The Instructor

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The Instructor was an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1930 and 1970, during which It was the official organ of the LDS Church's Sunday School auxiliary.

The Instructor began publication in 1930, when the Sunday School ceased publication of The Juvenile Instructor, its official publication since 1901. Like its predecessor, The Instructor was targeted primarily at the LDS Church's youth and young adult membership. The first editor of the periodical was George D. Pyper, a member of the general superintendency of the Deseret Sunday School Union.

With the implementation of the Priesthood Correlation Program, The Instructor ceased publication in 1970. Although the Sunday School did not replace it with an official publication, in 1971 the LDS Church began publishing the New Era for youth and the Ensign for adults.

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List of Latter Day Saint periodicals

v • d • e English-language periodicals of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Official (published by the LDS Church or its institutional predecessors)	Evening and Morning Star (1832–1834) • Messenger and Advocate (1834–1837) • The Elders' Journal (1837) • Times and Seasons (1839–1846) • Millennial Star (1840–1970) • Young Woman's Journal (1897–1929) • Improvement Era (1897–1970) • Juvenile Instructor (1901–1930) • The Children's Friend (1902–1970) • Relief Society Magazine (1915–1970) • The Instructor (1930–1970) • Ensign (1971– ) • New Era (1971– ) • The Friend (1971– ) • Tambuli (1977–1995) • Liahona (1995– )

Semi-official (published by an entity owned or controlled by the LDS Church or informally adopted by a church auxiliary)	The Wasp (1842–1843) • Nauvoo Neighbor (1843–1845) • Deseret News (1850– ) • The Seer (1853–1854) • Journal of Discourses (1854–1886) • Juvenile Instructor (1866–1900) • Woman's Exponent (1872–1914) • The Contributor (1879–1896) • Church News (1931– ) • BYU Studies (1959– )

Unaffiliated (published by an entity unconnected to the LDS Church and independent of church support)	Gospel Reflector (1841) • Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1966– ) • Exponent II (1974– ) • Sunstone Magazine (1975– ) • Beehive Standard Weekly (1975– )