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Teenagers are sharing photos of their AP U.S. Government textbooks, and the sheer amount of indoctrination is wildly disturbing. Apparently, Barack Obama is ideologically a right wing authoritarian. Hillary Clinton and George W Bush are entirely indistinguishable politically. Donald Trump is of course virtually the same as Hitler. @tedcruz is apparently more radically authoritarian than Fidel Castro AND Joseph Stalin..??!!?? @Linda_McMahon — can we expedite some major changes to American public education?

James S. McDonnell, founder of McDonnell Douglas, started noticing something strange in his machines… Engineers called them: “Gremlins.” Moments where systems didn’t behave the way physics said they should. Subtle. Repeatable. Unexplainable. So he funded a lab at Princeton University: Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research To find out what was causing it. What they discovered: Humans could slightly influence machines… especially in heightened emotional states. Pilots. Surgeons. Engineers. Same pattern. The observer wasn’t separate from the system. Mind affects matter.

Heavenly Father, cancel every demonic battle that is fighting against every child of God. In Jesus name.

Sometimes we all need this reminder. No matter how bad it looks, God is in control.

The LDS church baptized more people in 2025 than any year on record - a 25% increase over 2024. Last month there was a week with 10,000 baptisms & 2,500 missionary applications - both records. 2026 will blow 2025 out of the water. Christianity is booming - Happy Easter!

BREAKING: 🚨The Pentagon press briefing scheduled for tomorrow morning has been canceled. Something BIG is happening soon! 😳

As I have been pondering the changes made within the church over the past decade, I thought of something that Neal A. Maxwell said about the Church being "scaffolding", that would one day be removed. As I was looking to find the exact quote, I was given more insight from a grok search.. "Several LDS leaders have addressed the idea that the scaffolding (representing the Church's programs, aids, organization, or administrative functions) is TEMPORARY and will eventually be removed or taken down once its purpose-- building strong individuals and eternal families-- IS FULFILLED." Harold B. Lee originally said: "Much of what we do organizationally in the Church is scaffolding, as we seek to BUILD the individual, and we must not mistake the scaffolding for the soul." From L. Tom Perry “There are two principal reasons why I appreciate President Lee’s metaphor for the Church—as scaffolding for our eternal families. First, it helps me understand what the Church is. Second, and equally important, I understand what the Church is not.” That’s an interesting perspective, isn’t it? Although the Church plays a pivotal role in proclaiming, announcing, and administering the necessary ordinances of salvation and exaltation— all of that, as important as it is, is really just the scaffolding being used in an infinite and eternal construction project to build, support, and strengthen the FAMILY. And just as scaffolding is eventually taken down and put away to REVEAL the final completed building, so too will the mortal, administrative functions of the Church eventually fade as the eternal family comes FULLY INTO VIEW.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell taught: “The true believer... sees that some Church aids are, in a sense, scaffolding for the soul, which scaffolding one day will be REMOVED— like water wings or training wheels.” Again from my grok search—Teachings on "home-centered, Church-supported" gospel learning (from the 2019 Come, Follow Me adjustments and related addresses by President Russell M. Nelson and others) reflect the same principle: The Church provides support that helps families increasingly STAND ON THEIR OWN, reducing reliance on centralized programs over time. The metaphor underscores that while the Church remains essential for ordinances, covenants, and community, its organization "scaffolding" aspects are means to an end- NOT the end itself. As individuals and families GROW STRONGER, some administrative elements naturally become less central." Home CENTERED, church supported. As I was walking around the temple grounds, I noticed one small piece of scaffolding remaining on the north side. Just one small piece remained. I thought of how we rejoiced as each piece of scaffolding came down, revealing more and more of the beautiful temple we love. We appreciated the restored beauty even more, as we had to wait so long to have it revealed to us. So it is with our own individual lives! The scaffolding of the Church is being slowly removed, a little at a time, and will eventually reveal to us the beautiful work that God has CREATED in EACH of our lives. He knows what He is doing! So as the changes come, as prophets continue to lead us, we can TRUST that God is creating something more beautiful for us than we can imagine. Through His prophets, He is preparing EACH of us for GREAT THINGS ahead… and in His own time He will reveal it to us. And we might just be surprised at how beautiful it is! We can TRUST HIM! #SaintsOnX #HearHim

Every Easter, I find myself thinking about one morning from years ago. My brother had a friend sleep over the night before, just a regular kid who tagged along without expecting much of anything. When my mom came into the living room that morning, she found him curled up on the couch, still half asleep while the rest of the house was starting to stir. She had already prepared Easter baskets for my brother and me, everything neatly arranged and waiting. But there wasn’t one for him. For a second, it could’ve just stayed that way, he wasn’t her child, and no one would’ve questioned it. But my mom…

BREAKING: France has officially removed all of its gold reserves from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.

Is it my imagination or have we heard the "Road to Emmaus" a lot this conference? Signaling to us the hour is near so we will recognize Him when He comes the second time? #GeneralConference #LDSconf

Reminder for all young parents: You only get: - 1 Summer with your baby - 3 with your toddler - 9 with your child - 5 with your teenager This time is precious. Don’t rush it.

