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Now is the perfect time to learn more about Family History!  Read this article, and then you also can go to the web site for several Family History Centers -- St. George Family History Center, Layton Family Search Center, Rexburg Family History Center -- to name 3 who are offering many online classes on all kinds of subjects!  Try them out -- and see what you can learn right in your own home! 3 Ways the Family History Library Is Bringing Resources to Your Home By  Church News  · July 13, 2020 The following is excerpted from the Church News. To read the full article,  CLICK HERE . FamilySearch is now offering sign-ups for free one-on-one online consultations with research specialists from the  Family History Library  in Salt Lake City. The consultations join existing live webinars and the online Help Center as another way the Family History Library is making its expertise and resources available, despite being close...

    This is an especially nice post, in LDS Living, with a few short videos.  When you have time to listen, they really are worth the time! How to find new meaning in Alma’s teachings on faith as a seed in this week’s ‘Come, Follow Me’ by Danielle Christensen  | Jul. 14, 2020 Lesson Helps In this week’s  Come, Follow Me , readers will likely be familiar with  Alma 32:26 : Now, as I said concerning faith—that it was not a perfect knowledge—even so it is with my words. Ye cannot know of their surety at first, unto perfection, any more than faith is a perfect knowledge. According to that definition, to have faith is to be comfortable with ambiguity—in other words, it is not to have a “perfect knowledge” of things. But that doesn’t mean that one has to give up on the hope of knowing gospel truths. Alma simply says one “cannot know of their surety  at first ”—not that one couldn’t know of their surety at some point i...

This is very interesting, and encouraging! Pfizer Head of Anti-Viral Has Good News on COVID-19 By  Maurine Proctor  · July 9, 2020 Richard Hutchins is not speaking officially for Pfizer nor any other organization in this article, but merely sharing the latest information about vaccine development. The more we are stuck under masks in public gatherings and stay in when we want to go out, questions multiply about COVID-19. News reports give us mixed messages, cases spike when states open up, and people talk about the “new normal” as if we will spend a lifetime looking at each other mainly as carriers. The question that haunts us most is “When will this ever end?” Or will this virus just mutate into new and more contagious forms, so we are isolated indefinitely? We took some of our questions to someone we knew could give us authoritative answers and what he told us was the most optimistic news we’ve heard yet in this fight to defeat COVID-19. Look...

I got this from "Book of Mormon Central."  I would encourage all of you to go there, and subscribe to their free daily articles.  That is where you'll find "Tyler and Tayler," who give the most inspiring videos each week on the Come Follow Me subject for the week.  All of it is free, and so so so inspiring! Post contributed by  Richard Draper July 9, 2020 Save     Four Horsement of the Apocalypse by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov. Image via Wikimedia Commons. This is a guest post by Richard Draper, which may  also be read at the BYU New Testament Commentary website . Approximate reading time: 12 minutes. Basically, I am (and have always been) an insecure person seeking for security. At an important point in my life and career, I was introduced to the wonder of scriptural prophecy. It was in an eleventh grade Seminary class where the teacher introduced us to the Revelation of St. John the Divine. He piqu...