fasting means to go without food or drink and when fast we must

concentrate on spiritual matters. Prayer is a very important part of

fasting - we should start and stop our fasts with prayer and we should

substitute our eating that we would have done with prayer and with

reading our scriptures. When we fast we should fast with a specific

purpose. An example of this can be found in Mosiah 27:22-23. One

Sunday a month we observe a “fast Sunday” on this day we skip two

meals and donate the value of the meals we have not eaten to the fast

offerings. This is then adminstered to provide for our needy brothers

and sisters through the proper priesthood authority.

Why do we give our fast offerings to the proper priesthood authority

instead of just directly to the people we intend to help?

The most important reason why we fast is Jesus taught us the

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