Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

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How One Woman's Impromptu Speech Led to the First Sister Missionaries Being Called

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

June 08, 2019 09:00 AM MDT

The following article was originally shared on LDS Living in June 2016.

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3 Things to Remember When God's Love Feels Far Away

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

July 05, 2018 02:33 PM MDT

Maybe you feel your prayers aren’t being answered—or even heard. Perhaps you feel you have strayed beyond the Father’s ability to forgive. Maybe you’re struggling to trust that the Atonement of Jesus Christ really works in your life. Perhaps you are awash in fear, grappling to stay on top of adversity. Maybe you have been betrayed in the deepest way by one who should have treasured you. Or maybe you’re just trying to be patient, waiting for promised blessings and starting to lose faith that they will come.

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The Mormon FBI Agent Who Took Down John Dillinger and "Baby Face Nelson"

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

November 29, 2017 02:54 PM MST

Recently, loved ones gathered for a memorial service of Sam Cowley, a former FBI agent and national hero. “[Cowley was] considered by Hoover as one of his most trustworthy — if not the most trustworthy — agent he had to lead the major investigation at that time," Calvin Chipman Clegg told KSL. "He meant a lot to the director, to the FBI, and he meant a lot to our family." In order to honor this man, we wanted to share his story:

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Why It Seems Like Sometimes Our Prayers Are Unheard or Unanswered

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

October 23, 2017 09:47 AM MDT

The God to whom we pray can hear even the softest mewling of a newborn kitten, even the sound of an aspen leaf as it makes its gentle descent to Earth, carried on a quiet breeze. There is no deafness in those holy ears. Certainly He hears you, even when your prayer is whispered only in the silent chambers of your heart.

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12 Unique Gifts to Give the Savior This Year

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

December 11, 2016 10:00 PM MST

Use these ideas in conjunction with the Church's LIGHTtheWORLD Christmas campaign, or any time during the year!

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3 Examples of Evidence That Support the Book of Mormon

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

January 22, 2016 10:15 PM MST

If you’ve put any serious study into the Book of Mormon, you know it is filled with significant and often remarkable things; in fact, sometimes it’s hard to read more than a few pages without finding something new and noteworthy, even if you’ve already read it dozens of times.

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What Mark Twain Really Thought About Mormons

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

April 18, 2015 09:12 AM MDT

Mark Twain—author of popular classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—was celebrated in his New York Time obituary as the “greatest American humorist of his age.”

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The Latter-day Saint FBI Agent Who Took Down "Baby Face Nelson"

By Kathryn Jenkins Gordon

April 16, 2015 09:45 AM MDT

Photo of Sam Cowley from keepapitchinin.org What do notorious gangsters John Dillinger and Lester Gillis (aka “Baby Face Nelson”) have to do with the LDS Church? Simple: they were tracked and ultimately killed thanks to the action of a Mormon government agent—an action that secured his billing as a national hero.

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