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In case you missed it: President Nelson to rededicate Washington D.C. Temple, new Relief Society and Primary leaders on social media, plus 7 stories
All through the week of July 31 to Aug. 6, the Church introduced that President Russell M. Nelson will rededicate the Washington D.C. Temple on Aug. 14. The brand new Aid Society basic presidency with President Camille N. Johnson, Sister J. Anette Dennis and Sister Kristin M. Yee, in addition to the brand new Major Presidency with President Susan H. Porter, Sister Amy A. Wright and Sister Tracy Y. Browning, started their service on Aug. 1. A Church Information article featured how religion, authorized, tutorial and authorities leaders gathered in Rome, Italy, for the 2022 Notre Dame Non secular Liberty Summit to debate spiritual freedom.
Elder Massimo De Feo, the Church’s Europe Central Space president, was interviewed on this week’s episode of the Church Information podcast. Modifications have been launched within the Ebook of Mormon app to make for easier and pure sharing alternatives. With the anniversary of her Olympic silver medal, Latter-day Saint gymnast MyKayla Skinner shared what she’s been as much as within the 12 months since successful in Tokyo.
The Rojas household from Mexico shared their pioneer story. A gaggle of 43 faculty college students in Ghana turned the primary to expertise the Amos C. Brown Fellowship advantages as donated by the Church. And the 2022 Church Music Competition was broadcast reside from the Convention Middle Theater in Salt Lake Metropolis.
Discover summaries and hyperlinks to those 9 articles under.
1. President Nelson to rededicate the Washington D.C. Temple
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Washington D.C. Temple is pictured in Kensington, Maryland, on Monday, April 18, 2022.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
The Church’s total First Presidency is among the many 12 leaders collaborating in rededication companies following the temple’s main renovation.
President Russell M. Nelson will dedicate the renovated Washington D.C. Temple on Sunday, Aug. 14, with the whole First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collaborating within the day’s three rededication classes.
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2. Comply with new Aid Society and Major leaders on social media
Former Major President and now present Aid Society President Sister Camille N. Johnson introduces Major’s former first counselor, now president Sister Susan H. Porter on Fb on July 30, 2022.
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Aid Society and Major leaders posted on social media bidding farewell to some and welcoming others. The brand new Aid Society basic president is President Camille N. Johnson with Sister J. Anette Dennis as first counselor and Sister Kristin M. Yee as second counselor.
President Susan H. Porter is now Major basic president, and her first and second counselors are Sister Amy A. Wright and Sister Tracy Y. Browning.
Discover hyperlinks to their social media accounts
3. Non secular freedom article and video
A Church Information video, titled “Non secular Freedom Worldwide,” options interviews with main advocates of the trigger.
Those that take pleasure in spiritual freedom ought to take into consideration the circumstances of people that don’t take pleasure in spiritual liberty, stated President Dallin H. Oaks.
Religion, authorized, tutorial and authorities leaders gathered in Rome, Italy, for the 2022 Notre Dame Non secular Liberty Summit. Those that care about spiritual liberty ought to hyperlink arms to protect, defend, restore and defend spiritual freedom in the US and all over the world, they stated.
Learn the article and watch the video
4. Church Information podcast with Elder De Feo
In episode 95 of the Church Information podcast, Elder Massimo De Feo, president of the Church’s Europe Central Space, talks concerning the ‘unparalleled future’ of Europe regardless of making an attempt instances.
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Elder Massimo De Feo, a Normal Authority Seventy and president of the Church’s Europe Central Space, joins this episode of the Church Information podcast to speak about this necessary space of the world — which is impacted by a political battle, a refugee disaster and secularism.
Hearken to the podcast
5. Sharing Ebook of Mormon and app in regular, pure methods
Screenshots of the lately improved Ebook of Mormon app present content material from the app’s “uncover,” “watch” and “share” tabbed options.
Sharing the gospel is made simpler with the Ebook of Mormon’s new “uncover,” “watch” and “share” tab options.
As Justin Lether has discovered, sharing the gospel and the Ebook of Mormon in “regular and pure methods” can occur nearly any time or anyplace — on a subway, at a vacationer attraction, throughout a resort breakfast and even whereas soaking in a scorching tub on a cruise ship.
Uncover how
6. Catching up with MyKayla Skinner
MyKayla Skinner and her husband, Jonas Harmer, pose for pictures at their dwelling in American Fork on Friday, July 29, 2022. Skinner is holding her Olympic silver medal from the Tokyo 2020 video games.
Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Prayer, household help and the phrases of her patriarchal blessing helped former College of Utah athlete throughout her unlikely journey to the Olympic medal podium.
Previous to the Aug. 1, 2021, Olympics ladies’s vault finals, Skinner had lengthy been labeled as an elite worldwide athlete and a “medal hopeful.”
However when her second-place end was introduced, she graduated to rarified firm that holds no expiration date: Olympic medalist.
Discover out what she’s been as much as
7. Pioneers in each land: The Rojas household
Leonila Rivera and Amado Rojas pose for a photograph.
Development of the Church in Mexico has been regular for 176 years. However that progress was removed from a certainty and began in some sudden methods for one household now in its seventh era of membership within the Church.
“There have been loads of different church buildings in my neighborhood rising up,” stated Amado Rojas as he drove alongside the freeway close to that very same city of Tecálco, Mexico, many years later. “And with criticisms from members of these church buildings got here a need to study the gospel and discover fact.”
Get to know the Rojas household
8. Faculty college students expertise Amos C. Brown Fellowship in Ghana
College students with the Amos C. Brown Fellowship to Ghana go to the W.E.B. DuBois Middle in Accra on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
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This week, 43 college college students from the US started a 10-day journey to Ghana as contributors within the inaugural Amos C. Brown Fellowship.
The journey comes one 12 months after Church President Russell M. Nelson introduced the Church would create the fellowship with an preliminary donation of $250,000 to assist college students study concerning the cultural heritage of Ghana.
The fellowship is called for Reverend Dr. Amos C. Brown of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, who has turn out to be good friend of President Nelson. The 2 have collaborated on tasks between the Church and the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Folks (NAACP).
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9. Award-winning works featured in 2022 Church Music Competition
The Chacon household performs “I Will Say a Prayer” on the 2022 Church Music Competition on the Convention Middle Theater in Salt Lake Metropolis on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022.
Ben B. Braun, Deseret Information
“I Will Say a Prayer” — phrases and music by Janice Kapp Perry — was one of many 17 authentic award-winning works featured within the 2022 Church Music Competition “Rejoice!” The reside live performance originated from the Convention Middle Theater on Temple Sq. in Salt Lake Metropolis and was streamed on-line on the Church’s broadcast web page.