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Heath Simmons Heath Simmons

Where Faith, Family, and Freedom Meet

The challenges facing our communities are real and complex. Yet across centuries and cultures, the world’s great scriptures and the founding vision of America point toward the same enduring values: human dignity, compassion, service, humility, and personal responsibility.

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Father’s Day Advice from Alma

In recognition of Father’s Day, here are the four pieces of advice a prophet named Alma the Younger gave to his three very different sons before he died.

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Mothers Who Persevere

When we think we have real problems, can we imagine for one minute picking out the residue from our husband’s badly burned body after being tarred and feathered—time and again?

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Mothers of Wayward Children

The same parents who teach their children to walk in righteousness can have children who heed that counsel, and children who rebel.

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Mothers Unshaken in War

They fought with faith because they believed when their mothers taught them, “Trust in the Lord.”

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Mother Facing Cultural Upheaval

When she could no longer hide him, “…she took for an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.”

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Mother Steadfast in Grief

Suffering the loss of children, born and unborn, has unmoored many of us at times. Let us turn to Mary for healing, recalling her indelible example of endurance, without losing her foundation.

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Mother-in-Law As Mentor

Though the book is named after Ruth, it is the strategic wisdom of her mother-in-law, Naomi, who is pivotal to the plot, leaving a lasting legacy.

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Family History Discovery Day

This free event captured the interest of experts, and newcomers alike, who attended workshops of all levels taught by five genealogists.

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Mariann Telford Mariann Telford

Teaching Spiritual Giants in Primary

On this one particular day, we were all in the primary room and I heard a little voice saying, “Sister Telford, do you want to get baptized with me?”

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