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Laureen Simper
May 135 min read
You're Not the Boss of Me
We've got to talk about the most incredulous irony of the universe. All things were created by God. He is the King of the universe, and...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 295 min read
After the Miracle
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 4-6) Conversion is a miracle - the biggest, really. I mean, think about it. The Red Sea? It had no choice but to...
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Laureen Simper
Apr 253 min read
Would You Vote for This Man?
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 1-3) Mosiah 2:17 is almost iconic in its universal recognition and application: “And behold, I tell you these...
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Laureen Simper
Mar 266 min read
Ten Virgins, Time Travel, and Trajectories
(Originally published in Millennial Instructor, Volume 3, 2018) The Savior gave His disciples the parable of the ten virgins at the end...
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Laureen Simper
Mar 227 min read
Holy is the Goal
(From talk given in sacrament meeting March 10, 2024) God's plan for our salvation is absolutely yummy. The technical scriptural term is...
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Laureen Simper
Feb 103 min read
Three-Sided Coin
Come Follow Me (2 Nephi 2) I’m forever indebted to David A. Bednar for expounding the importance of being agents to act rather than...
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Laureen Simper
Feb 94 min read
Cracking the Code
Come Follow Me - 2 Nephi 1-2 I love 2 Nephi with all my little girl heart. I think of it as headwaters in the Book of Mormon; the purest...
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Laureen Simper
Feb 14 min read
What Are You Practicing?
A sleeper scripture tucked into 1 Nephi 14 became ‘new writing’ for me when BYU chose it for the theme for their women’s conference...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 283 min read
Getting Through the Wilderness
Come Follow Me (1 Nephi 16-22) I love that God teaches in patterns. A free associating brain like mine has a much easier time connecting...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 234 min read
Two Churches
Come Follow Me (1 Nephi 11-15 Part 2) The panorama of Nephi’s vision continues in 1 Nephi 13 - amazing prophecy where Nephi is shown many...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 223 min read
The Gulf of Ideologies
Come Follow Me (1 Nephi 11-15) I love 1st Nephi chapter 8 - Lehi’s dream of the Tree of Life. There’s so much to study and dissect and...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 174 min read
Forgetting Angels
Come Follow Me - 1 Nephi 7-10 It seems hard to imagine that a few days could go by, and you could forget you’d seen an angel who kind of...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 155 min read
What If Ya Just Don't Wanna?
Come Follow Me - 1 Nephi 1-5 I remember a day when my children were still at home and I was experiencing a powerful episode of cheerful,...
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Laureen Simper
Jan 84 min read
The Book of Mormon - So Much More Than First Nephi
You know the problem with the Book of Mormon? It’s over 500 pages. In a world that has perfected and glorified the sound byte, nurturing...
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Laureen Simper
Dec 30, 20232 min read
Fighting Lost Causes
"The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle-and not lose it." G.K....
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Laureen Simper
Dec 27, 20232 min read
Waiting for the Miracle
Can you imagine having a government so corrupt, that it has set up ways of knowing your personal religious beliefs and criminalizing...
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Laureen Simper
Sep 13, 202313 min read
Spiritual Confidence
[Originally published November 7, 2015] I had the wonderful experience to speak to a young single adult stake of women this morning. A...
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