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“Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” –
D&C 88:118
Quote
“Measured by this celestial standard, it is apparent that those who impulsively “drop out” and cut short their education not only disregard divine decree but frustrate the realization of their own potential.” – Russell M. Nelson
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This Day in LDS History
1838: Some two hundred vigilantes attack the isolated Mormon settlement of Haun’s Mill, killing seventeen men and boys and wounding fourteen more. The Missouri State Militia, consisting of approximately twenty-five hundred troops, arrives at the outskirts of Far West. Eight or nine hundred Mormons stand ready to defend the community.
1966: At a meeting in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Elder Gordon B. Hinckley dedicates Vietnam for the preaching of the gospel.
1982: The Church opens a visitors’ center at the Grandin printing building, in Palmyra, New York, where the Book of Mormon was first printed in 1830.