn’t think anything of it. He had never come face to face with the violence and hatred racism breeds—until that night.
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Eduardo Maradiaga didn’t know it then, but the photo he took of the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple was about to go on a journey that would give him and his family hope as they started new lives in the US.
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In his early thirties, Jon made two important discoveries that helped him to no longer feel alone: he was Autistic, and he belonged in the gospel of Jesus Christ
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Editor’s note: The following excerpt has been adapted from Voice of the Saints in Mongolia, the first comprehensive history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that nation.
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A recent convert in Spain. A Farsi-speaking sister missionary in California. An accidental but special phone call to bring them together.
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After Batchimeg told Soyolmaa that they could serve a mission, they decided to put in their mission papers together around March or April 1995.
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Elder Carlos A. Godoy’s story comes to life with clever and nostalgic animations reminiscent of the aesthetic and pop culture of the 1970s.
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The first member of the royal family of Tonga to join the LDS Church was Princess ‘Elisiva Fusipala Vaha’i, who was baptized in the 1980s. Later, her nephew, the King of Tonga's second son, joined the Church in 2015 despite opposition from his family. A report from Kaniva News even claimed that his Majesty warned the prince he could have some of his royal privileges revoked if he joined the LDS faith. However, recently the Tongan government made this new announcement:
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"Joining this Church was something I never thought I'd see him do in this life," says Jason Hansen, the father to Kennedy Hansen, whose life story was featured in Love, Kennedy. "And that's why it's such a beautiful story."
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In the scriptures, blindness is a metaphor for disbelief and vision is figuratively or literally a description of receiving revelation. The Doctrine and Covenants teaches that the "eyes are a representation of light and knowledge" (D&C 77:44).
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When Love, Kennedy came to theaters in June, everyone was drawn to Kennedy Hansen, a girl with juvenile Batten's disease who had a faith and love that conquered trials, who believed in the power of prayer, and who still fulfilled her dream of being a cheerleader despite all she faced. Her influence and testimony have changed many lives for the better, including the Velasquez family. And while the Velasquez family's conversion story is a subplot in Love, Kennedy, there's more to the story than meets the eye.
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Author’s Note: I recognize that my life experience with Islam has been one of extremes in terms of intolerance and violence. But there are millions of good and sincere Muslims in many countries who love God and family while practicing Islam in a tolerant and positive manner. I consider them my brothers and sisters.
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“I’ve always struggled with my testimony of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” Tami wrote on her blog in August of 2016. “My testimony was always on high or off. There was no in between. I’m sure people wonder . . . if I had a very strong testimony at times in my life how in the world could I just let it waste away? I don’t have the answers to that question. I’m stubborn? Satan is a jerk? I’m forgetful? I left my room without thinking to pray? Yeah, probably all of those combined into a big mess.”
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