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Viewpoint: An insider’s view

Feb 09, 2012 No Comments by

In 2007, I married my amazing husband in the Logan Temple. He had served a full-time mission, where he taught many people the gospel. We started our family, stayed active in the Church, paid a full tithe and completed graduate school at BYU. Just before our four-year anniversary, I discovered that my husband has suffered [...]

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Viewpoint: It’s an enslavement

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I don’t remember when I first viewed pornography, but I was very young. The details of my story aren’t important, but it ends like this: I became an addict. I’ve struggled with this addiction for years now, and I like to think I’ve learned a few things along the way. I hope you can learn [...]

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Letter: Save the soil

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Imagine seeing a quarter that’s been dropped in freshly fallen snow. Imagine the ease and the feeling of triumph with which that quarter becomes yours. Another day’s worth of ramen noodles. Imagine now another quarter in the snow by another student’s path. Imagine thousands of students walking on that snow, trampling it to ice. Imagine [...]

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Letter: Keeping it cool

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I just want to commend everyone for appropriately handling the hullabaloo in the Testing Center on Tuesday night. The computer systems went down, and the line was abnormally huge, but I was impressed how patient and understanding students were in general. Employees worked hard to accommodate so many students and kept us entertained. For the [...]

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