This Week in Latter-days

The Sisters are here!! Aren't they great? Let's enjoy our last round of news before General Conference and think about what might be coming our way this weekend!

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Latter-day Saint News

Where did CTR rings come from?

American Latter-day Saint becomes Ukrainian refugee

Main Street Plaza at Temple Square closing in April

Former BYU counsel appears on behalf of Ketanji Brown Jackson

BYU honors Jewish Passover with Seder dinner

NAACP reading list includes talk by President Nelson

Ulisses Soares served a mission before going to the temple

BYU makes list of top party schools

Tabernacle Choir announces special Easter program

Relief Society General Presidency likely to be released in General Conference

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TWiM Sisters

All right? hello there welcome to This Week in Mormons the sisters edition with your hosts Arianne Smith and Tiffany Hales real life sisters. Yeah and sisters. And the castle. So true here. We are at the end of March at the end of March we just finished spring break we did and so tell me about your spring break. Um, my spring break was pretty uneventful but the week before spring break I got to go chaperone a sixth grade trip. Science overnight camp in the snowy mountains and I couldn't decide if you north of quite crazy I didn't go for the whole week I only wear a glutton for punishment I only went for 2 nights with my sixth grade daughter. It was a fascinating observation of sixth graders in the wild. Literally in the wild. So I had like a cabin of five girls that I was in charge of like making sure they got to the right place at the right time there were there were college grad students there to like teach them. How to do this science. You don't have to teach anything you mass there to make sure there to make sure really behaved. There was no. Funny business. No nonsense. So yeah, did you sleep in the cabin. Yes I slept in the cabin with my girls and I don't you? How did you did you even get any yeah calling it sleep is a stretch that is for sure the second night one of the other chaperones had mercy on me and slipped me one of her melatonins. And then I was thinking if I were really smart and now I know because I've never done this before next time I'm going to get something serious like who do I know that has ambien oh you? Oh you got some right? Yeah, you just you just come to your local pharmacy which is my house I can hook you up with just about anything. Lessons for next time because I could not sleep in that cabin pool of girls not because of them. They were actually pretty good I just like couldn't yeah yeah know so but and you got 2 more kids that you have the potential to do that for. Because they do this for all 6 yeah graders. So my oldest daughter my husband went for half the week and so this was like my turn with our second oldest so we'll see if we make it for the next two. But here are my 2 observations. Okay yes, the same. What have you learned from sixth grade girls is wild. The sixth grade girls. Talk a whole lot about the boys and they like to have dance parties so that was great. The sixth grade boys wrestle. All they do wrestling sad that that all day every day I mean they even had like presentations and skits that they had to give on their like science experiments.

02:41.85

TWiM Sisters

Somehow they always worked wrestling into the skits and the presentations and then when they had free time. They're just wrestling in the snow this is like this is new information for me as a mom of girls but I do have one boy. So now I'm prepared. You see this is not new information to me because.

Every six months, we get some right and some wrong, but we have a great time doing it. Let us predict general conference temple announcements.

Is God's love "unconditional"? Counting down the remaining temples with a Moroni statue. Liahona articles need authors!

Rumors abound about a crackdown on extra-doctrinal discussions surrounding Heavenly Mother.

Latter-day Saints step up their aid to Ukrainians, LDS Living overlooks the best thing about Church membership, temple updates, and more!

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already directly affected millions of people, among them are Latter-day Saints.

Hailey Smith is here to talk COVID guidelines, Brad Wilcox, BYU news, new Tabernacle Choir initiatives, and affordable housing.

BYU professor, fireside speaker, and member of the Young Men's General Presidency, Brad Wilcox, has had a pretty troubling week. Leaked fireside remarks showed Brother Wilcox using insensitive language to discuss race and the priesthood and women and the priesthood, making disparaging remarks about other religions, and employing fear tactics to keep youth from leaving the Church.

Overall, it was pretty bad, and social media erupted in condemnation. Brad Wilcox apologized twice for his remarks, but is he apologizing for the right things? Can the Church truly move forward on racial issues while refusing to reckon with its past? How can we move past a privileged white male's perspective as the default one in Church culture? How do we acknowledge difficult doctrinal issues without being patronizing to those more adversely affected by them? There's lots to unpack here.

Of course, there's still other news, and you can grab links to the stories below!

Latter-day Saint News

Brad Wilcox

Brad Wilcox first apology

President of BYU Black Student Union responds

BYU is "deeply concerned"

Sam Brunson on abandoning prejudice

Sam Brunson on insensitivity towards women

Second apology

What do you do when Brad Wilcox and John Bytheway no longer have all the answers?

Other News

President Nelson shares Valentine's Day message

The twice-evacuated missionary

New Deseret Industries in Tucson

Napoleon Dynamite retrospective

Women's Session returns to General Conference

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Transcript

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Geoff Openshaw

Everybody how's it going welcome to this weekend Mormons the premiere latter day Saint News Podcast I'm Jeff Openshaw we're thrilled to have all of you with us this week big show this week lots of talk about president Nelson breaking the mold and sharing messages about Valentine's day never seen that before. Um.

00:04.79

Jared

And I'm Jared gillins.

00:19.55

Geoff Openshaw

Lots of drama happening at Byu Lgbt Bills in Arizona you know missionaries being evacuated twice during the same mission and you know there's this little batter of 1 Brad Wilcox that I guess maybe we'll we'll get into you know it's ah brother Wilcox is terrible. Horrible. No good, very bad week and we'll have play to say. About that and of course last but not least a new location for desret industries. That's that's our that's our major one but we won't tell you where until we get there. Gotta find you gotta hang out for the whole pot. Ah Jared. How's it going though? What's what's new with you. How's life.

00:55.67

Jared

I'm I'm good and I'm doing all right and life's pretty good I had it fun. We can hanging out with my in-laws. We watched the super bowl together at my really oh I Guess you're from that area.

01:03.10

Geoff Openshaw

go rams go rams so I didn't have like a lot of feelings about it I mean the thing is the rams played in Anaheim down the street for me through most of my early youth. But then they left in like 94 or after the 94 season so most of my life.

01:15.86

Jared

Is that when they went to St Louis right

01:19.43

Geoff Openshaw

Would say louis and the raiders left at the same time back to Oakland so I mostly grew up in my adolescence without there being professional football in Southern California so it's just that wasn't a thing that anybody really cared about so it's great that they're back. But I also love cincinnati.

01:29.98

Jared

So when you were a kid what were they were they the Los Angeles rams or were they the Los Angeles rams of Anaheim even though they played in Orange County yeah

01:35.42

Geoff Openshaw

Of anahe that was I believe back then they were just the l a rams yes, they played at Anaheim stadium which is shared with the angels.

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