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What Helaman 5:12 teaches us about relationships and 3 other insights from this week’s ‘Come, Follow Me’ by Morgan Jones  | Aug. 18, 2020 I’ll never forget someone showing me the triangle graphic. You’ve likely seen it yourself. The idea was simple but for some reason it has never left me. If a married couple (both positioned in the bottom two corners of a triangle) are both focused on drawing closer to God (the top point of a triangle), they will ultimately draw closer to one another. I’ve found that the same is true of many other relationships in our lives. Whether it be a friendship, a mission companionship, or a parent-child relationship, if two people are trying to draw closer to God, their relationship with each other will also benefit. During my time as a missionary, it struck me that a similar concept is true of a scripture we all know in  Helaman 5:12 —and arguably the most well-known verse in this week’s  Come, Fo...

                            More beautiful thoughts for the day! August 26, 2017 Persecution SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Matthew 5:11-12 "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." QUOTE OF THE DAY Joseph Smith "When I do the best I can---when I am accomplishing the greatest good, then the most evils and wicked surmisings are got up against me. . . . He that will war the true Christian warfare against the corruptions of these last days will have wicked men and angels of devils, and all the infernal powers of darkness continually arrayed against him. . . . Shall a man be considered bad, when men speak evil of him? No. If a man stands and opposes the world ...

This is a very heart wrenching story, which was helped only by remembering the Atonement of Jesus Christ -- and it can help each one of us!  Today, April 5, 2015, is Easter, and the day we celebrate the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We also have really been inspired by General Conference yesterday and today.  This story is a bit long, but very touching and interesting. LINE UPON LINE Can the Atonement Swallow my Deepest Pain and Loss? By  Scot Facer Proctor  · April 2, 2015 I am the baby in my family. I grew up with three older brothers, but one brother, Kirk, is closest to me in age, and we were always best friends. We traveled everywhere together. We lived in South Pass City, Wyoming—a Ghost Town—for a summer together doing geology with my amazing geologist father and my pioneer mother. We traveled overseas and lived in Turkey together. We were there to pick up my oldest brother off his mission in Norway. We made messes ...