Tag: trials
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Understanding the Plan of Salvation: Life Before and After Birth
“The plan of salvation teaches that mortality is but one stage of life and that life existed before one’s birth and stretches into the eternities after death. Life’s purpose is to ‘be added upon’ (Abraham 3:26), to be tested, and to participate in a growth process that has eternal consequences.” – Marilyn S. Bateman
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Emotional and Spiritual Healing and Wholeness
“Through our faith in Jesus Christ, we can seek to be spiritually whole while we wait and hope for physical and emotional healing.” – Camille N. Johnson, 18th General President of the Relief Society This quote is adapted from the talk, “Spiritually Whole in Him,” given in the April 2025 General Conference.
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The Beauty of Enduring Trials in Faith
“Every trial that we overcome or faithfully endure makes us more beautiful inside—a better person, a better child of God, a better friend, a better human being. This is the intention of God’s plan. These experiences will shape us if we let them.” -Andrea Muñoz Spannaus, Second Counselor in the 16th Young Women General Presidency
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How Scriptures Address Today’s Challenges
“As I study the scriptures very few contemporary problems seem new.” -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich This quote is taken from the essay titled “Lusterware,” that was published in Wayfare. The link to the entire essay can be found here.
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Finding Faith in Life’s Challenges
“…but sometimes mountains are not meant to be moved. Sometimes when those mountains don’t move, we need the faith to climb them and not necessarily the faith to move them. Climbing those mountains is a path that will get a closer to God.” -Sahar Qumsiyeh The full source of this quote can be found on
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The Legacy of Aurelia Spencer Rogers in Faith
“I wish to bear my testimony, that with all the members of our family have passed through, I have not doubted the truth of the Gospel which I have embraced, and I feel that I have great cause to be zealous in testifying that that I do know that God lives, and that the Church
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The Transformative Power of Jesus Christ
“We all take different paths in life because we make different choices and have different circumstances. But no matter where we are, what we have passed through, how lost we might feel that we are, the Lord Jesus Christ is waiting for us, to receive us, to welcome us. Only He has the ability to
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The Journey Through the Mountains: Pioneer Children
“Just before we crossed the mountains, relief wagons reached us, and it certainly was a relief. The infirm and aged were allowed to ride, all able-bodied continuing to walk. When the wagons started out, a number of us children decided to see how long we could keep up with the wagons, in hopes of being
Written In Pink 