Posted on September 7, 2008 by mormonmagmeister
This month’s Ensign contains a short article that gives six tips for helping investigators when they come to church. In “Coming to Church, Becoming Converted,” Dale M. Valentine (a former mission president who has passed away since writing this article) describes an experience in which he had the opportunity to ask seven converts about the [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2008 by mormonmagmeister
Do you have a desire to share the gospel but find yourself at a loss for how to approach people? This month the Friend magazine includes a story by a young girl whose friend asked her a simple question during recess. In “Do You Want to Go to Primary with Me?” you can read about how [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2008 by mormonmagmeister
In the July New Era is an article called “Now Is the Time” about young Latter-day Saints in Ukraine, a country where the Church itself is still quite young. The stories of how they gained a testimony of the restored gospel and how they are learning to serve and lead in the Church are inspiring.
It’s [...]
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Posted on June 29, 2008 by mormonmagmeister
This month the Ensign has reprinted Elder M. Russell Ballard’s now-famous address at BYU–Hawaii last December, titled “Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet.” After Elder Ballard gave this address, there was a great deal of discussion about it in the bloggernacle, as well as a fair amount of self-congratulatory back-patting. So, for those who missed [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by mormonmagmeister
In this month’s New Era, President Henry B. Eyring begins his message by saying, “When I was a young man I wondered why the Lord needed to have the Prophet Joseph Smith translate the Book of Mormon to begin the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.” The rest of this article, titled “Why the [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2008 by mormonmagmeister
In this month’s special issue of the Ensign on the Savior, President Henry B. Eyring discusses a pattern he has observed among those who accept the invitation to come unto Christ. In “Come unto Christ” (also available on the new Web site JesusChrist.lds.org) President Eyring mentions three truths the Holy Ghost has manifested to people he knew who [...]
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