Teens: A Father Who Doesn’t Give Up

Teens: A Father Who Doesn’t Give Up

June is perhaps one of my favorite months. No, not because school is almost out (hooray!). I love the fact that we get to celebrate fathers. Unlike many in this crazy world, I have been surrounded by good, righteous fathers. My own has always ever been a gentle man,...
Bending the Rules – A Little

Bending the Rules – A Little

It seems that with suggestions of panic, rationing, food shortages, intermingling with war, politics, etc. resounding through news, the interest in being prepared is once again on the rise. Having taught preparedness and written many books about it, I have a firm...
Journals and Histories

Journals and Histories

And it came to pass that the Lord commanded me, wherefore I did make plates of ore that I might engraven upon them the record of my people. And upon the plates which I made I did engraven the record of my father, and also our journeyings in the wilderness, and the...
Doing the Impossible

Doing the Impossible

We have been following the progress of Lehi and his family in our previous posts. Lehi was a prophet who was instructed by God to flee Jerusalem. After he preached repentance to them, his life was in danger. He took his family and only the most essential items and...

Happy Even When Alone

I have two dear sisters who are in their early forties and have never been married. They live together and strive for a measure of happiness and belonging, but nothing can wipe away their deep yearning for a companion of the heart with whom they can share their lives....
Our Lives Have Meaning, Purpose, and Direction

Our Lives Have Meaning, Purpose, and Direction

As daughters of God, “our lives have meaning, purpose, and direction”. (Relief Society Declaration) God loves all of us, His spirit daughters, and has a plan for our lives, a plan of happiness, also known as the plan of salvation. “Questions like, Where did we come...
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