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New youth website celebrates 100 years of Young Women Camp
For Clarissa Johnson, a young woman in the Liberty Stake in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, camp was an exciting new adventure. She cooked, hiked, and swam during this weeklong activity. At the end of the camp, she wrote in her journal: “[And the girls went home] in the twilight sad and happy, sad to...
Humility is a quality all too lacking
Humility seems to rank fairly low among the secular virtues, but it's at the core of what it means to be religious. "Believe in God," advises King Benjamin. "Believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in...
100 years after Titanic sinks, LDS connections still remembered
Mormon Life says: To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, LDS Living takes a look back at the connections between the event and members of the LDS community, including a mother, a defender of LDS rights, and six missionaries who miraculously survived.
On the cold evening of April 14, 1912, the Titanic, a brand-new ocean liner carrying 2,223 people, struck an iceberg, creating a large gash on the ship’s side. Hours later, on the early morning of...
Celebrating Relief Society; FAQs about Mormon Women
It’s the 170th anniversary of the organization of the Relief Society, the women’s organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We’ve had a lot of posts at Mormon Women about the Relief Society over the years. Today we wanted to feature many of them.
Mormon church celebrates relief-giving women's group
Birthdays often mean cake and celebration, and the case was no different for the 170th birthday of the Relief Society, the Mormon church's organization for women, on Saturday. But the women from the 13 congregations, called wards, in the mid-Missouri stake of the church weren't opening any...
Today in the Bloggernacle: Blogger suggests ways to celebrate Relief Society
Mormon Life says: I really like the idea of pinning your Mormon.org profile on Pinterest!
Leadership Library: I told you about the amazing Leadership Training Library, remember? Hopefully you have already taken advantage of this neat new resource, and now it’s in “11 Languages,” so this...
Celebrating 170 years of the LDS Church's Relief Society on Mormon Times TV
March is the month that we celebrate 170 years of Relief Society — the LDS Church's auxiliary for women — which is the largest women's organization in the world. Its purpose is to help members ages 18 and older increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes and seek out...
Relief Society Sisters Invited to Commemorate 170th Anniversary
To honor the 170th anniversary of the organization of the Relief Society, which takes place on March 17, 2012, members of the organization around the world are invited to participate in activities that engage them in the work of Relief Society. This anniversary is significant, said the Relief...
Landmark talk by President J. Reuben Clark set standard for church education
Mormon Life says: Click on the forwarding link to watch a video on the talk.
After working for a year as a substitute, Brad Howell was hired as a full-time LDS seminary teacher in 1987. During summer training, he was introduced to President J. Reuben Clark’s classic 1938...
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A Foundation of Faith: 100 Years of Seminary
Mormon Life says: This is an incredible video I highly recommend watching.
A jubilee year for missionary language instruction
Three years after the Church was organized, the Lord decreed that "every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue, and in his own language, through those who are ordained unto this power" (Doctrine and Covenants 90:11).Today's missionary training centers — including the first one...
MTC celebrates 50-year anniversary with devotional
Fifty years ago last year, newly called missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints going to two foreign-language missions began receiving preparatory language instruction in Provo prior to their departure. "Tonight, we join in joyous jubilee to commemorate 50 years of...
ASL seminary classes blossom at site of original seminary class
One hundred years ago, in a building adjacent to Granite High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Thomas J. Yates served as the teacher of the first seminary class in the Church, a revolutionary undertaking for the time. Today, a century later, much has changed—Granite High School has closed, for...
President Packer seminary centennial: How to survive in enemy territory
Fifty years and more than 2.5 million miles of worldwide travel later, President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve still has an ever-deepening interest in the seminary and institute programs of the Church, and more particularly in the youth of the Church. “We invest in our youth,”...
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