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Nursery

I’ve already covered how it works to deal with a baby during LDS worship services, but I wanted to bring it up again because we’ve reached an important milestone… T1 is entering Nursery! In LDS culture, saying this elicits high fives and congratulations from fellow parents. Before now, we were wrestling him down for 3 [...]

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Favorite Talks from General Conference October 2011

In the past I’ve tried to live-blog my thoughts on General Conference, but this year I decided to write up a recap with video links and note my favorite talks. If you’re new to That Wife and haven’t read about General Conference before, I wrote up an explanatory post about it here. The following talks [...]

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Trials

This video never fails to bring a few tears to my eyes. I find it so moving. Today I’m teaching the women of our congregation during the hour of church known as Relief Society. The topic for this lesson is based on a talk entitled More Than Conquerors Through Him That Loved Us. I wanted [...]

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The Apocrypha

I scrolled through Formspring to find a simple question I could answer in 5 minutes or less: Do LDS read the deuterocanonical books? (AKA the Apocrypha) Why or why not? Some of you may not know that during his time as prophet Joseph Smith actually worked on translating the Old Testament to restore some of [...]

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Do Female Missionaries Ride Bikes?

This might be a silly question, but do women missionaries bike? I was biking in my skirt today on my way to mass and wondering if the female missionaries were allowed to do the same! Could be hard, I think they were longer skirts, right? – Jackie I researched this one by stalking my friend’s [...]

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