Every month, we have the opportunity to have a wonderful magazine delivered to our doorsteps. Inside, we can find uplifting and inspiring articles to help us on our spiritual walk. We can read stories of how people applied the gospel in their day-to-day lives. We can find talks to help us with our Sunday School and Relief Society preparation. We can learn about the church around the world.
But there are many things we won’t find in the church magazine. Here are just a few titles that you may as well not send in, since we will never find them in the Ensign or Liahona.
1. How Not Having a Food Storage Saved My Life – A testimonial on one how one family made it through a crisis only because they didn’t have food storage.
2. Why We Would Never Be Sealed in the Temple – The story of a couple who joined the church, received their recommends, and committed to not being sealed together for time and all eternity.
3. Joseph Smith – Plowboy, Not Prophet – A researched study on how Joseph Smith never really left Palmyra, New York but really lived there until he died of old age in 1927.
4. Women of the New Testament Who Didn’t Follow the Savior – Unlike this months issue of beautiful artwork, this composite would include women who heard the Savior, shrugged, and went back to their laundry.
5. The Sandy Foundation is the Best For Me – The apostles teach that you should build your house right down on the beach because, after all, it’s only a short walk to the ocean. And you don’t have to worry about the rock cutting your feet.
6. How to Keep the Spirit Out of Your Life – A list of ways to make sure that you are without the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
7. Reading From Good Books, Not Great Ones – A member testifies how her study of inspirational fiction instead of the scriptures helped make her a better person.
8. The Church Under Czar Nicholas – Okay, so the church wasn’t in Russia at the time, but what would things have been like if it had been?
9. Ways to Make Your Relief Society President’s Calling More Difficult – Have a Relief Society President you can’t stand? Here are some great ways to make sure she asks to be released.
10. Best Places to Vacation During General Conference – There are some great vacation spots available while everyone else is listening to the words of the prophet and apostles. Now you can find them all in one place!
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