Elder Holland on Depression

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland gave a talk at the Saturday afternoon session of the October 2013 General Conference that resonated with many struggling with psychiatric and psychological disorders. He sp

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Church Organization: High Council

This post is in a series about the structure and organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In each stake of the LDS Church (a stake is a collection of 8-12 congregations) the

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Church Organization: Overview

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized after the same manner as the church Christ organized during His mortal ministry. The head – or leader – of the LDS Church is

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2013 Edition of LDS Scriptures

As a full-time missionary I started a process of finding the typographical errors in the LDS edition of the scriptures that I owned (I am a bit of a copy editor at heart). Examples include: Alma 9

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The District

BYUtv, in conjunction with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has a new documentary series about 8 missionaries serving in the San Diego, CA mission. It provides a touching, if someti

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A Loving Kick in the Pants

When the Savior needs to help someone make a needed behavior change, I imagine He does it much in the same manner as Elder Holland did during the Sunday morning session of General Conference (Octob

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Lowering the Age and Raising the Bar

I wanted to share a few thoughts about the lowering of the age requirements for LDS missionaries, which was announced on Saturday morning by Pres. Thomas S. Monson. Young men can serve at 18 if t

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