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Sophie Jaglowski Runyan
Sophie Jaglowski Runyan

Sophie Jaglowski Runyan is an intern with the Church News. She has worked as a writer/editor with BYU’s Inscape magazine and as a freelance editor for Laundry Services of Idaho. Sophie is an aspiring writer with four novels under her belt and into her third year of her editing and publishing degree at Brigham Young University. She was born and raised in Idaho and served a mission in the Arkansas Bentonville Mission from 2021 to 2023. In 2024, she married the love of her life and now is trying to convert him into a book lover.


This week on social media, President Johnson stressed that “we create the greatest impact through our united efforts,” President Henry B. Eyring promised the Spirit for those who let the Savior in and President Jeffrey R. Holland shed new light on a Kirtland revelation in Doctrine and Covenants.

Church members coordinated efforts to alleviate food insecurity in Texas, address clothing needs in Oklahoma

This week on social media, President Dallin H. Oaks testified of Heavenly Father’s “better plan for His children,” and Elder Quentin L. Cook concluded that “caring for the vulnerable is all of our sacred duty.”

See resources for Elder Steven D. Shumway’s April 2025 general conference message to enrich gospel learning individually and in the home.

Since tornadoes hit the St. Louis, Missouri, area on May 16, Church members and missionaries have been helping with cleanup efforts, assisting local relief efforts and distributing hot meals.

Church members in Korea helped children's centers in their communities, with a food donation and helping with a new heating, air conditioning system.

See resources for Elder Hans T. Boom’s April 2025 general conference message to enrich gospel learning individually and in the home.

Five Kiribati islands have solar-powered desalination plants to bring clean drinking water to villages, through a Church project. More plants are planned to help more islands have clean water.

Latter-day Saints in Phoenix, Arizona transformed their meetinghouse to replicate Christ’s final week on Earth.

Latter-day Saints in Mexico embraced the spirit of Easter through extended temple hours and interfaith events in April 2025.