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  • 'Daughters in My Kingdom'

    As Sister Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president, has traveled the world, she and her counselors — Sister Silvia H. Allred and Sister Barbara Thompson — have visited with thousands of Latter-day Saint women. During those visits, the members of the Church's Relief Society general presidency like to listen to the questions women have. They write them down and pray about them.
    Published: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

  • The gospel in every tongue

    Pre-mission instruction for missionaries has roots going back to the School of the Prophets organized by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1832 (see Doctrine and Covenants 88:78-81).
    Published: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

  • 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).
    Published: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012

  • The still small voice

    The Book of Mormon records many successes and setbacks of a family that embarked upon a momentous journey from Jerusalem to the New World some 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. It recounts the triumphs won through righteousness and trials wrought by wickedness.
    Published: Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012

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'All people' to receive LDS scriptures

Published: Saturday, Feb. 8, 1992

Scriptures are the words of the Lord and are "pure" before Him. (D&C 41:12.) And He has commanded that they should be taken to "all nations, kindreds, tongues and people." (D&C 42:58.) But...