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 May 6 — The Church recently announced a couple of changes it will be making to the Young Women’s program later this year.

The Church’s Newsroom website reads:

“The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced changes to age-group names for young women. The purpose of the new names is to “help young women understand their divine place in God’s work, to represent their spiritual dignity as His beloved daughters, and to highlight their progression.” (more…)

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“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1

Ensign, ‘The Lighthouse of the Lord: A Message to the Youth of the Church,’ February 2001 “…Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts: “I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. I know that happiness and contentment are there, and I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it. I grant that I cannot explain the miracles of the Bible, and I do not attempt to do so, but I accept God’s word. I wasn’t with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.” – Thomas Monson (more…)

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2 Corinthians 10:5 “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ”.

Ensign, ‘The Lighthouse of the Lord: A Message to the Youth of the Church,’ February 2001 “…associate with those who, like us, are planning not for temporary convenience, shallow goals, or narrow ambition–but rather with those who value the things that matter most, even eternal objectives. … Let us remember that the wisdom of God may appear as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and we obey, we will always be right. … The writer of the book of Ecclesiastes also wrote… “The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,” but to those who endure to the end…” – Thomas Monson [emp. mine] (more…)

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