These Christ-centered gifts will help your ministering sisters feel loved this Christmas.
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These messages are the perfect way to brighten someone’s day this fall.
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This principle from 3 Nephi (and some help from my stopwatch) reveals an empowering truth.
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Kobin's summer was off to a boring start as he recovered from brain surgery. But music, and the help of a generous neighbor, turned it all around.
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Astonishment can open hearts to the testifying power of the Holy Ghost. Here are a few ways we can help others feel a sense of awe about the gospel.
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Alma's son Corianton pursued a harlot and had significant concerns about the gospel. What can we learn from what Alma chose to say to him?
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Here are a few guidelines, example questions, and topics you can consider as you hold Relief Society councils at the beginning of your Sunday meetings.
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President Nelson has counseled that we should “learn to listen, then listen to learn.” Here are three ways we can truly listen to our loved ones.
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Sharon Eubank, director of humanitarian services for the Church, shared on the Magnify podcast that the best thing we can do to serve others well is to learn to ask questions that don’t have predetermined answers.
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“I try really hard not to feel guilty about the replenishing that I have to do.“
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According to the Church handbook, at the very beginning of Relief Society meetings, sisters may counsel together about subjects that mean the most to them.
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Alma chapter 8 is a well of wisdom for ministering to loved ones struggling with their faith. Jared Halverson highlights 7 principles from the chapter.
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Church is a wonderful place to nurture friendships. Here are some ideas when you’re stuck on how to get started.
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One woman’s incredibly welcoming experience in a new ward—4 tips to help your visitors feel the same
After one woman forgot to pack a dress on vacation and wore hiking pants instead, she left church wanting to cheer aloud because of how she was welcomed.
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On the sometimes awkward but important quest for friends, I ask myself this question before church each week.
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Whether you call it a “walkabout,” a “snack and stroll,” a “munch and mingle,” or a “walk and talk,” here’s why it has become my very favorite summer activity.
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Some of the things that almost stopped me from ministering have turned into the greatest blessings.
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A recent episode of the “Magnify” podcast inspired me with some easy ways to show up with more love in everyday circumstances.
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There’s a subtle but profound difference between seeking to heal others and trying to fix them.
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“In one way or another, divorce touches most families in the church,” said President Oaks, and isn’t that the hard truth?
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We don’t need to be the best cook to offer to feed another, a medical professional to offer healing aid, or flush with cash to ease another’s burdens.
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How do I partner with the Lord in supporting and loving my LGBTQ child? A mother answers this and other poignant questions from a faith-filled perspective.
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Reviewing the bigger trials in my life, I realized that while our personal trials are often for our learning, they can also benefit those around us.
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We always feel good when we can serve someone. But sometimes all it takes is a few extra minutes to make that service a little more meaningful.
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I asked questions I’ve long held but didn't know who to ask about. I hope these answers will help your ministering efforts and fill you with hope.
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No matter who you minister to, we’ve come up with dozens of great gift ideas that will fit every budget and personality!
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Feeling awkward or lonely? There is a beautiful correlation between the gospel of Jesus Christ and finding connection with others.
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In a world where it’s becoming increasingly easy to avoid interaction, many of us may struggle with feelings of loneliness and isolation, or we may even feel inadequate when tasked with building a new friendship.
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It is the Lord who first enters this story. But He isn’t the one who finishes it.
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When we know how to help, even the smallest signs of support and love can make a big impact in our wards and branches.
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Looking for a simple and inexpensive way to let your ministering friends and families know you’re thinking of them? Check out some of these great gift ideas.
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How can we lighten the burden of our brothers and sisters who deal with celiac disease or food allergies?
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The feeling of receiving a carefully prepared soup or dessert dropped off by Kate felt like true devotion. It felt like true love. It felt like God.
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Take a look and see if any of these names or terms surprise you.
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Many members attend wards that aren’t in their native language or culture. But there are ways we can help know they belong.
