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This is a touching story.  I hope we can each do something, probably small, to lighten someone else's day today! How A Simple Styrofoam Cooler Changed a Family and a Village By  Becky Douglas  · June 9, 2020 To see how you can help with the efforts of Rising Star Outreach,  CLICK HERE . On a recent phone call with our Chairman in India, Padma Venkataraman, she mentioned that she had a surprise photo for me. She told me I probably wouldn’t believe she had taken it this week. She sent the following photo, and she was right—I could hardly believe it. Sixteen years ago, a terrible tsunami hit the Indian Ocean killing nearly 250,000 people across several countries. Rising Star Outreach jumped in immediately with tsunami relief. We replaced destroyed fishing boats and fishing nets for kuppams, (fishing villages,) which were the hardest hit segment of the society in India. With new boats and the replaced nets, the kuppams were able to r...

This article, like others by Richard and Linda Eyre and their daughter, is quite long, and you may want to take a couple of days to really understand their wisdom and suggestions.  It is really an inspiration to read this! Overcoming the Obstacles to Family Revelation By  Richard and Linda Eyre  and  Saydi Eyre Shumway  · June 8, 2020 Editor’s Note:  New York Times #1 Bestselling Authors Richard and Linda Eyre join forces with their daughter Saydi (an “in the trenches” mother of four young children) to produce this series on the why-tos and the how-tos of receiving the Direct-Stewardship inspiration, guidance, and revelation we need to create strong and righteous families in this difficult world.  This is article 7 in a multi-part weekly series which will run here in Meridian every Tuesday. ( Click  here  to read article 1 ,  here  to read article 2 ,  here  to read article 3 ,  here ...

The revelation on all worthy members having the Priesthood, was announced on June 9th, and that is the day that my oldest son and his wife were married in the Salt Lake Temple.  When we were driving to the wedding luncheon after the Temple ceremony, that was the talk of the day!  It was truly a memorable day, for more reasons than one! Found in the footnotes: 'Words would diminish the power' of the revelation on the priesthood by Lindsey Williams  | Jun. 05, 2020 Editor's note: Our bi-weekly Friday column, “ Found in the footnotes ,” explores some of the footnotes from remarks given by General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I frequently reflect on a quote by Elder David A. Bednar from a  February broadcast , “The longer I serve, the less satisfied I am with words.” Isn’t it interesting that the language of the Spirit—the universal language understood by every child of God—someti...