The only tribe on earth that doesn’t experience depression does something that modern parents forbid their children to do before going to sleep. In 2018, anthropologists from the University of Helsinki lived for six months with the Kaluli tribe in Papua New Guinea. What surprised the researchers most was what happened after sunset. > Every evening before sleep, Kaluli children gathered around the fire and spoke out loud about frightening or painful experiences ->falls, losses, even nightmares. The parents didn’t interrupt them. They didn’t try to comfort them. They simply listened, until the child’s breathing slowed. The Kaluli call this “night clearing” releasing fears before sleep so the nervous system can reset. > Western psychology confirms this. Speaking fears out loud calms the nervous system. Suppressing them what many are taught with “don’t think about bad things before bed” keeps the stress cycle active and forces the body to process fear throughout the night. > The Kaluli say: “The body sleeps when the story ends.” This practice teaches children to face their emotions instead of hiding from them the opposite of modern bedtime silence. • Try it tonight. Say your worst thoughts of the day out loud even if you’re alone in the room. Then breathe until your pulse slows. You will feel immediate relief. The mind stops fearing the darkness once it has been named.

The secular world just sees people standing and raising their hands. They will never understand the real, spiritual power created by a collective, unified expression of faith. All around the world… in the Conference Center, chapels, living rooms… and I’m sure on roadways, in offices, fields and worksites… Latter-day Saints everywhere stopped, stood, and raised their hand toward heaven to sustain the Prophet of the Lamb. For a moment, we all oriented our bodies and spirits together towards Christ and heaven. The modern world - obsessed with individuality - will never understand.

“If you don’t have the Holy Ghost, you WILL be deceived.” - @OaksDallinH #GeneralConference

The literal resurrection of Jesus is, of course, the subject of so many scriptures that it is settled doctrine for believers of the Bible and Book of Mormon. For us, the universal resurrection is equally certain. I wonder if we fully appreciate the enormous significance of our belief in a literal, universal resurrection. The conviction that death is not the conclusion of our identity changes the whole perspective of our mortal life. It affects how we look on the physical challenges of mortality. It gives us the strength and perspective to endure the mortal challenges faced by each of us and by those we love. It signifies that mortal deficiencies are only temporary! It also gives us the courage to face our own death or that of loved ones—even deaths we might call premature. Our belief in the resurrection also encourages us to fulfill our family responsibilities in mortality. It helps us live together in love in this life in anticipation of joyful reunions and associations in the next. #GreaterLove #GeneralConference Artwork: “Above All” by Kelsy and Jesse Lighweave

🚨 BREAKING: It’s now CONFIRMED — the rescued American airman trapped inside Iranian territory survived completely ON HIS OWN, hidden inside a mountain crevice along a ridge. He was totally invisible to the enemy. But AMERICA found him. AMERICA WINS 🇺🇸🔥

Soon.

" We live in a season where the adversary has become so effective at disguising the truth that if we don't have the gift of the Holy Ghost we WILL be deceived." - Elder Clark G. Gilbert

I went back to read the resurrection accounts of Matthew and John this morning and noticed something interesting. The first words out of Jesus’ mouth after the resurrection were “go tell my brothers.” And it brought me to tears. Matthew 28:10. Read it slowly. The stone has just rolled back. Death has just been defeated for the first time in human history. The most consequential moment in the cosmos has just occurred. And the risen King opens his mouth and calls us brothers. But Matthew alone might not stop you. So go to John 20:17, where he tells Mary what to tell them: “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” He does not say “the Father.” He does not say “God.” He says MY Father is now YOUR Father. MY God is now YOUR God. He rises and the first thing he does is redistribute the inheritance. This is where most people misread the resurrection. They treat it as a power demonstration. Jesus proved he was God. Jesus showed death who was boss. And those things are true but they are not the point. The point is what he did with the power once he had it. Because what I have learned in my few years on earth is that when men have power, the immediate instinct is to reclassify. The people who were their peers become subordinates. The people who called you brother now call you sir. We have seen it in offices, in governments, in churches. Elevation changes vocabulary. The higher a man rises the lonelier the pronoun “we” becomes. Jesus rose to the highest position in the universe and his vocabulary did not change. He came back and said brothers. He said your Father. He said our God. He reclassified upward. He used his exaltation not to press us into subjects but to pull us into sons. This is the actual consequence of the resurrection: ADOPTION. A dead savior cannot make you a son. A dead elder brother cannot bring you into the family. He had to conquer death because brothers share in each other’s life and he could not give us what he had not first secured himself. Romans 8:29 calls him the firstborn among many brothers. Firstborn means there are others coming. You are not a spectator of his resurrection. You are its intended outcome. The crowned King looked across the infinite chasm between his holiness and your humanity and the word he chose was not “subject.” It was not “servant.” It was not even “beloved.” He said brother. On the other side of death, with all authority in heaven and earth, he said brother. So celebrate today for everything it is. Celebrate the empty tomb, celebrate the vindication of a man the world tried, condemned, and buried, and whom heaven refused to leave in the ground. Celebrate the sins that are gone and the immeasurable, uncontainable, universe-rearranging power of God on full display. But do not miss the most beautiful thing. He did not just cancel your debt. He gave you a name. He did not just acquit you. He adopted you. Forgiveness would have been everything. Sonship is more than everything. And he gave us both. The risen King called us brothers. That means the Father he returned to is the Father we are returning to. That means the glory he walked into is the glory we are walking toward. That means Easter is not just the day Jesus won. It is the day you inherited everything he won it for. Hallelujah! He is risen.

"In the perilous times in which we live, the rising generation needs a defense and refuge from the storm." @StevensonGaryE #GeneralConference