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General Conference- You Can’t Afford To Miss It
March 29, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormoncopia
I’ve always enjoyed General Conference, but it was on my mission to Ecuador where I really came to appreciate the magnitude of what was taking place. Let’s just think about this for a second. During the time of The Bible and The Book of Mormon, prophets walked the earth, teaching and exhorting the people in [...]
Mormon Beliefs: The Book of Mormon
March 27, 2009 by DH
Filed under LDS Beliefs
What are words? It’s what you say face to face to other people. It’s what you say over the phone, through email or text message. Though God may not use all of those forms of communication, His words have been left in books called scriptures.
Christians accept the Bible as the word of God, as do [...]
General Conference: the new Apostle and new temples are…
March 20, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormoncopia
General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a set of several meetings held bi-annually (April and October) in which Church leaders teach doctrine and encourage members to continue faithful as well as carry out administrative tasks. One of these administrative tasks is to fill any voids that may exist in [...]
Mormon Messages Video: God’s Words…Never Cease
March 16, 2009 by DH
Filed under LDS Beliefs
Mormon Messages is an official channel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on YouTube. I don’t mean to make the blog a simple extension of YouTube nor Mormon Messages but I saw this video of Jeffrey R. Holland (A member of The Quorum of The Twelve Apostles of The LDS Church.) and I couldn’t [...]
Mormon Messages Video: Gordon Hinckley – Lessons I Learned as a Boy
March 16, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormoncopia
Mormon Messages is an official channel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on YouTube that produce videos of various subjects relating to The Church. Recently Why Mormons Build Temples has been the hot video as chronicled at LDS Media Talk.
The video below is one that I actually saw a General Priesthood meeting last [...]
March Madness: BYU Basketball and Danny Ainge the Stormin’ Mormon Video
March 15, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormoncopia
With March Madness set to begin this week I couldn’t resist posting the following clip of Danny Ainge going coast to coast to beat Notre Dame in the ‘81 NCAA tournament. For BYU fans let’s hope they finally win a game in the NCAA tournament and don’t do the ‘ol “one and done.” We’ll find [...]
Why Mormons Build Temples Video
March 14, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormon Temples
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has recently released the following video on why Mormons build temples. We’ve also previously published our own LDS Temples Video here at Mormon World. Enjoy!
New Author-Sangeetha from India: My conversion story
March 12, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormon Asia
A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from India has been kind of enough to agree to be a regular contributor here at From the Dust. What follows is her first post, her conversion story. (I have done some grammatical editing but have tried to alter the context/content as little as [...]
HBO’s TV series Big Love: The Mormon reaction to misrepresented publicity
March 9, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormon Temples
As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grows, people are becoming more and more aware of who we are. As curiosity grows, it is natural for false-representations and criticism to develop and grow. However, these things are not new to Latter-day Saints. From it’s humble beginnigns in 1830, the church has been misunderstood, [...]
Miracles in the Middle East-membership doubles in 5 years
March 8, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormon Middle East
In a follow-up of yesterday’s post “New Stake President in the Middle East” there is another article detailing the progress of the Manama Bahrain Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Middle East. Highlights include:
Church meetings are held on Friday due to the fact that Friday (and not Sunday) is [...]
New Stake President in the Middle East
March 7, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormon Middle East
I saw a fascinating article over at LDS Church News (and Mormon Times) talking about the Church in the Middle East. A few of the highlights:
The stake is the “Manama Bahrain Stake” and consists of 16 units
The units are spread out in the area including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain
It was the first official [...]
Self-Reliance- True Freedom
March 5, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormoncopia
The latest March Ensign has a very large section on self-reliance. One of the articles is a talk given by the late Marion G. Romney back in a 1982 general conference. In this talk he reads out of a Reader’s Digest article entitled “Fable of the Gullible Gull”. In a nut shell the story relates [...]
