by Candace | Jul 17, 2017 | Mormon Principles, Practices & Precepts
If we have a problem with a corporation, we place a phone call to their help center. If the help center can’t help us then we speak to their supervisor . . . and then their manager . . . his upper level manager . . . her vice-president . . . her executive vice...
by Delisa Hargrove | Jul 16, 2017 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? –Sophie Scholl During a recent work assignment, Sophie Scholl’s story entered my life again. A vocal member of the...
by Emlee Taylor | Jul 15, 2017 | Emlee Taylor: Missionary Mom
(*Thoughts from our missionary’s sixteen-year-old sister.*) My brother and I are really close and always have been. We just get each other! I know his raised eyebrow when he’s trying to get me riled up and how he gets really, really quiet when he’s...
by Cindy B | Jul 14, 2017 | Emergency Preparedness
“Now, brethren, I want to make it clear that I am not prophesying, that I am not predicting years of famine in the future. But I am suggesting that the time has come to get our houses in order….That’s all I have to say about it, but I wish to say it...
by Andrya L | Jul 13, 2017 | Home and Family
When I was younger I didn’t find it too hard to make friends. I had a group of close friends who ate lunch together and hung out on Friday nights. And then I had my one or two very best friends. But there are a lot changes when you get married. And even more...
by Walter Penning | Jul 12, 2017 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
For some reason, I have been reminiscing recently with some old songs and artists from my youth: Jim Croce, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Simon & Garfunkel. You may be familiar with them or not–I realize they are ancient. Those musicians still...
by Cindy B | Jul 11, 2017 | Home and Family
How much do you look into your children’s eyes? No, not just glance their way, but actually look deeply into your son’s or daughter’s eyes while talking to them? It seems an odd question, perhaps, but start looking around. Start noticing the...
by Cindy B | Jul 10, 2017 | Home and Family
I remember sitting in the Missionary Training Center (MTC) years ago, listening to a powerful speaker talk about the Bible and its history. I was a new missionary, surrounded by hundreds of other missionaries. One of the church’s leaders (called a General...
by Delisa Hargrove | Jul 9, 2017 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
Paralyzed by the ‘to-dos’, I escaped. The walk along a mountain ridge brought clarity and renewed sense of purpose as the sun burst through the clouds with illuminating morning light. None of the overwhelm had changed. I needed to change that...
by Abby Christianson | Jul 7, 2017 | Abby Christianson: Adventures in Autism
I have struggled to get my son to do anything lately. For some reason the only phrases he seems to remember start with no. No way, no how, no chance. It was getting VERY old, to say the least. He would not leave the house, even to go to church. He seemed...
