by Laurie W | Sep 22, 2008 | Home and Family
It was a defining moment in our recent Sunday School class. We had been talking about the need and value of repentance, of the happiness it can bring to those who come back to the light and love of Christ, of the need to let go of the things of this world, when a...
by Laurie W | Sep 9, 2008 | Home and Family
“But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance” (1 Nephi 1:20). I’ve been thinking about tender mercies a lot lately....
by Laurie W | Aug 22, 2008 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
“It can’t hurt.” “Try it just this once.” “It’s not like taking one drink/puff/shot/etc. will make you addicted.” Heard these phrases before? My husband, a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed the Mormon Church), was directed to put...
by Laurie W | Aug 11, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
116 Pages of The Book of Mormon Lost Back when Joseph Smith, the man who restored Christ’s Church, first started translating the Book of Mormon, his good friend, Martin Harris, began nudging him to take the first 116 pages to show his wife and a few close...
by Laurie W | Aug 4, 2008 | Home and Family
As we traveled in the car one day my 7 year old son asked me, “Mom, are there any guys who used to be bad guys, but then wanted to be good guys, and then became prophets?” Not exactly your average, everyday question. I frantically searched my brain and came up with...
