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New Episodes of Affirmation Podcast Released

May 14, 2014 |

Episodes 6 and 7 of the Affirmation Podcast have been released! Continuing from Episode 5, these two episodes feature some of what we were able to record from the 2014 Nauvoo Leadership Retreat.

New Episode of Affirmation Podcast Released

May 13, 2014 |

Episode 5 of the Affirmation Podcast has been released! This episode features a recorded meeting from the 2014 Nauvoo leadership retreat.

Reflections on Mothers’ Day

May 10, 2014 |

If my mother hadn’t strengthened me with her courage in that moment, I don’t know when I would have found enough courage of my own to come out

Nauvoo and the Search for Home

May 10, 2014 |

We Latter-day Saints smile through pain. My entire life I made sure to take pain in a way that showed my friends, my family, and the members of my ward that everything was fine, even as my world was crumbling. I tried to turn it into good, without taking the time to mourn.

Reflections on Affirmation Nauvoo Retreat, May 2014

May 5, 2014 |

Being in this place of truly living authentic to what the Saints believed has and continues to give me courage to live authentically being true to who I am as a Latter-day Saint and as a lesbian

Step by Step: the Nauvoo Leadership Retreat

May 5, 2014 |

When you climb up a ladder, you must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the gospel – you must begin with the first, and go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation. But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them. It is not all to be comprehended in this world; it will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave. — Joseph Smith, Jr.

Transcription of April 2014 Affirmation Post General Conference Discussion

April 27, 2014 |

Speakers: Berta Marquez, Bob Rees, Erika Munson, Greg Prince, John Gustav-Wrathall, Randall Thacker, Samy Galvez

Mi Propia Historia

April 27, 2014 |

Diariamente nos esforzamos por ser mejores y es por eso que somos tan grandemente bendecidos

My Own Story

April 27, 2014 |

Every day, we strive to become better people and that is why we have so many blessings