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Here are five stories that show some of the sweetest insights into President M. Russell Ballard’s life, testimony, and ministry.
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After my grandpa's death, I received a wilted bouquet of daffodils held together by a brown rubber band, but in my eyes, it was a personal delivery from God.
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Watch: Elder Bednar and his doctor share parallels between red blood cells and the Savior’s ministry
Elder David A. Bednar shared how all things—even the tiniest cells in the human body—are a reflection of the Savior Jesus Christ and His ministry.
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As a newly called Relief Society president, I wanted to give every sister everything they needed. It was a heavy and sacred privilege. But, one that I learned, wasn’t mine.
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Published in 1899, the first Church handbook was small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. The world has changed greatly since then, and so has the handbook.
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In several spots in scripture, God promises that “as ye keep the commandments, ye shall prosper in the land.”
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Before President Russell M. Nelson’s challenge to turn social media into our own gratitude journals, there were dozens of lists online of things to be grateful for in the year 2020. Since his invitation, millions of ideas have been added by those using #GiveThanks. But there are a few spiritual things that I think we have become more grateful for this year, as we have either relied on them more or had to do without them. Everyone’s list will look a little different depending on personal circumstances, but here are a few things that I think many of us have come to appreciate more than ever this year (in no particular order).
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This story was originally published on LDS Living in November 2018.
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While traveling with Sister Becky Craven in the Pacific, Sister Sharon Eubank came across a story in the newspaper that perfectly illustrates what it means to minister to our fellow brothers and sisters: "Chris the Sheep." While traveling through New Zealand and Australia sheep country, Sister Eubank posted:
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On one of my visits to the Hawaiian island of Moloka‘i to work on the book The Way of Aloha: Moloka‘i, I was invited to ride a mule down the largest sea cliffs in the world to visit the leper colony of Kalaupapa. From 1866 to 1969, more than 8,000 people diagnosed with leprosy were quarantined to Kalaupapa. The small peninsula of Kalaupapa on Moloka‘i was chosen because of its extreme isolation. The peninsula is surrounded by rough water on three sides and large sea cliffs on its fourth.
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At 2:49 pm on January 13, 2019, I got the call no parent wants to receive. It was the bishop’s wife: “Your daughter has been in an accident.” My daughter Erynn, barely 18, was in a car with three other girls, all members of the Laurel class presidency. On their way to welcome a new girl to the ward, the car she was riding in pulled out of the neighborhood and was struck by an oncoming truck, causing injuries to all four girls. Arriving at the scene before paramedics, I was relieved to see them still seated in the car with their eyes open, despite looking very shaken. Unfortunately, my relief was short-lived. Although she appeared unharmed, Erynn would not respond to questions or commands. At the hospital, we were informed that she had a massive compressive skull fracture and bleeding on the brain. She would require immediate surgery.
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Escarly Albujar had only five months left to finish her missionary service in La Paz, Bolivia, when doctors found a football-sized tumor in the middle of her lungs. Her life took a bigger turn for the worse when she heard the news that she would have to leave her mission to return immediately to her home country of Peru for treatment.
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In the face of tragedy, President Hinckley “took the grieving family members in his warm embrace and wept with them.” Learn how his loving response led to the conversion of one woman and impacted a community by clicking the link below.
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Earlier this year, I was in a really rough spot. I was going through some parenting stuff that consumed my mind, body, and spirit. One day, after dropping my kids at school, I sat in a parking lot praying, crying, and searching for answers. It was the out loud kind of cry, the shake your whole body kind of cry, the kind of cry that comes with words hurled to heaven. I really wanted the Lord to just fix things for me, maybe wave a magic wand or something, but I have enough experience to know that isn’t the way things work. So instead, I begged him to please send me someone I could talk to who would understand.
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As the prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Nelson often ministers to tens of thousands of people at a time.
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"I got a new ministering companion and was so excited when I learned that I had been paired with a celebrity in our ward," Sharon Eubank said in a video she shared on her Facebook page.
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