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@PeacemakingSt @Lew541207 I go to church to stay in church.

Why do you go to Church?

@_bro_hen @squeakyysteph87 Great accomplishment, I taught early morning seminary for 13 years.

📣Calling all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! We need to follow it other! I taught full time seminary for twenty years and I would love to share thoughts with my Twitter/X friends!

@FatherChrisVor1 So being impolite is your path?

People ask why I’m not more “polite” with Mormons or why I don’t use their full name. There’s a strong push to drop “Mormon” and say “Church of Jesus Christ.” Words shape perception. The more you hear “Jesus Christ,” the more it feels familiar. Mormonism is not Christianity. Good people, real charity, but a different faith. I don’t want to blur that line.

@SecretCityChez @SenorVito9 So sorry

My older sister Melanie passed away this morning. She is pictured here holding my hand. Mel taught me how to count to a hundred, how to write in cursive, and how to ride a bike. I wore all her hand-me-downs and followed her wherever she would let me. I will miss her. Please pray for her husband, children, and grandchildren.

@ScottWarner18 South Carolina

Our beautiful Tessa Belle just received her mission call. She will be opening it in an hour from now. I will give a $100 Amazon gift card to the first person who guesses where she will be serving for the next 18 months. Ready go!!!

@TabbClements Boyd K. Packer…. “Spiritual Crocodiles”

I have a question. Not doing this for clicks…but working on one of my passions. Since being a member of the LDS Church, what are the talks you have heard of later read that you consider a must read for other members…the messages that have inspired you to a new gospel understanding? The “classic” LDS reading list?

@skylergentry801 @Lovemyproxy My 4th great grandfather Edmund Ellsworth was married to Brigham’s oldest daughter. I’m through a different wife of Edmund. Can I then be kinda related to Brigham?

Happy Wednesday, folks! To be a peacemaker… My 5th Uncle Brigham Young said this…. All loves!! 🙏🏼🤟🏼🙏🏼🤟🏼

@BoyBlue @michcooley Best answer.

For all the murmurers out there - you do realize we’re a global Church now? And people outside the USA generally speak other languages? These new names are translatable and keep their meaning better than Mia Maid and Laurel do. Not only do we need to think Celestial, we need to think Global Church!

@ElGranCheerio Amen.

Our 6-year-old has been sad since yesterday. She found out that a boy in her grade passed away from cancer last week. They weren’t friends, but she knew who he was—especially because his classroom was right next to hers. When we asked her about him last week, she said she thought he had moved schools because she hadn’t seen him for a while. The poor kid had been battling cancer since he was 2 years old and had only just been declared cancer-free in November. We didn’t want to tell her, but her sisters already knew. She kept asking my wife, and we knew it was only a matter of time before she heard it from her classmates. I came home last night at 12 a.m., and my wife and I stayed up talking about him and crying. I don’t complain to God. Life is unfair to everyone—including Jesus. No one deserved better and got worse from life than Jesus. But if I ever come close to complaining to God about anything, it’s childhood cancer. It breaks me. I start crying as though it were my own child who had passed away. Damn, I’m still crying today just thinking about it. I had to step away when I was asking my daughter about that boy last week. The whole school is wearing blue tomorrow in his memory. His name is Richard. You’re with God now.

I was 10-14 years old at the time. I remember him coming to our ward dinners and dances on the ranch. He stayed with my Uncle Leo Ellsworth in his home on the ranch. My dad took a lot of videos of him there. Wish I remembered more. The ranch was very new at the time and the Church was very key on keeping up with what was going on. I also remember many apostles coming and going, particularly Nathan Eldon Tanner.

@KENFRIDDLE Amazing. Any interesting stories or statements that you could share from his visits?

