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This was in the Deseret News, published in Salt Lake City, Utah, today on October 21, 2019.  It is something we all should think, and then pray, about! This should be for all nations on the earth, not just the United States! ‘A new movement’: Pray for the country, its leaders, church official urges Latter-day Saints By  Sarah Jane Weaver     Oct 20, 2019, 8:41pm MDT Share this storyShare this on Twitter   (opens in new window) SHARE All sharing options President M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Elder D. Todd Christofferson, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, wave to attendees after a devotional in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019.   Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News WORCESTER, Mass. — President M. Russell Ballard urged members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New England on Sunday evening to “j...

This is a touching story about the distraught teen age son of a woman who died of cancer, and how he was comforted. TOPICS POPULAR MORMON REPORT LESSON HELPS How Meeting 8 Apostles and the Prophet in One Day Answered a Young Man's Desperate Questions by M. Russell Ballard, adapted from "When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness"  | Aug. 11, 2018 Makes You Think Mormon Life Comments Some years ago there was a rather serious tragedy in our ward. A great woman, the wife of our former bishop and a woman beloved and respected in our ward family, contracted cancer of the worst kind. This was a vivacious, effervescent woman who lifted and inspired everyone she met. As the disease became worse, I gave her blessings. Other General Authorities gave her blessings. One of the blessings I gave was in the presence of her seventeen-year-old son. Another blessing was given to her when her son was e...

Our Church leaders are truly inspired for our time!  New inspiration! New Doctrinal Mastery program is replacing Scripture Mastery for seminary students By  Marianne Holman Prescott ,  LDS Church News Published: Thursday, June 2 2016 1:30 p.m. MDT Youth meet for a seminary class in the Dominican Republic. Over the course of the next year, seminary instructors around the world will be implementing a new initiative — “Doctrinal Mastery” — in their classrooms in an effort to help students understand the gospel. Photo courtesy Chad H Webb Enlarge photo» Summary Over the course of the next year, seminary instructors around the world will be implementing a new initiative — Doctrinal Mastery — in their classrooms in an effort to help youth better understand the doctrine of the gospel. LDS Church News The LDS Church News is an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The publication's content supports the d...