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Episode 42

Thursday, November 12

23 min · 8 sources · Church News, BYU-Idaho Speeches, BYU Speeches, followHIM Podcast

0:00-23:02

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In this episode

Elder Soares joins Pope Leo XIV at interfaith gathering in Buenos Aires

0:48

Church News · 2 min

Elder Ulisses Soares joined religious leaders in Buenos Aires on Nov. 9 to hear Pope Leo XIV speak on friendship, human dignity and peace.

Church Music Festival in the Tabernacle draws heavily on the new hymnbook

2:35

Church News · 6 min

Church News reports on the Nov. 7 Church Music Festival in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, where more than half the program came from the new hymnbook, "Hymns for Home and Church."

Bishop Douglas at BYU-Idaho: Church's 2025 humanitarian work and a call to give now

5:16

BYU-Idaho Speeches · 24 min

Bishop Sean Douglas of the Presiding Bishopric, speaking ahead of a campus service fair, teaches that loving God means caring for those in need, and walks through the Church's 2025 humanitarian work with stories from his and Sister Douglas's trip to West Africa.

Elder Koch tells BYU students spiritual intelligence matters most

8:45

Church News · 4 min

Elder Joni L. Koch told BYU students at a Nov. 10 devotional that spiritual intelligence matters most of all the kinds of intelligence, and gave several signs that a person is developing it.

Elder Stevenson speaks at interfaith forum in Azerbaijan during Europe Central Area ministry

11:04

Church News · 4 min

Elder Gary E. Stevenson's Oct. 22 to 31 ministry in the Europe Central Area took him to Paris, an interfaith forum in Azerbaijan, government meetings in Uzbekistan and mission leader training in Vienna.

BYU President Reese tells students to put away phones and earbuds and talk to each other

13:41

BYU Speeches · 3 min

BYU President C. Shane Reese asks students to take out their earbuds, bury their phones and talk to the people around them, because awkward human contact is how they grow and how they serve.

Elder Schmitt asks new MTC missionaries to drop five nets

15:35

Church News · 5 min

At a Nov. 10 Provo MTC devotional, Elder Jonathan S. Schmitt, executive director of the Missionary Department, asked 1,535 new missionaries to drop five "nets" straightway, as Peter and Andrew did.

followHIM ties Daniel's three friends to six missionaries who skipped the Titanic

18:18

followHIM Podcast · 6 min

Hank Smith and John Bytheway pair Daniel 3's three faithful friends with the story of six missionaries, led by Alma Sonne, who skipped the Titanic so they wouldn't leave a delayed companion behind.

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