From David O McKay on the Book of Mormon: Neglecting it brings darkness. Using it brings light and joy. "I said to you that I know that the Lord communicates with his servants. I have not doubted this as a fact since I was a boy and heard the testimony of my father, regarding the revelation that came to him of the divinity of the mission of the Prophet Joseph. I feel impressed to relate that circumstance and add his testimony to the one that I am now giving. He accepted a call to a mission about 1880. When he began preaching, in his native land, and bore testimony of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, he noticed that the people turned away from him. They were bitter in their hearts against anything ''Mormon," and the name of Joseph Smith seemed to arouse antagonism in their hearts. One day he concluded that the best way to get these people would be to preach just the simple principles, the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, the first principles of the gospel, and not bear testimony of the restoration of the gospel. It first came simply, as a passing thought, but yet it influenced his future work. In a month or so he became oppressed with a gloomy, downcast feeling and he could not enter into the spirit of his work. He did not really know what was the matter, but his mind became obstructed, his spirit became clogged, he was oppressed and hampered; and that feeling of depression continued until it weighed him down with such heaviness that he went to the Lord and said: ''Unless I can get this feeling removed, I will have to go home. I can not continue my work with this feeling." It continued for some time after that, when, one morning, before daylight, following a sleepless night, he decided to retire to a cave, near the ocean, where he knew he would be shut off from the world entirely, and there pour out his soul to God and ask why he was oppressed with this feeling, what he had done, and what he could do to throw it off and continue his work. He started out in the dark towards the cave, and he became so eager to get to it that he started to run and was hailed by an officer* who wanted to know what was the matter, as he was leaving the town. He gave some non-committal but satisfying reply and was permitted to go on. Something just seemed to drive him; he had to get relief. He entered that place and said: ''Oh, Father, what can I do to have this feeling removed? I must have it lifted or I cannot continue in this work;" and he heard a voice, as distinct as the tone I am now Tittering, say: "Testify that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God." Remembering, then, what he tacitly had decided six weeks or more before, and becoming overwhelmed with the thought, the whole thing came to him in a realization that he was there for a special mission; and that he had not given that special mission the attention which it deserved. Then he cried in his heart, "Lord, it is enough," and went out from the cave. You who know him know the mission he performed. As a boy, I sat and heard that testimony from one Whom I trusted and honored, as you know I treasured no other man in the world, and that assurance was instilled in my youthful soul. The Inspiration and testimony of God has come since, and today I testify to you that God lives, and that lie is guiding this Church, that he has inspired those at the head, and that he will continue to inspire them and lead them through this turmoil and unrest in the world, caused by unrighteousness, wickedness and lack of faith in God.   - Millennial Star March 24, 1921

@thetempleledger It’s so good to see a baptism performed the way Christ taught and with the correct priesthood authority received through the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Learn more churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng

My handsome husband baptizing our newest convert today 🙌 #SaintsOnX #LDSX

@Local_man2479 @EricCMeadows Beautiful picture.

Port-harcourt baptized 66 last weekend isn’t that wonderful?

@cboyack @C_3C_3 You’re in education? Slavery was central in the reason for the Civil War.

@C_3C_3 The civil war wasn’t fought to end slavery. It was fought to keep the Union together.

Want some truth? There are ~195 sovereign countries in the World and all 195 have had slavery. But… Out of those 195 countries the United States is the only one that fought a full scale Civil War to end it.

@d_stevensonBYU @BYUfootball @kalanifsitake Talked to Kalani and Timberly yesterday, they love your family.

@BYUfootball @kalanifsitake We love BYU!

@hollslo @RestoredLife100 Yes true! And don’t ever pray about if it’s true. The Spirit can’t tell the difference. ( James 1:5 )

@RestoredLife100 Looks like Christianity but Mormonism is the farthest thing from Christianity, be aware of Mormonism.

From a cross. to an empty tomb. to a risen Savior. This is why we remember this week.

@MattCas04807118 Sweetheart

Ouch! ❤️ Natalia 👏👏

@MattCas04807118 Darling

More Natalia.❤️ Her family were told that she was unlikely to ever walk, they forgot to tell her.🤛

@elonmusk Would love one for my wife so she could go places

True

@JimRoland15 Perfect

It’s a beautiful day for church. The boy asked if we could dress to match today. How’d we do?